Tractors built between 1960 and 2000 are commonly referred to today as Classic Tractors and this programme is dedicated to the machines of these four decades. During those years many innovations that are taken for granted on modern machines were developed such as safety cabs, four wheel drive, quiet cabs, synchromesh gearboxes, electronic management systems, powershift transmissions and finally computer control.
By looking at tractors from the main manufacturers hard at work in the fields this programme aims to show these innovations as well as show that these tractors, despite their growing age, still hold a place working in modern agriculture.
Special features include a look at three working classics on a Sussex farm as well as some of the action from the 2010 British National Ploughing Championships held near Lincoln where ploughmen used a variety of classic machines in the competition and demonstration plots.
Many different makes and models are included in this programme including those from Ford, County, Roadless, Massey Ferguson, Same, David Brown, International Harvester, John Deere, Leyland, New Holland, Case IH, Marshall and Lamborghini.
Whatever your particular interest, be it older classics, machines from the 1970s and 80s or the modern classics from the last dcecade of the 20th Century, you will find something here to bring back memories in a veritable feast of classic tractor action!

RUNNING TIME: 100MINS APPROX.