Feature Articles
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.
Big, red and bouncy or… Canadian hybrid
12 July 2011.
Sought after now, but the Massey-Harris 744D was a commercial failure – why?
Peter Henshaw tracks down a Somerset-based example with a long family history, to illustrate the point.
The wraps are off at last!
10 May 2011.
With the owners now in a position to take delivery of the Allis-Chalmers ED-40, Ben Phillips can finally get round to completing that restoration.
No room to swing a Massey
12 April 2011.
Space was at a premium for Andrew Mason’s first restoration, a 1970 Massey Ferguson 165 – but what a superb piece of work he’s done.
Allis well that ends well
8 March 2011.
Last time we met Bob Griggs was back in Tractor, issue 73, with his superbly restored ex-Kent County Council Ferguson; here is his latest restoration, a 1964 Allis-Chalmers ED-40.
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