Classic Silage - 7740, 6640, 4610 - Mighty Ford/New Holland Fleet

[@davidwinthrop7077]

Oh what a fantastic video! A silage field full of classic Fords! Very rare to see one 2wd 40 series working never mind two and they’re blue roof NH badge examples too. Can’t remember last time I seen an LP cab Ford 4610 pulling silage trailers, looks great on those 16.9/30 tyres too. 4wd Ford 7740 completes the picture! Absolutely brilliant!

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed it! This was one of the highlights of our collection so far. Seeing anything 2WD is unusual these days on a harvester. The wee 4610 tops it for me, just something so different.

[@crimsonsunshine264]

2wd foraging reminds me of that Fiat nr you David 👍

[@davidwinthrop7077]

@@crimsonsunshine264 Ah yes, remember it well. The 2wd 100-90 is still on the farm but since they got a bigger forager it’s now been demoted to rowing up. Pity because it was a great chopping tractor. Cheers, David.

[@kennethhudson9568]

Wow wow that’s amazing video no massive payments there

[@Warbs76]

Great video of some very tidy classics in action! Makes a change seeing grass being picked up in single rows and raked up into massive swaths ready for a self propelled

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed it, there's plenty of the big stuff around these parts but have no interest filming it. Blink and you miss it anyway and everything's done in a few hours

[@williamjohnston3559]

What a brilliant video. It's like being back in the 90's 😊. It doesn't get better than a field of old school ford's and new hollands , a trailed class chopper and seeing a fraser trailer still working 💯👍👍

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed it! Please subscribe for plenty more old school videos coming.

[@johndavison7441]

Pure class. The 4610 is unbelievable. Good work👍

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks a lot! Loved the 4610 too, the real highlight.

[@greengrass6340]

Nice trailers

[@OldSchoolNI]

@@greengrass6340 always like a nice Fraser, especially with something blue in front

[@donnellykieranj]

The 4610, was there a more capable tractor for its size ever built? I think not. Pure gem of a wee tractor.

[@OldSchoolNI]

Yes totally loved seeing this one. Just seeing the old stuff still doing proper work is brilliant.

[@IanGray-dy9pt]

Lovely clean grass not full of stones and covered in earth from raking. Excellent video.

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching. Plenty more old school fleets coming soon.

[@oldschoolfarmer7610]

Great video. Brings back memories of the days I chopped with a 7610 and jag60. If Tom Pemberton had this outfit chopping his grass, he wouldn't have chewed his fields up!

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks for watching! What was the 7610 - 2WD or 4? They are worth some ££ these days.

[@oldschoolfarmer7610]

@OldSchoolNI Both, originally an 1984 2wd with an AP cab and later a 4wd 85 model with SQ cab ( which we still have!)

[@TechnoMoffat]

What a video, some great 40 series examples there. Lucky find.

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed it, still some great old school fleets on the go.

[@adriangreen6675]

Wow! Took me back 30 plus years when I was driving a Ford 7740SL with a Claas Jaguar 60 on silage making. Brilliant video got to be one of best this year

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks very much - triggering memories of the good old days is why we do this! Feel free to share with others who would enjoy our channel. Did you drive 2wd or 4wd?

[@adriangreen6675]

It was a 4wd, a replacement for a Leyland 802

[@OldSchoolNI]

Nice, I've footage coming soon of a Marshall 802 at silage last year

[@adriangreen6675]

Looking forward to seeing it

[@ballyhoulihanagrivideos397]

Smashing video. The 7740 seems to be well able for the chopper.Probably helped by the set up of the Claas

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed - it definitely seemed well setup, was going really well.

[@kenwood8665]

Beautiful machine.That was a Brilliant video

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks, a lovely setup!

[@tonymckeage1028]

great Video thanks for sharing

[@OldSchoolNI]

@@tonymckeage1028 thanks for watching!

[@deutzd30fahrer.]

Ein sehr schönes Video wurde hochgeladen.👍👍👍💪 Grüße aus der Schweiz 🇨🇭

[@OldSchoolNI]

Danke fürs zuschauen!

[@MBSnapper]

The best silage video I've seen in a while, beautiful well kept classics doing a mighty job. Thanks for sharing.

[@OldSchoolNI]

Glad you enjoyed it! It's one of the best setups we've seen in a while too. A lot of narrow roads and gates around here means there's always a place for the old trailed harvesters.

[@paulthompson8467]

Brilliant video very tidy machinery we have a 7740sle 2wd withe the older white roof bought her new from Burke's they're a great machine very reliable we have a7610ap too that wee 4610 is very tidy she's punching well above her weight towing that big trailer 👍

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks as always Paul - 4610 was definitely unexpected! Seeing the 2 x 40 series together was like something off a promotional leaflet from the 90s.

