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

The farmer’s friend • It’s our pleasure to showcase a fine example of the MF 165, introduced in 1965 as part of Massey Ferguson’s 100-Series and a worthy successor to the MF 65.

Newark Vintage Tractor Show • A guide to some attractions at this year’s Newark Vintage Tractor and Heritage Show on November 5-6.

YESTERDAY’S FARMING

GDSF HELD OVER TILL 2024

REMPSTONE RALLIES

CHARITY PRESENTATION

Snippets

CHARLES WILKINS SCRAPBOOK • PART THREE: We conclude the story of the Wilkins brothers, told by Charles Wilkins, of the famous Oxfordshire farmers and early preservationists, who collected an array of veteran, vintage, and early classic tractors.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE TRACTOR ENTHUSIAST

RALLY REAWAKENS • The Traction Engine Club of Ulster, Ballee, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, July 15-16.

STRAIGHT AND NARROW • Some 4000 years ago the Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese were already well on their way to creating what we would recognise even today as a rudimentary form of animal-drawn plough.

NICK’S EX-TRACTORS • PART THREE: We take another tour with Nick Baldwin through his encounters with all manner of tractors throughout the years.

ISLAND TREAS URES • Old tractors and implements are beautiful things in their own right, but they are even more special when memories of friends and loved ones are attached to them.

Lister Blackstone Potato Spinner • There were many companies manufacturing potato diggers and spinners, which would lift the potatoes ready for picking. One such company was Lister Blackstone.

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vintage scene

THERE’S THE RUB • Graham Hampstead finally gets the Johnson hoover into working order, but those tatties still need picking.

Lincoln Longwool • Another fact file from the latest listings of native rare breeds held on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watch list.

FORD 4000 CYLINDER HEAD • With oil spitting from this Ford 4000’s exhaust, it’s time for Richard Lofting to get the tractor back in the workshop.

What’s on

TRACTORS TOUR THE HILLS • Road run, Pantycaragle Farm, Beguildy, Sunday, July 31.

TRACTORFEST RETURNS • Biddenden Tractorfest, Holden Farm, Biddenden, August 20-21

Marketplace • The autumn sales season has just been hot, hot, hot in the UK and particularly in the US as well. We look at three significant sales that have just taken place in the US that featured a fine line of veteran tractors that readers just love at TFH.

Sales dates • To avoid disappointment, please check the details listed with the company conducting the sale.

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