Feature Articles
Mellow yellow
8 May 2012
Rare industrial spec International 454 overcomes a blown gasket and a rotten cab to get a new lease of life...
The trouble with triplets
10 April 2012.
Lambing time is always an amazing opportunity to witness the gift of life; Graham Hampstead tells us of this season’s highs and lows down on the smallholding.
When your ship comes in
13 March 2012.
David McNamee’s thoughts often wandered back to childhood days of driving a tractor until he realised it just had to be a David Brown Cropmaster.
A top notch restoration
14 February 2012.
While some owners retain their tractors in their working clothes, others prefer to spend many hours restoring a machine to the very highest standard. One such owner is Aidan Everard of Baldongan, Co Dublin.
Fordson project reaches maturity
10 January 2012.
In a small village a few miles from Wooler in Northumberland, Alan Barnes indulges in three of his great passions, cheese, ice cream and classic tractors like this 1939 Fordson Standard N.
Single and triple furrows in Athy
13 December 2011.
More classes of ploughing over in Athy, Co Kildare, included the single-furrow, three-furrow and Macra classes at the recent NPA All Ireland Ploughing Championships.
Back to the future
8 November 2011.
When this previously exported Ford 2000 Dexta came back to its country of origin it took a whole load of imports to finish the restoration.
The Great Dorset dust down
11 October 2011.
If the sun shines on the righteous, then this year’s Great Dorset Steam Fair truly was home to the great and the good.
Drazzed for work
13 September 2011.
We take a look at some spring drazzing, a local Yorkshire term for chain harrowing, it also gives us an excuse to see this Field Marshall Series 3 in action.
Play it again, Sam!
9 August 2011.
Sam Weaver might be just 18 – but already he’s making a great name for himself in the skilled business of tractor restoration. Pete Kelly visits mid-Wales to see a brand new generation at work.
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