Collect our free tractor posters
Collect our free tractor posters
Ever admired farmers weeklys tractor posters on
a neighbours farm office wall? Well, youll soon have
your own, as were giving them away free in the issues
of June 8, June 15 and June 22
GIVEN the way things are in farming at the moment, its particularly pleasant to be able to wallow in a little harmless nostalgia for happier farming eras. And what better way to do that than by having a farmers weekly tractor poster on your wall. We suggest the farm office (or maybe even the downstairs cloakroom), but if you want to jazz up the living room or marital bedroom, far be it from us to stand in the way.
There are three posters to collect:
Tractors of the 1930s and 1940s
For anyone in their 60s or over, this will probably bring a tear to the eye and lump to the throat. There are some well-known machines among the 22 here, like the everlasting Ferguson 20 (hundreds of which still seem to be happily at work around the UK to this day), the Fordson Model N, Nuffield Universal and David Brown Cropmaster. Prepare yourselves for some oddities, too, like the 8hp carthorse-rivalling Opperman Motocart and the 1936 Ransomes MG2 which used a Sturmey-Archer (of bike gear fame) petrol engine. Not to mention the 1943 German Lanz tractor which ran on gas from heated wood chippings.
Tractors of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
You may not see many cars of this era around on the roads (most having rusted away a long time ago), but when it comes to tractors its a different matter. Who, hand on heart, can deny that, somewhere around the farm, they have a Fergie 35 or Ford 3000 that would need only a freshly-charged battery and a cursory wipe of the seat to be ready to do another couple of decades of muckscraping or bale-carting?
Remember the Trantor, that curious (though effective) hybrid between tractor and Land Rover? And what about the Doe Triple D, a wonderfully clever grafting-together of two Fordson Power Majors to produce a 100hp, 4wd tractor at a time when such things were decidedly rare? And the 600hp six-wheel-drive Big Roy, which was so long it had to have a camera at the back and TV screen in the cab for reversing?
We could go on. Suffice to say that theyre all there, all 22 of them, in glorious Technicolor.
So look out for your free tractor poster in the FW issues of June 8, June 15 and June 22.
Current Tractors
Much as we love the old faithfuls, it would not have been right to ignore the current crop of tractors at work around Britains fields and farmyards. So here they are in all their mud-spattered glory, from a 70hp livestock tractor ideal for yard work to a 360hp behemoth the size of a suburban semi.
There are 20 tractors here, representing the main makes available on the UK market. So look out for familiar favourites like New Holland, Deere, Massey, Case and JCB, as well as Continentals like Renault, Fendt, Deutz, Same and Valmet and East Europeans like Belarus and Zetor.