The Toyota Landcruiser Owners Club

[Wandering Willy]

I know this may not look heavenly to most of you. However, me and the boss have bought a few acres of Norfolk and a bucket and spade (or two!) to muck about.

The kit comprises an amazon, horse box and small tractor (plus various tools and attachments). The tractor goes in the horse box and the amazon pulls it. The trailer also provides a very basic mobile home so we've got somewhere to eat and sleep while away from home.

This is us a few weeks ago parked at the edge of the field. I haven't summoned up enough courage to try pulling the trailer across the field for fear of getting the whole lot stuck!



This is the amazon on its own which gives you an idea of the size of a 12 acre field - it's about 250 metres by 200.



And this is the back of the trailer with the ramp down so you can see what it carries



The tractor is a small Italian job with a 22hp twin cylinder air cooled diesel engine. It sounds like an old cement mixer on steroids. But it has low ground pressure tyres which and a low centre of gravity which hopefully means I won't finish up upside down in a ditch intimately wrapped in tractor parts. I use it to carry stuff around the field in a bucket attached to the 3 point linkage at the back, to pull a harrow to prepare the ground for planting and eventually to operate a large-ish lawn mower called a topper to keep the grass and weeds down. There's none at present.

The trailer weighs about 2 tons and the tractor just over half a ton so the whole package weighs about 3 tons including assorted tools. As the amazon weight 3 tons loaded with odds and ends (I weighed it), the whole rig comes out a about 6. It drives fine if slowly. The trailer is keen to take control at speeds over 50 so I haven't tried rushing! The downside of the whole package is I am getting somewhere between 12 and 15 mpg at present (before you ask it's diesel).

So, there you are. I had to get my own field to justify owning a fire breathing dragon. Trouble is it's turned into a shire horse on wheels - but I still love it.

Willy

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[mbw13]

Nice one mate  

Is that tractor a SAME by any chance? Same colour and from Italy.    

A cousin of mine imports the SAME and KUHN brand into NZ. Drove a SAME Explorer some time ago. Was a back to basics tractor, but could handle anything and everything thrown at it. Pleasure to drive instead of having all that electrical rubbish  
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Mike.

[Wandering Willy]

No, it's a Goldoni. It's got a Lombardini engine which gets used in all sorts of equipment so it's possible that your tractor has a similar engine.

Willy

[Bushpig]

I've just checked out your rig and equipment Willy.

Boy, what a bit of lateral thinking can achieve. I think you've got a marvelous set-up-------------and most of your equipment serves a double purpose as well.

Well done.

I wish you an extremely pleasant future, enjoying all the benefits of your own piece of outdoors .

With that big pig of yours, I don't see you ever having any problems getting back home.

Enjoy.

bushpig

"I think there's nothing quite so pleasant as messing about with a horse-box and a gut-wrenching Landcruiser" (quoting Toad with slight poetic license )

[Wandering Willy]

Thanks

It gives me nightmares though from time to time, but what would life be without a few worries?

Willy

[100rob]

Willy, I'm curious!  Why is your front RH fog light blanked out????  Rob.

[Wandering Willy]

I can give you two answers to the blanked out fog light. The first is that Toyota wants £80 for a replacement (the bulb had fallen out and it was full of mud when I bought the car - corroded to nothing inside). The second answer is that I've never found fog lights a lot of use. If the fog is bad enough to need extra lights to see where I'm going, I stay at home!

So, my solution was to keep the £80 in my pocket for another day and spray the lens of the broken lamp with matt black paint to look like a blanking plate.

Call me cheap!

Willy

[100rob]

Yea, that makes sense!.  Funnily enough my fog light on the same side has gone the same way, if I can't find a secondhand replacement before too long I might just blank off both units.  Good idea Willy!!!
 
    Rob.