Black Sheep Blog

Another one for you tractor enthusiasts.

While truck-testing in Germany last week one of our fellow journalists from sister magazine Commercial Motor came across this unusual three-wheeled tractor parked up against a fence on a redundant US Air Force base.

The name that appears on the bonnet is Pekazett.

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Stumbled across this on youtube - it's about 17secs footage of a walking "tractor" apparently built by John Deere.

Don't know much about it or what it might be used for, but it's quite cool.

Anyone know anything more about it? Tell me ...

Had these images sent in from Ben Parsons from Leominster and couldn't help but laugh.

The story goes that Ben and his brother bought their dad an old Fergie 2 furrow plough for a Christmas present this year on the internet,

It was delivered to Ben's house. However he found the thing a tad difficult to move on his own, so telephoned a friend to ask him if I could borrow a tractor for the afternoon to move the plough to their father's house.

The friend kindly agreed, so off went Ben to pick up the tractor only to discover that it was a great big Fendt 926!

Well, it should fit they thought, and it did, but with a comedy looking outcome!

The wind power debate rages on in the FWi forums - such is the passion the subject cooks up that at times tempers have threatened to boil over.

Because of the subject's prominence in our users' minds - Mr News picked this out as his Window on the Web feature this week. It's only 9 secs but still looks impressive:

Top Gear may have Ferrari's, Jag's and crazy stunts involving middle-aged men but here at the Black Sheep we have tractors!!!

Machinery Editor's friend sent us this clip of a tractor doing an unsual trick; producing a wheelie that i could never do on my Hedgehopper Raleigh bike!

FWi would like to recommend not trying this at home. For one thing you will probably get your prized tractor stuck in a cake load of mud!!

Ever wondered what you have to do to get a JCB Groundhog out of the mud? Well let us show you how not to do it, as Mr Machinery hilariously shows. We are attempting to create a record of YouTube views from the Farmers Weekly collection,so why not pass this link on to your friends.To comment, or to pass this video on, why not look at it on YouTube.

Mr Machinery editor has been sent this picture; proof that everyman needs a good woman on his side:

Within the Farmers Weekly collection on YouTube, there have been two videos that have created more debate than when Mr Food Chain said that Days of Thunder was better than Top Gun (which it blatantly isn't).