JUST THE JOB! Joseph Lewis discovers an early 1980s working classic

摘要

Simon Cawthorne has owned a 20 acre smallholding for ten years and it includes a 12 acre grass field, which is cut for hay to feed horses. He maintains it with a Massey Ferguson 2680. This is a comparatively rare tractor and his 130hp model from about 1982 is even more unusual in the relatively small fields of around Podimore, South Somerset, where he lives. Simon uses the six-cylinder, turbocharged tractor for around 100 hours a year to work a Zweegers PZ haybob, JF Fieldfarer 2.4m disc mower, Kidd 9ft topper, power harrow, Howard 1550 rotaspreader, hedge trimmer and a Dowdeswell four-furrow reversible plough when it is fitted with front weights. The 2680 is also used for baling with an International conventional pick-up baler.