Browse through our blog posts to find out what life is like at Hoe Grange Holidays along with some great ideas for days out in the Peak District.
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Playtime!!
August 31, 2012
Animals, Building, Climbing, Derbyshire, Eco, Family, Farm, Food and drink, Peak District, Pigs, self catering holiday, Tractor,Play ground Especially for our younger guests visiting us in the Derbyshire Peak district we have now installed a magical fort to play in, complete with slide for emergency evacuation. So if the Indians get to close or tea is ready, you can be down on the ground in seconds, and with the wooden tractor on hand you can make a quick get away. But the children are not the only ones playing this week. Our Gloucester Old spot piggys Pinky, Perky, Pepper and Pumba have been exploring the great outdoors and having great fun rooting around in the grass...
The boys on their epic charity tractor drive have reached Land End today, then immediately headed north for John o'Groats. After a bit of a false start and a few technical difficulties the little grey Fergie is now running well and hitting speeds of up to 14mph. With 874 mile to the northern most point in the UK they will be travelling for a while yet. Heading for Lands End You can follow them on www.grey-fergie.co.uk, and by means of a satellite tracker donated by Skytag you can see on the map just where they have got to. Don't forget to ...
A while ago we told you of our son and his friends who are planning an epic charity tractor drive the length and breadth of the country, some 2000 miles in total, on a 70 year old Massey Ferguson TE20. The Tractor they originally planned to use fell through, so they found another one recently bought by a friend for £25!! This is taking them a lot more work than originally planned to get the tractor roadworthy ready for the trip. In the last 3 weeks they have completely stripped it down , rebuilt the engine, replaced bearings, checked gearbox...
The first guest with children since our new playground tractor was installed had a great time playing at being Farmer Brown, driving the wooden Massey Ferguson for hours at a time. This is something our eldest son Michael will know a lot about by the end of the summer, although his tractor will not be made of wood! Michael and a hand full of mates from Harper Adams University in Shropshire are to undertake a mammoth charity tractor drive, from Dover Castle in Kent to Lands End in Cornwall to John 'O Groats, Scotland and then back to Coventry...
A Tale of Two Tractors
February 28, 2012
Building, Family, Farm, Harvest, Peak District, Tourism, Tractor,David is following in the footsteps of his Great Grandfather, William Brown, by constructing a tractor for Hoe Grange. Although slightly different! Tedding the hay with a Model T Model T with mid mounted mower Great Grandpa's tractors were constructed in the 1930's using Ford Model T cars as their base. Tractors were hard to come by and expensive, so these machines were cleverly adapted for various jobs around the farm from cultivating, and mowing to tedding or turning the hay. William Brown was an amazing engineer who was ahead of his time ...







