The Bernard Saunders Working Day is an event held between Christmas & New Year at Bernard Saunders farm in Nottinghamshire. The Day is a chance for tractor owners to bring there tractor and work it either in the ploughing field or do a bit of cultivating. The event is held to raise money for the Air Ambulance & the Friends of the Air Ambulance held a collection and a Raffle / tombola stall to raise funds.
Exhibits in 2008 included[]
- A Threshing demonstration.
- a restored reaper
- selection of Prairie tractors
- Several Doe Triple D's including Bernards own
- The Martrac DD120 - a custom built equal wheeled 120 hp Fordson Major based machine.
- a selection of Crawler tractors
- County
- Roadless J17 Crawler
- Ferguson with a a Sherman Bros plough
- JCB 1 Digger
- Howard Trencher that had been recently purchased and was being tried out.
Make | Model | Serial no / Reg no. | Owner | Photo | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case | Case 4690 | ? | owner ? | rare articulated Case | |
Caterpillar | Caterpillar D2 | ? | owner ? | Fitted with Marshall Hydraulic service kit | |
Caterpillar | Caterpillar D7 | - | John Walker | Working with a trailed 6 furrow Hexatrac plough. | |
County / Fordson | County Fulltrack | - | owner ? | ploughing | |
County/Fordson | County Fulltrack | TVO 285+ | owner ? | With 6 Furrow Ransomes Hexatrac plough | |
Doe | Doe Triple D | 635 LTM | owner ? | with 4 Furrow reversible plough | |
Doe | Doe Triple D | BNX 232B | Owner ? | Recently restored | |
Field Marshall | Field Marshall 4575 | FNN 508 | owner ? | pulling an timber Drag harrow | |
Ford | Ford Diesel 6000 | ? | Owner ? | US model (unusual in UK) | |
Ford/Steiger | Ford FW-30 | ? | owner ? | Working a 5 (6) leg subsoiler | |
Howard | Trencher | ? | Hardstaff | In full working order | |
International | Super BMD | ASV 183+ | Owner ? | with McCormick plough | |
JCB | JCB 1 Digger | JCB 1 sn A10029-9-63 | Bernard Saunders | Restored classic digger | |
John Deere | 6920S | - | Owner ? | - | |
John Deere | John Deere 3130 | DCL 91T+ | Owner ? | On low loader duty | |
Kohn | Kohn EL201-Rotavator | n/a | - | ||
Oshkosh | Unknown | Q208 PVL | owner ? | Ballast tractor | |
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies | Ransomes C65B cultivator | n/a | ? | Trailed cultivator used behind Roadless Crawler | |
Roadless | Roadless B450 | Roadless no. 3340 | Owner ? | Rare non ford Roadless | |
Roadless / Fordson E1A Major | Roadless J17 Crawler | Roadless no. 6769 | owner ? | With Ransomes C65B cultivator | |
Steiger(Case IH) | Steiger STX 500 | YJ05 OZH+ | Owner ? | Offering rides for Charity | |
Fordson Major | Fordson Triple special | - | Hayward collection | A Doe and a half |
See also[]
- Shows and Meets - Events calendar
- Clubs Listing
References / sources[]
Photos from the 2008 event
External links[]
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