May is hay and dairy month at the Toy Tractor Times. This year’s review of dairy related farm toys focuses on forage harvesters. There are two new very nicely detailed 1/32 self propelled forage harvesters out from New Holland and Claas. Toy Tractor Times TV has interesting forage harvester videos including the 1950's Allis-Chalmers forage harvesting system, corn hungry Dion forage harvester and the all new Claas 900 series Jaguar choppers.
Even though summer is upon us, we head down on the model farm to a small winter time cattle display from the 2008 St. Louis Toy Show. This detailed display brings winter times chores on a cattle farm to life with intricate detail. Take a 360 degree tour of this wintry display on Toy Tractor Times TV.
We have additional haying farm toy information for you on collecting balers and other dairy related toys.
Make sure to read "Ask Ertl" with Bill Walters to learn more about exciting new collector's editions for 2008. There are some very nice tractors in 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 on the way from Ertl.
In the 1/64 area of collecting, the Toy Tractor Times is excited to announce the release of a Spirit of '76 for our 25th Anniversary. The set includes a 1/64 Steiger Panther II and Case 1570. These outstanding, all American tractors will be released in September of this year. Production of the sets will be limited to 6,600 so make sure to order your set before they are gone.
Until Next Times.....
Jason and Stefanie Hasert
Featured Farm Toy of the Month
The Stephan John Deere Model 15 Rotary chopper is an excellent collector’s piece for a dairy collection. This type of chopper uses flail knives to chop grass, alfalfa and clover for green feeds. Flail choppers were popular on dairy farms from the 1950's through the 1980's. This particular Stephan model is worth around $210.
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Grouser Products is one of the leading names in tractor mounted dozer blades. C&D Models has recently released a 1/64 version of the 5200 Grouser blade. This style blade is well suited for 4wd tractors on silage packing jobs. The tractor pictured is a custom made 2008 Steiger 435HD made by Dan Severson.
The Toy Tractor Times is proud to introduce a 1/64 Stars and Stripes Tractor Set for Our 25th Anniversary. Set:
1/64 Case 1570 Spirit of '76
1/64 Steiger Panther II Spirit of '76
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Next 'Times
It is Time to Pull in the June issue of the Toy Tractor Times. We will take our annual look at the pulling tractors available to farm toy collectors. The June issue will also go blue with a look at collecting New Holland.
Featured Website
Hi everybody. My name is Steve, and I have been collecting and customizing 1/16th scale farm toys for about 20 years now with my son, Jeff. I grew up on a dairy farm in southwest Wisconsin and still work for a large hog farm on the weekends. My favorite toys are from the era when I was growing up-the '50's, '60's, and '70's.
Visit this website: stevereinsbach.toytractortimes.com
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