Tractor & Machinery

Trencher’s transformation

The road that led Geoffrey Mark to ownership of this beautiful County Super Six is a long and winding one, so he started its story at the very beginning. “My first experience of the Ford stable was my father’s 1942 Standard N,” he told me. “He owned a smallholding when I was growing up, with ten suckler cows and the calves all taken through to finished beef. He made hay and grew a few spuds.

“He had a Cockshutt two-furrow, 10-inch plough, but most of the machinery had been horse-drawn and then converted to fit the tractor drawbar. For making hay there was a cutting bar, a Blackstone tedder, which was a dangerous-looking piece of kit, and a Nicholson side rake. It was basic stuff.

“When I was a young boy I remember there was a particularly good crop, which

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