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Old 12th October 2012, 06:40 PM
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Purely as a point of interest, which ploughed the field the best, Internal Combustion Tractor or Steam Ploughing Engines?
A couple of photos here for you to judge for yourself, although maybe your decision is best kept private. Personally I always prefer steam ploughing but that's because I prefer to watch steam engines.



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Old 12th October 2012, 07:33 PM
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Hi Colin, thanks for the photos. My two grandchildren and myself had a debate on the way home as to which produced the best furrow. We both felt that the best result was by steam, however, there was quite a wide strip at either side of the field which could not be ploughed due to the presence of the engines.
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Hi Colin, thanks for the photos. My two grandchildren and myself had a debate on the way home as to which produced the best furrow. We both felt that the best result was by steam, however, there was quite a wide strip at either side of the field which could not be ploughed due to the presence of the engines.
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The headland would have been ploughed directly.
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A couple of photos here for you to judge for yourself, although maybe your decision is best kept private. Personally I always prefer steam ploughing but that's because I prefer to watch steam engines.



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Old 13th October 2012, 07:35 PM
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On reflection maybe the two photos were not representative as the steam ploughed section had been cultivated in the photo shown.
If Tom would like the photo of his tractor, pm me his e-mail address and I'll send him one.
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Old 14th October 2012, 08:39 AM
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to be fair the cornish maid and sister wendy did a fairly good job of ploughing trying to get to there respected machines and line up ! probably not the best area to do this as its the paddock where the point to point horses do there parading !! never mind all sorted with the aid of new piece of kit from bamfords !
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Very good write up and pics in this months VS, thanks John,

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Old 16th October 2012, 12:03 AM
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Very good write up and pics in this months VS, thanks John,

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I will second that, thanks John
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Old 12th November 2012, 12:15 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-tdSAyZpo

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Old 12th November 2012, 03:56 PM
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Thanks for posting vid, great to see in black and white, but them well washed overalls still show as almost white !!!!!!! More than a month ago, who would of thought that ?

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