docsquid Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I've been a bit tentative when learning to drive our tractor (a 35 year old Massey Ferguson 188). I'm now OK when I've got plenty of room to drive it around and do some of the mowing, but any precision work, I get off and DH does the driving. Anyway, today I had to help him lift a water tank off a pallet, put it into the trailer and take it home to be washed out. And I did a lot of quite precise driving and using the hydraulics to lift things up and down... ...and then I put the tractor away in the barn building!!! I've never dared do anything like that before. There is very little clearance for the large back wheels on either side of the door. DH had tears in his eyes he was so proud! Of course that probably means I'll have to do a lot more tractoring in future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Well done you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Well done not sure I'd want to try it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker Chick Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Very well done......and very brave You must be feeling very proud of yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 congratulations Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Excellent stuff! My loved one is very, very jealous of your 35 year old Massey Ferguson 188. He really, really wants one too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 Excellent stuff! My loved one is very, very jealous of your 35 year old Massey Ferguson 188. He really, really wants one too! It's a 188 Multi-Power with front loader, for tractor geeks. We were extremely lucky to get it from a farm auction within 10 miles of home, and so could drive it back. It was covered with 25 years' worth of cow poo, and took a fair while to restore, but it is worth its weight in gold now! Here is DH clearing brambles using the tractor. It isn't a fab picture because it was taken on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Well done Looks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Very Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick wiggle Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Ooooo, I am so jealous!!!! I would lurrrrrrrrve to drive that ! Well done you though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenNutter Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Aaaagh! That brings back happy memories of learning to drive a tractor at the county Teaching Farm in oxfordshire in 1984. I did my college test on a Massey Fergusson (or the Morphy Richards as my sloane ranger friend from London kept on calling it by mistake). I had to back one with a trailer attached out of a barn, but the gear k"Ooops, word censored!" was loose, and had swivelled round 180 degrees. I just managed to stop it before it ploughed through the back wall of the barn. D'oh! Happy Days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Your own tractor?! And it's RED?!?! Oh my gosh, I am insanely jealous. Your own tractor! And it does the put-put along thing and the lifty thing and the pokey thing and you can do everything in it yourself including tiny space parking and.... wow. I really really love tractors. Honestly. Ask the craft weekend at Omletina's mob. BTW - Who else has a tractor on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 We have - an ancient small Iseki.....but it has no wheels at the moment after one fell off! - we're trying to get them repaired. I posted photos a while ago and asked for names - it was a choice in the end between Eric (Morecambe) or Vic (Reeves) - we call it Vic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenanne Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 My dad has.... does that count? A little old red Massey too, but not the same model as that one. He inherited from a friend locally, and it's a bit of a death trap: if you put too much weight in the front it does wheelies and threatens to tip over. Something to do with an old axle design, but don't ask me the details. He had an old yellow dumper-truck in the pre-tractor days (I imagine it was a freebee) which had no brakes. You had to stop it by jumping off and putting blocks under the wheels. Fortunately I still have all limbs remaining.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Well done, Docsquid, I'm impressed!! As many on here already know, we have a tractor, Erik is a 1971 David Brown 990 Selectamatic....in fact quite a few people on here have actually driven him, including A chickychickychick-ENN!! - hubby was showing her how to use the clutch etc. and said "it's just like driving a car really" - at this point she said "I've never driven a car"....his face was a picture, as she pootered away into the distance on his beloved tractor, which had taken 18 months to restore.... She looked after it very well though, and I don't think I've ever seen such a big smile as she came towards us! Here he is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Wow, that is some beautiful tractor! I mustn't show DH or he will Get Ideas. OTOH that might be a way to persuade him to let me keep the chickens in the garden and not at the wood Ours is used regularly for woodland activities so doesn't look so pristine. Not sure if DH would let me drive it if he didn't already know I can drive a car and motorbike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 This is Vic..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Erik!!!! Mon amour!!!! Hellooooo beautiful! I miss you!!!! Vic is very sweet too, but I'm already taken. Omletina, I HAD driven a car before. I drove an automatic round a sheep farm this very summer. I managed to three point turn AND stall it. It's all experience! Just because it didn't have those gear thingies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 The varying shades of green my loved one turns at each new photo is incredible. He has gone off in a sort of huff to watch the F1 qualifying. He really, really wants an old tractor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 The varying shades of green my loved one turns at each new photo is incredible. He has gone off in a sort of huff to watch the F1 qualifying. He really, really wants an old tractor Well don't tell him that DH is down at the woods at the moment driving ours then! Old tractors are rather addictive. We have a new gadget arriving for ours on Monday and he is very excited about it (a rotavator to prepare areas of soil for sowing as wildflower meadows and accidentally preparing a potato patch!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henriette Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 No, I don't think I will tell him I am afraid he will just have to be satisfied with our lawn tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 My OH has yet to let me drive the sit on mower even though I think I would have no problems. I think he feels it is his domain. I am so jealous of the tractor - my dad has always wanted one and I think it rubbed off on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
