For the past 25 years Rotac Farms, Norwich, owned an old Fordson Super Major which was coupled to a winch.

Farm manager Graham Bunn says that the unit had served the farm well hauling out tractors and harvesters four times its own power with ease.

Until the contract carrot harvester arrived…

Having warned the gang of a “soft area” in the field, the inevitable phone call came, “can we borrow the winch?”

The poor old girl did her best but evidently it wasn’t enough and the front end kept lifting off the ground.

The operator thought it would be a good idea to put a 150 hp tractor on the front to hold her down.

Faithful to the end she pulled and pulled and… Eventually something had to give…

Such devotion, R.I.P. says Graham!

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