Paul's Corner

I have been asked many times by my customers ‘what gave you the idea to make toy farm buildings for a living?’ well the straight answer is that I am a bit of an over-grown farm-hand brought up on a small dairy farm of 65 acres of heavy clay soil in a very remote area of North Devon. As a young boy growing up on the farm all I remember wanting was tractors and more tractors with every Christmas and Birthday bringing a delivery of the latest Ford 6600 or TW20. In our old farmhouse, my Mum had to go without her dining room for over 12 years as my toy farm yard grew and grew with every room in the house representing fields for rough grazing, silage and corn. I had a couple of small plastic sheds made by Britains and the rest were fashioned by myself or my Dad out of cardboard and bits of wood. I played with all of them every day but I always felt they just were not up to the job, I dreamt of herringbone milking parlours, cubicle sheds and proper tractor sheds that were actually big enough to store the machinery I had, but nothing ever came along. Fifteen years later I was looking to start my own business that did not involve chasing black and white cows around soggy fields at 5.30am, and with a love of farm toys that never really went away I made a small selection of 3 sheds and started to advertise them in The Farmers Weekly. I never looked back.

All my original influences were taken from what I played with as a child, and I have decided to show my customers my very own personal collection of farm toys that I amassed throughout the 1970’s, 1980’s and the odd model from the early 1990’s. They are predominantly Britains, as for a long time that’s all there really was, with a few great models from Ertl, Corgi and Dinky. My all time favourites would be a Britains Ford TW20 (very high hours!), Ford 6600, Deutz 110 and a brilliant Ertl David Brown 1690 that I loved despite it having no rear linkage.

I hope you enjoy looking though my gallery.

Paul Headon.
Owner
Brushwood Toys

Barn Stored

Britains Fendt 615LS & Britains MB Trac 1500

Britains Fiat 90-90, Fiat 880 DT, Fiat 880 DT with tracks

Britains Ford 5000 x 3 - battle scarred

Britains Ford 8730 x 2, Ertl Ford 8630

Britains Ford 8730, Ford TW20, Ford 6600, Ford 6600 with roll frame

Britains Ford TW20, Ford 6600, Ford 6600 with roll frame

Britains Landini 10000S, Britains MF 3680, Britains Deutz DX 4.57

Britains MB Unimog, Britains Land Rover

Britains MF 595 x 2 from back

Britains MF 595 x 2

Britains Same Galaxy 170, Britains Renault 155-54

Britains Valmet 805 forestry, Valmet 805, Volvo BM

Britains Volvo BM, Britains Deutz 110 x 2

Corgi David Brown 1412 with JF combine harvester, Corgi David Brown 1412 with grain trailer, Corgi grain silo with auger

Corgi David Brown 1412 with JF combine harvester

Ertl Case 2294, Case 956 XL

Ertl Case 4890 Ertl David Brown 1690

Ertl JD 3350, JD 6200

Tractor and machinery storage

Britains 8 wheeled trailer

Britains bale elevator, Britains Fyson elevator, Britains Lely hay turner, Britains hay rake

Britains bale trailers x 2, Britains small box trailer

Britains Bamfords baler with Britains Ford 6600, Britains NH376 baler with bale sledge

Britains Bauer slurry tanker, Britains Alfa-Laval slurry tanker, Britains slurry scraper

Britains Chafer Tramliner Sprayer, Britains crop sprayer

Britains Farmhand round baler, Britains Benac round bale trailer

Britains fold up cultivator, Britains Bomford Superflow cultivator, Britains cultivator

Britains Helicopters Sprayer

Britains horse box, Britains bale trailers x 2, Britains fertiliser spreaders x 3

Britains Magirus Deutz Cattle Lorry

Britains MF595, Britains MF130 seed drill, Britains Smallford planter, Britains planter

Britains Pottinger forage wagon, Britains disk mower

Britains reversible plough, Britains disk harrow, Britains post hole digger, Britains small 3 furrow plough x 3

Britains rotary dung spreader, Britains rear discharge dung spreader, Britains rollers

Corgi Ford Super Major 5000 with plough, Dinky disk harrow, Dinky hay liner

Corgi MF Industrial with hay trailer, Corgi MF165 with loader, Dinky Leyland

Crescent Fordson Major

MF Power Parts TE20, Corgi Ford Super Major 5000 with plough

Britains Fiat 90-90 with front mounted snow plough

Britains Ford 6600 with front mounted blade

Britains Ford 6600 with front mounted buck rake

Britains large Vicon trailed fertiliser spreader, Britains small Vicon trailed fertiliser spreader

Britains link boxes

Britains MF760 Combine Harvester

Britains push-off buck rake, Britains slurry scraper

Ertl Case 956XL with Ertl tipping grain trailer

Siku Claas trailer, Britains silage trailers x 2, Britains Deutz 110 with Britains forage harvester (maize header)