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Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:19 am
by SteveM
finishing off last winters mucking out and noticed my initials cast into the concrete block we cast in april 1977. guessing its probably the piece of equipment thats been here longest.
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:28 am
by Jac
A 1946 pre-production grey Fergie.
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:29 am
by Rob R
Our loader tractor is one of the older pieces, a grey gold ferguson that is about 60 years of age and still going strong after being rescued from the nettles in the mid-nineties.
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:35 pm
by Saffy
quote="SteveM"[finishing off last winters mucking out and noticed my initials cast into the concrete block we cast in april 1977. guessing its probably the piece of equipment thats been here longest.]
When I was a little girl there was a man worked for my parents called Bert leader, he put his initials in the concrete on a windowsill in the stables - they are still there and I smile when I see them. He was a lovely man, good with children, a family friend and my Godfather. I remember that if I was very well behaved I was allowed to roll a cigarette for him with a little metal machine he had, this was before I started school and for me it was magic! I am now 57.
Stephanie
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:22 pm
by nuttalls
my mum, not equipment but was a workaholic till she was 84 and is now buried on our home farm
jean
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:21 am
by Saffy
A lovely resting place Jean....doesn't sound like work harmed her either!
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:21 pm
by sheila sykes
tThe oldest thing on our farm is Geoff age 72 still looking after our dexters with his 1963 Massey fergie which he was brought up on when he left school
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:25 pm
by ann
Possibly my hay fork which came from my home, I do have my Dad's leaving home box which he gave me to use as a show box he left home to start work at 14 in 1928, not sure if this counts.
Re: Whats the oldest piece of equipment on the farm
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:50 pm
by Louisa Gidney
An old railway goods waggon body used as a shed. It's a year younger than I am, but older than Ann!