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Nigel has been asking me to find him a plough and today i found this. Its a nice hand operation tool that needs a bit of tlc and some paint, it looks quite old and should help him lose a bit of weight 😀😀😀

I reckon you could have him and Paul bidding against each other for that.

It's a Nigel or Paul ( get you fit ) push plough, not for a tractor to play with.

just watch out paul doesn't stand on it

Yes I pulls a 22ft single axle caravan on grass at idle. great fun!!!!! Just think what I could move if I could find some reduction hubs

The weather was superb today prompting a turn out of some 65 tractors to compete. 6 machines in the horticultural class I went along for fun with the MG40N and a trailed plough just to keep Stormin happy, I really enjoyed it once I had sorted a seized disc swivel. Thanks to Tam Tweedie for the tuition. His MG6 and TS42 plough looked really tidy. Prize for best turn out must go to Norm though the black horse looked spotless and performed really well shame Norman was poorly. The small tractors attracted a lot of interest and showed that they were well able to keep up with the big boys. I was really pleased that I managed to achieve a last furrow for the finish that was straight, parallel and 12" wide but when I tried to plough it out the plough kicked over sideways and missed a bit in the middle.

Its just mind boggling the stuff john has collected over the years, I bet there isn't any where in the country that you could find a collection like john had, the man is a legend.

Oh thanks mate I like that it will go nice behind my grandsons little tractor

Great photos and clearly a good day had by all. Be interesting to see how the ploughing will look at RPT!

Jonathan, (expeatfarmer), asked me if I'd like a trip out to a local scrap/reclaim merchants. Object of the exercise was to see if he could find some pallet racking and have a ratch about. We had a good day and visited two reclaim places and another that sells/breaks mowers etc. Unfortunately no suitable racking was found. But we didn't return empty handed. At the first place I got two short window sash weights to hang on my plough. Nothing at the second, but at the third we both got items. I'll leave Jonathan to say what he got. I got this roller. 10" dia x 37" wide. Will require modifying to make a ballast roller and a frame made. At the place I got the roller, we asked about Wheel Horse wheel weights. "I had some", he said. "But couldn't sell them". "I think I threw them in the scrap, but I'm not sure". We had a search around but no weights to be found. Not surprisingly really, with stuff buried under more stuff. He's going to have a look and let us know if he finds them. Here's hoping.

Thanks kev got it now

Added lights and a jack

Hi all, here are some pics from yesterday and today. 3rd 2nd 1st Winning plot Cheers Stormin, thanks for an enjoyable day.

Looking good !

Hi All It looks as if you all had a good time,nice to share ideas and come away happy if you come in first or last you are all winners and friends to the end Ps Norman You will still need one or two more trips to Scotland to learn the craft Wee tip when ploughing the finish The last four furrows raise the depth inch each time then last furrow make little bit deeper this gives the plough some ground to hold onto and will not slip over as you describe otherwise well done to you all Frae the Fife plooman

Manual? What manual? Wasn't a championship match or a race. Just some simple rules, for simple folk to enjoy the day.

A great video Duncan I was watching it thinking I've seen it before on YT, then I had a look at your YT page and thought I know that user name... Thanks for subscribing to my channel

That's a handy sized tipping trailer.

I did indeed enjoy the day. It was grand off the Scots lads to come down. Especially all the way from Perth. They were good company and helpful. I'll say nothing about them going home with arms full of raffle prizes. Bit like the Border Reivers of old. Some more photo's. My split. Tam. (Ransomes Plooman.

Some photo's. Many thanks to Tam and Madjock for valuable advice and assistance.

Jonathan's being modest. He's not letting on he came first in class after Tam (Ransomes Plooman) gave him some tuition. Tam came second and says that he's telling Jonathan now more. I'll put a report and some photo's up later.

Thanks mate.. Well, you know what they say about blokes and instructions........ Today my mission was to get my blast cabinet working which meant sorting out the dust extraction once and for all.. After drilling a big hole and a couple of bolt holes in the side of the cabinet, I bolted this filter on that had been kicking about for years... It did come with the blast cabinet which I found a bit strange as the only "hole with bolt holes" was way bigger with 3 not 2 bolt holes.... So it got wrapped up in a random bit of paper and stuffed in a draw until today.. On the inside I folded up this cover to stop the inside of the filter from getting blasted away.. It was whilst bolting the inside cover on that I noticed this strange box like thing at the back of the cabinet under the light! Can you guess what's behind it? As it happens the space behind the cabinet is so tight the filter wouldn't of been able to let any air in anyway, so it kinda all worked out for the best! Oh... And the random bit of paper the filter was wrapped in all those years ago... Were the instructions! A few of the bits that have been blasted and coated in the red stuff.. As WN's dash panel had started to rust under the clear coat, it got blasted and hit with clear again.. It's a bit hard to make out but it almost looks like metallic silver only with more metallic showing.. Get it in the right light and it almost sparkles..