Ferguson on the Farm: Part 1
Published on 30. October 2001
Video
VHS video
978-1-903366-19-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work concludes with potato lifting, disc ploughing, earth-moving and work with the Ferguson reversible plough, leaving a companion programme to look at other winter and spring activities. The majority of the implements are from Harold Beer's working collection in North Devon and many were bought new. A range of Fergies provide the power, one of them still at work on the family farm where it was first used in 1949. The programme has a full commentary scripted by Stuart Gibbard, author of "The Ferguson Tractor Story". The narrator is BBC broadcaster and tractor enthusiast David Holt.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Fox Chapel Publishers International
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Duration
Dauer: 60 min
Weight
87 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903366-19-6 (9781903366196)
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Harold Beer runs Great Shortridge Farm at Warkleigh, near Umberleigh in North Devon jointly with his two brothers, Anthony and Fred. The 600-acre farm in the Taw Valley ranges from deep alluvial soil at the bottom to thin, stony ground on the hilltops. The Beer brothers run a dairy herd with 60 milkers, a beef unit, 750 Mule ewes and they grow cereals, potatoes and rootcrops. Harold's father was a devotee of Ferguson tractors and equipment, buying and using many of the examples shown in the video. Harold has always shared this enthusiasm and is joined in this by his wife, Eileen; together they are Devon (North) area representatives for the Ferguson Club of which Harold is Vice Chairman. Harold and Eileen have two daughters, Jean and Gemma. A successful author and journalist specialising in tractors and machinery, Stuart Gibbard comes from a farming background near Spalding in Lincolnshire. He has developed his interest in collecting early tractor literature into a mail-order business which is run by his wife Sue, and he is also one of the organisers of the annual Spalding model-tractor and literature show. Devoting much of his time to historical research, Stuart has talked to many of the men who played their part in creating the machines portrayed in his books. This first-hand knowledge has enabled him to give a fascinating insight into the world of agricultural engineering and tractor development, and his publications include unrivalled histories of Ferguson and Ford.