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Very happy to hear from you, my sister & her husband Jimmy McWhir & my father Geordie Ritchie worked on this farm, all the cows were in 3 byers & milked with a pipeline system, The farmers name was John Mackie, this was 50 years ago 🐄🐄🐄
The buckrake should be on the front linkage of the tractor with a weight block on the back linkage and the driver will not need to look backwards all the time and they will have no stiff neck afterwards
Can you tell me if the McKune family farmed there? My late mother Jane Mckune was born in Ruthwell in 1917, she was one of fifteen in the family who farmed there. The farm was on the Solway but I don’t know the name.
I asked Roy Broach the farmer I worked for at Thwaite Farm Ruthwell. This was his reply. My great grandfather moved to Thwaite in 1877 , I have no record of previous tenant; however I believe that the McKune family farmed at Ladyhall Ruthwell before moving to Slethat Farm near Mouswald. Best Regards George T Ritchie
Thanks for the message my wife is now at home but she has to go back on Tuesday to have gallbladder drain removed & hopefully the pacemaker fitted the following Tuesday 😊
I don’t expect that the MF 165 has been started for a while 🤷♀️my wife has been very ill 🤒 with her gallbladder infection Waiting for a pacemaker to be fitted when she’s strong enough 🤔
They are so bad....been at that hotel for 40 years plus ..entertaining!!!..we saw them many moons ago.. in the better days of the royal .Time for retirement I think..
@gtritchie5 my wife an myself used to go before shearing got there hands on it....buffett breakfast, comfy and warm, now I'm afraid it's all too a budget, we still go back to whitby but not at the royal,but we do call for a drink when passing..
That Case IH Optum 250 was bought new by a farmer near me in County Durham from JG Paxtons. It was traded in for a 23 plate Claas 830 Axion last season. He also had a 22 reg Case IH Puma 240 but last harvest season he was using a 14 plate Claas 810 Axion. Case backup mustn't be as good as Rickerby's. Also, Bowburn (Rickerby) is closer to us than Pity Me (Paxtons) is.
@gtritchie5 I was surprised to see the sudden change to Claas machinery . Spring cultivations should be underway here soon once the land dries out. I'll see what machinery he's got this year as one of his bigger fields is behind my house. He may still have the Puma as I haven't seen that on Paxtons or Rickerbys website for sale yet.
I remember going to Annan with my parents when I was young in the late 60s/ early 70s and looking through the gates of Rickerby (it was down a side street off the main street on the right hand side) and seeing the new tractors then which were probably an International 434 and later a John Deere 20 series with a Duncan cab. It probably started my lifetime interest in tractors and reading your comment I can picture them as if it was yesterday!
Yes it was Oppisite Corner House Hotel down Lady ST, Offices, Showroom and Workshops ,Rickerbys were partners with Duffs our Boss Wullie Duff had an Ironmongers shop on the High ST I remember the day in the late Sixties when one of the Rickerby brothers, i think it was Joe Rickerby ,was Killed in a Car Smash returning from a Exhibition abroad, the Driver was Wullie Duff!!@@davidwinthrop7077
