MID Devon Tractor Engine and Machinery Group held its Spring Working Day at Barnstaple Cross off the A377 near Crediton on Saturday, April 5.
Richard and Rosie Cheriton were thanked for allowing use of the field.
Johnny Butt enjoyed demonstrating ploughing at the Spring Working Day. AQ 8055 (Alan Quick, Crediton Courier)
Wilbur (3), enjoyed sitting on his grandfather Martin Beer’s David Brown 955 tractor at the Working Day. AQ 8020 (Alan Quick, Crediton Courier)
The day was an opportunity for Group members to exhibit some of their finest and rarest tractors, ploughs and machines.
The weather was fine and everyone enjoyed getting together.
One of the exhibitors at the Mid Devon Tractor Engine and Machinery Group Working Day. AQ 8009 (Alan Quick, Crediton Courier)
Martyn Smale of Cheriton Fizpaine enjoyed ploughing at the Mid Devon Tractor Engine and Machinery Group Working Day. AQ 8042 (Alan Quick, Crediton Courier)
The most impressive and probably the rarest tractor and plough to be seen was owned by Geoff Parfitt from Bratton Clovelly.
Geoff was ploughing with his 1925 Rumely OilPull tractor built at LaPorte, Indiana, USA.
Two ploughing at Mid Devon Tractor Engine and Machinery Group Working Day near Crediton. AQ 7998 (Alan Quick, Crediton Courier)
The plough was built by Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd of Ipswich, England, and it was one of the earliest tractor ploughs ever made.