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saw a picture of one of these brays in a facebook page "hedgerow tractors" not for sale unfortunately .

where and when?

Thanks for the feed back guys. I got the impression that the site is not "manned" I'm after a few larkspur and clansman bits, I was also after a pair of the French sound operated handsets.

Question, either what was the wife doing in your shed? or why did you have truck parts in the bedroom! haha

lovey bit of old school machining.

Has anyone ever been able to buy anything off Army Radio Sales Co ? I've tried in a few occasions and never even had a reply.

the talk of bans are something we are going to see more of, if you keep up with your current politics you will be aware that the far right is making a big come back in Germany and several other countries, and the proposed bans are aimed at them, I'm sure you guys won't want to see the Nazi flag and associated regalia being waved here by a load of guys making Nazi salutes in our streets. our little military vehicle hobby might have to just cover some things up. and any way on a personal level I hate to see people strutting around in SS uniforms etc at show etc. so ban it on public. it won't affect my German vehicles.

I Left School and went to college in the late 80's and they where closing the workshops and converting to what I call " basic DIY skills teaching" we lost the rows of manual lathes, mils, grinders, shapers, forge, hobbers etc, also a couple of years later the cnc mill and lathe, Fanuc robot, hydraulic and pneumatic test rigs, and materials testing labs all went. and I know that all those courses where always over subscribed. it was a policy decision. at the time, Old Hag Maggy had just had her war against the unions and in the process helped kill off more of the heavy industry, and the building trade was seen as the way forward along with the uk being a "service sector economy" I can remember being told at school all those long years ago that in the future we would have more leisure time because everything would be automated and life would be easy. Oh how we laugh looking back! nostalgia ain't what it used to be!

with luck our children will be skilled on computers and high tech equipment and fix them. everything moves on, I bet most of us have no problems with fuel injection systems that our grandfathers would have no idea about.

Isn't the fact that Hydrogen and electric vehicles are quiet and people get run over a lot a bonus? after all the elephant in the room on pollution is really overpopulation, two birds with one stone I say haha

Exactly don't take it too seriously, chill and go with the flow and adapt where you need to. I stand by my bit on education though, if I put an add up for a CNC programmer/machinist, I might get 1 English guy, 5 Polish and the Polish will be more experienced, if I put up an add for a code programmer I will get a dozen English guys and 1 Polish. speaks for itself.

Yes if someone wants it there's a market, and as for old tech and new tech, just take it as it comes and adapt. I love driving my old smoke belching trucks and I equally love working on the latest prototypes of massively powerful tiny light weight electric traction motors. my original soap box moment was about the lack of skills in the up coming generation, and hence the threat to skills for our hobby- our industry- our economy- etc, its all linked.

Things just change too fast these days! I'm not quite middle age yet, I was brought up on a farm with no money so we had to fix things with what was at hand and crack on, I once took a head of a land rover on the side of the road, fixed the gasket with a piece of cardboard and re-filled it with water from the ditch, and that was only 20 years ago, if my 3 year old Mercedes van over heated today I'd call the AA!

I Can also agree with the above thoughts as an engineer, we struggle to get qualified people.( although we have gone off topic) but times are changing and without getting too political, schools have to teach what they are told to and what seems to be the best way to point children's education for the future needs. we have to admit that basic mechanical skills don't fit that as much as they used to, its why we employ a lot of highly skilled eastern European chaps over here as their education better suits what some of us want. As for our hobby, well its up to us to take the time to do that training ourselves as our schools are not going to teach kids how to scrape a bearing in or rebuild a carburettor, when those skills are only about 0.001% of the available future jobs, oh for the old days, I thing my dad and his dad and his dad used to say that to!

Steering Column repaired and re-built, it had lost it's dual steer gears, and the inside looked like it had been under the sea. the lower worm and leaver box had frost damage due to water getting in through the "hole" at the top of the column where the seal and bearings should have been! Now all up and running again. I should have taken more pictures. Fuel system next so we don't have to hang a can on the side with farmers weld then the brakes.

We have two of everything for a reason. one to use and one for spare. Its the bits we only have one of you have to really look out for!!! but personally I like to keep pairs of things as much as possible! haha

When I was a trainee engineer my first machine shop lecturer told us "never put your finger anywhere you wouldn't put your dick" that sound advise has saved me many times. I always pass that though on when ever I spot anyone poking a finger in some dodgy hole!

You can never have too many loaders, the Eager Beaver and Clarke Ranger, couldn't make it to the photo shoot due to being trapped behind an dead Martian

Yes a shame really, its become a "Photo study" good pictures though, and if I wanted to know that much more re-hashed stuff on land rovers I'd buy a land rover mag! I emailed them after a piece they did on a type of vehicle that I have and they said something like " this one had not been seen since" blar blar . so I mailed them quickly to say I have it and it still exists, they messaged back and said thanks, and they they would put something about it in the letters page. Well they did put it in. my exact email spelling mistakes and all! good job I didn't say anything incriminating!! who the hell checks what is published! rant over.

Good pictures, I've been there a few times in the past but never got the chance to sneak any pictures.

So we end up as a society that wants to be independent and have a car rather that use the bus or train and now we are going to hand that independence to a machine? I wish I was a good hacker you could find the cars of people you don't like and lock the doors and drive them off cliffs. I don't want to quote the famous saying but "we are all doomed" haha as a species we are going backwards as tech takes over! as I type this on my laptop!

when I had lots of them I'm afraid to say that's where mine went.

Does anyone have any information on the Bates of Eavesham Diamond T's I own the one on the Front page of the Flickr Diamond T Wrecker page. cheers Richard

I've never seen one of those either. very interesting.

I totally agree, any pictures of plant doing anything are interesting, there is a lack of them on the web. point in case is that Clarke Ranger fork truck of mine I mentioned in an earlier post. its only mentioned about 3 time with 2 pictures on the whole of the world wide web!