What! an orange and white tractor

[Kiwi Kev]

Found this picture of me driving a David Brown 1210 back in November 1979.



This here is the very reason I failed my school exams.
This was actually our neighbours tractor and farm, as we had recently sold our farm. Our old farm can be seen in the background.
I know it's not a Ford or Fordson, but atleast the trailor is blue
Kiwi Kev

[Bensdexta]

Hi Kev,
Than's a nice looking tractor despite the colour, and 4WD too.
Is that Norfolk Is? Looks like nice country

[Kiwi Kev]

Ben
That was back in New Zealand. What you would call 'rolling' country. Hilly and flatish.
It was a nice tractor. Tractor was brand spanking new in the photo too.
Kiwi Kev

[River]

Nice shot,had one similar, two speed pto,12 forward gears (part syncromesh), in some respects, our blue's were playing catch up.

[Pascal]

Great picture, Kev!
What are you harvesting? Did you fed this directly to the cattle, or was it saved for the winter?

[Kiwi Kev]

Great picture, Kev!
What are you harvesting? Did you fed this directly to the cattle, or was it saved for the winter?

Pascal
In this case, it is heaped in a pile on the ground, usually covered and allowed to 'cook', for winter feeding.



This is my brother's contracting business, doing 'our' silage, in what I presume must be approx 1976.
Yes, that is me standing there bare chested



This is my grandfather doing his silage, before I was born. The Nuffield tractor was a 1954? model, and I was born in 1963, so must be sometime between 54 and 62.
He is picking his up with a buckrake.

Kiwi Kev

[henk]

Nice pictures Kev,

And at least there's some orange in it.
One of the first tractor I drove was a white/brown DB. Later on I drove a smaler red/yello DB.

[Dandy Dave]

We had a big concrete bunk Silo on the farm that we put Corn silage in and packed it down for winter feeding. I use to like to run the buldozer, or loader tractor to level and compact it. Dandy Dave!

[JC]

I like the pictures, Kev. Do you have any more?

I have some pictures, somewhere, of me at about that age, but I was running bulldozers and loaders more than farm tractors.

[The Swanndri Guy]

Choice pictures Kev,I guess the background is Kakepuku, looks like its a couple of km down the road from where one of my cousin's used to contract milk about 15 years ago.I go that way quite often as I have family over the next mountain. TSG.