Tractor & Farming Heritage

Tractor & Farming Heritage magazine celebrates the development of the farm tractor from its historical roots, right up to the present day. Presenting an unrivalled combination of in-depth technical features along with monthly news and reports on developments within the industry. Tractor & Farming Heritage is aided by an expert team and enthusiastic contributors – transporting readers back to days gone by, while keeping them up to date with spectacular restoration projects. Meet the owners and restorers and discover all the latest from vintage and modern scenes. Led by an expert team of enthusiast contributors, Tractor transports readers back to days gone by, while keeping them up to date with spectacular restoration projects. All this is topped off with a burst of in-depth technical features and monthly reports on the many developments in the tractor and farming machinery world.

Welcome

Tractor & Farming Heritage

Contributors this issue

A winning combination • We visit an avid collector of all kinds of vintage farm machinery and three standout examples of vintage Case tractors - models D, LA and 500.

A SQUARE DEAL • This enthusiast began “playing at haymaking” but his hobby became more serious when he started planting a specialist variety of wheat which now supplies local thatchers with straw.

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LADIES’ TRACTOR ROAD RUN

MORE TRUST IN BRITISH FARMING

WORLD-CLASS SHOW

BLUE FORCE BASH

Snippets

TRACTOR FEST FINEST • Tractor Fest attracts more annual visitors in 2022 than it ever has since its illustrious career started in 2007.

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THE FORDSON THAT WASN’T • We investigate a Ford 5000 Diesel - a rare sight to these shores, although it was built in Dagenham.

FOREIGN FIELDS • Our well-travelled correspondent, Nick Baldwin, recalls some of the tractors he has encountered whilst in the continental climes.

GET AKTIV • Gerry Matthews tells us how a childhood experience over 50 years ago influenced the recent restoration of a trailed combine.

FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF BURDEN • We have a strong sense of nostalgia for horses. But there was another draught animal that has played an even larger, or certainly longer, role in our rural history - the ox.

The Salopian Manure Cart • This manure cart was just one of the many products by the Salopian Cattle Bowl Company, which was once a groundbreaking company in cattle management.

LETTER OF THE MONTH Hay making old style •  We want your news, views, and pictures: Write to us at Tractor & Farming Heritage, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL or email tony.hoyland@kelsey.co.uk

SAFETY REMINDER

RALLYING AT WHITE PINE

A STRING OF GOOD LUCK • A series of fortunate events during haytime leave Graham Hampstead worrying about what lies in store next.

Hackney Horse and Pony • Another fact file from the latest listings of native rare breeds held on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watch list.

FITTING A TRAILER TIPPING PIPE • It’s a straightforward job, but Richard Lofting finds some complications along the way.

What’s on

BESIDE THE SEASIDE • Welsh National Tractor Road Run 2022, Rhos-on-Sea, June 19

VALE VINTAGE SHOW

HUNTON GATHERING

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