Joining two hobbies

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Well done you looks great

[Buster121]

Brilliant Muzza, I love it mate I like the little grey Ferguson tractor too

It looks a bit like a grey Fergy, but it's actually a 1940's Duetz. It was the best I could find in 0 scale.

We had an old grey Fergy T40 on the farm at Arundel when I worked for the Duke of Norfolk. It had the calf crate on the back and was used for moving calves around or getting them in from the fields when first born. We used to have to leave it on a slope though so that we could bump start lol. My eldest son started his driving of tractors on this when he was just 3 years old. I would go into the calving field and pick up a newly born calf. I would then point the tractor towards the gate way, put it on tick over and sit Shane in the tractor seat. With no power steering it didn’t move off line much but he would keep it straight. I would then walk behind with the calves mother following the tractor. As we got to the gate way I would jump back on the tractor just to get it through the gate. Not sure about health and safety though lol.

Good old days that we will never get back

[Buster121]

As I mentioned, my other bad habit is model trains.
The Australian magazine, Narrow Gauge Down Under, offered a small 4 wheel flat car free to any readers who wanted to "kit bash" it into something.
So I did. 008.JPG
It's a mobile pigeon loft!
The idea came from the mobile lofts on busses and lorries during WW1. This has a different back story that I made up, but it marries up the trains with the pigeons neatly.

There's a laugh. My little mobile pigeon loft was awarded the prize for the best and most original entry. I was quite chuffed

Congratulations Murray well deserved