[@crimsonsunshine264]

That 7740 is running well on the forager, it must be low hours or fairly new, there's no smoke coming out of it whatsoever, just a nice heat haze! ..... No need for adblu! Lovely to see this set up thanks for posting

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks for watching! We love seeing this sort of fleet too. Not sure on the hours but very well looked after. A real highlight of the year for us.

[@andyt2704]

Great video the Fraser is a peach 👌👌

[@OldSchoolNI]

It sure is! Love a good Fraser. The green with blue always a good looking combination

[@CédricLauvaux]

Beautiful video

[@OldSchoolNI]

Thanks for watching. Please subscribe for more content coming soon!

[@CédricLauvaux]

@@OldSchoolNI Ok thank you I subscribed kisses nice

[@265justy]

The mighty little 46....

[@OldSchoolNI]

Your right, a beauty! Really nice to see something like that still doing a job

[@265justy]

@@OldSchoolNI Had a 4600 Fritzmeier cab and 4000 Fieco cab years ago. They were powerful performers for their size back in the day.. 4610 here is alittle Gem..

[@johnplatt8369]

One of the best classic vlogs I have seen if not the best. 7740 chopping and going very well. But can you tell us why do you not have the four wheel drive 7740 on the chopper? Is it just the two wheel drive has a bit more grunt !!!!!!

[@OldSchoolNI]

@@johnplatt8369 thanks very much! One of the nicest weve seen too. 4wd was a neighbour helping out just.

[@jonathangreenwood6379]

The 7740 makes it look easy on class chopper

[@OldSchoolNI]

Sure does! Seems to be fit for it alright.

[@alanchatfield4271]

I would pay money to see the 4610 on the claas

[@OldSchoolNI]

I'm sure that could be arranged for next cut! :)

[@alanchatfield4271]

Well I don't know how I could go about payment, depending on how close you are maybe go for a drink and cash in pocket 🤣,,,, was the hill behind in the distance the black mountains by any chance

[@thomaskilpatrick8531]

I have a similar age 4610 albeit with a high roof otherwise same cab and door configuration, i would live to see this one up close as i am overhauling my cab and would like to see how that one turned out. I also have a 7740 white roof with 34 inch rear rims sporting 2 steps to the cab these 2 can be rarer than 38 and 3 steps

[@OldSchoolNI]

Lovely, they are a great wee tractor. Thanks for watching!

[@alanchatfield4271]

This is how it should be done,, more equipment more jobs more flexibility for you to go when you need to, costs down and fun up,,, things have gone to gay, fuck the 800hp self propelled that costs half a million pounds, a good 100 hp for 20k or less is more my style , ,

[@OldSchoolNI]

Very true sir, wild money involved and there's much less appeal to video that stuff. I'd take this fleet any day of the week. This was proper old school where neighbours help each other. The best.

[@Andy-ix2ox]

Brings me back forty years when we spent all summer cutting silage, then things just kept getting bigger, we picked up 500 acres in two and a half days this may and gave the contractor enough money to buy a whole set up like this and will have to give him the same again before the year is out. I would love to be back at it again but it’s all about time and we haven’t got enough as it is, back then we would give this lad and that lad a dig out when something broke and they would come to our rescue when we were in bother, now the contractor arrives with a couple of million quids worth of gear and his own diesel lorry and does in an hour what we might have done in a very long,very good day. Maybe we have all gone too big, too much stock, too big of machines and far to much debt, back in the day if you wanted a new tractor you bought it and payed for it now they want us to buy everything on the never never( more tax efficient they say) but it means you can buy stuff that you may not really need just because you can. Back in the day you only bought a 4wd if you were going to plough the side of a mountain or a bottomless bog , 2wd would do the job 99% of the time and did. For Pete’s sake our scraper tractor is 4wd , total over kill but it’s old and worth very little and it does the job and it is not really worth replacing it with a 2wd more sensible one because that’s going to be an expensive replacement, so it can work away until it dies! Thinking about it, it might not be to long until it has to be replaced she clocked up 25000 hours over the weekend !

[@alanchatfield4271]

@@Andy-ix2ox yea I understand, the chap I work for has some nice kit, but even now with tractors that would boss a week of lifting grass he still gets the self propelled contractor in 🤣,, he has a 4x4 on a scraper also 😜,,, and X2 jd 6215R's, it's like driving a big ride on lawn mower I tell him... Nothing like the old days of a nice tw15 or a Renault 145-14 etc etc,, god I miss it so badly,, but yea time is money and if you really want to get on then sadly the bigger newer kit is a must,, back in the day accros 1000 acres you would have had 7 farms, now it's about 1 to 2,,, and even then it's not easy to make it work,, it's gone mad