Vintage set of the week: Tractor
Posted by Huwbot,This week's vintage set is 814 Tractor, released during 1975. It's one of 6 Building Set with People sets produced that year. It contains 93 pieces.
It's owned by 139 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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that trailer won't be any good to use on a farm. It's too low!!
@Maxbricks14 said:
"that trailer won't be any good to use on a farm. It's too low!!"
Also because paddlewheels are only useful on Dutch farms.
Looks more Technic than a modern day Technic Set.
@namekuji said:
"Looks more Technic than a modern day Technic Set."
True, true. And that tractor part has steering! So this set has 2 functions with only 93 parts.
Ah...A "Haney Special", guaranteed to: turn your soil, plow your rows, and plant your seeds IN A DAY...which day? The one when you can get it to start :D
Lovely set with warm colors. I'll never get tired of looking at these smiley faces.
"True, true. And that tractor part has steering! So this set has 2 functions with only 93 parts."
And it could also claim to be 3-in-1
@Maxbricks14 said:
"that trailer won't be any good to use on a farm. It's too low!!"
True, it won't do diddly squat ;-)
White Technic axles.....they had color puke even before they had black Technic axles!
Oooooh I’ve got a brick built combine harvester and I’ll give you the key!
Come on now let’s clutch together in perfect harmony!
I’ve got 1x8 bricks and you’ve got 2x3!
Now I’ve got a brick built combine harvester and I’ll give you the key!
Love the dragster. Not going to be able to do much as a tractor, not even sure what it could do, but that's a fun alternate model.
Ah, the Homemakers, the custodians of despair. Their inky black eyes can see straight into your innermost self to see where your happiness lives while their weird, tentacle-like protrusions can writhe their way into your soul and choke that happiness to death.
We've come to fear Dreadflipper - or since he's awoken this year as a monstrosity made of ice; Frostflipper - but the worst our dread penguin overlord is planning to do, is flash-freeze the entire planet. The Homemakers and their everlasting nightmares are so much worse than instant, icy death.
Anyway, cute set. I love those tyres, check out the variety! I miss those things.
I bought a big canvas bag full of 1970s Lego a couple of years ago on the grounds that it appeared to contain some Galaxy Explorer and other early Space parts (it did) but in amongst the remainder were most of the components for this tractor set. I haven't attempted to reassemble it, being before my era of interest to be honest, and also because I suspect I may have filed the steering linkage components into the "Not Lego" bin along with the inevitable marbles, crayons, Playmobil etc that always infests any bulk lot of Lego.
@Ridgeheart said:
"Ah, the Homemakers, the custodians of despair. Their inky black eyes can see straight into your innermost self to see where your happiness lives while their weird, tentacle-like protrusions can writhe their way into your soul and choke that happiness to death.
We've come to fear Dreadflipper - or since he's awoken this year as a monstrosity made of ice; Frostflipper - but the worst our dread penguin overlord is planning to do, is flash-freeze the entire planet. The Homemakers and their everlasting nightmares are so much worse than instant, icy death.
Anyway, cute set. I love those tyres, check out the variety! I miss those things."
Freeze the planet solid? That's nothing compared to what Ogel did nearly twenty years ago - he froze TIME ITSELF solid, and beat the good guys while has was at it. (we never got a conclusion to that arc, so Agent Zed might have been a traitor for all we know and joined Ogel's side. The world will never know the truth!)
@cm5878 said:
"I bought a big canvas bag full of 1970s Lego a couple of years ago ... I suspect I may have filed the steering linkage components into the "Not Lego" bin along with the inevitable marbles, crayons, Playmobil etc that always infests any bulk lot of Lego."
I have done that too. Now I file into "definitely" Lego, "definitely not" Lego and "to be investigated".
@legopete said:
" @cm5878 said:
"I bought a big canvas bag full of 1970s Lego a couple of years ago ... I suspect I may have filed the steering linkage components into the "Not Lego" bin along with the inevitable marbles, crayons, Playmobil etc that always infests any bulk lot of Lego."
I have done that too. Now I file into "definitely" Lego, "definitely not" Lego and "to be investigated".
"
I call mine the ‘maybe’ pile.
That's a weird wheelchair for that poor legless man
@Binnekamp said:
"That's a weird wheelchair for that poor legless man"
Or maybe that's how he lost his legs...
The way this guy is dressed, and the way the machine looks makes me think of the old 1930s Soviet propaganda films about farm mechanization and how plentiful food was*.
*This was all while Stalin was creating manmade famines left-right-and-center and starving the people of Ukraine to death by the millions, of course...
only 139 of us have this set. wow! It was only released in Europe, so If you live in the US, you had to buy it online basically. I got mine on Ebay years back while working on collecting all 65 or so LEGO tractors that have been officially made by LEGO