Green Death
What’s small, green, and incredibly deadly? Yes, it’s the quad bike (or ATV to some), a vehicle that despite having twice the number of wheels as a motorbike is even more likely to fall over. This one...
View ArticleGiant Haystacks
Because we’re weird, we like obscure niche pieces of machinery here at The Lego Car Blog. And they don’t come much more obscurely niche than a trailer specifically built to carry hay bales. It’s an...
View ArticleMy Other Piece of Agricultural Equipment is a Unimog
The new and rather excellent looking LEGO Technic 42242 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023 set brings a whole lot of lime to the Technic line-up. Which means a famously-lime agricultural brand is within...
View ArticleIndustry of Machinery & Tractors
Before Yugoslavia dissolved into seven separate countries (we’re counting Kosovo – live with it Serbia), it was a communist dictatorship like so much of Eastern Europe. And with the usual foibles of...
View ArticlePacking Meat
Sharing a title with that video of your Mom, today’s post is full of meat, because this DAF FAS 2300 DHU truck and twin-axle Jumbo trailer pairing was built for transporting pigs. Flickr’s Arian...
View ArticleAgricultural Abduction
“I’m tellin’ you man! I saw it with my own eyes – hovering in the sky like an… uh, I don’t even know what. But it was right over there! And I ain’t even started drinkin’ yet!” Grab your ‘Welcome to...
View ArticleA Proper Porsche
Porsche are in big trouble. Despite the success of their EVs (and perhaps because of it…), Porsche are currently undertaking a rapid de-electrification of their future models. Because whilst a...
View ArticleSteyr Master
Things to come out of Austria; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Swarovski crystal, Red Bull, and, um… Adolf Hitler. And this! The Steyr tractor. Constructed by previous bloggee Keko007 it’s a 6300 CVT, and it’s...
View ArticleFriday Farming
We’re off to the farm now, courtesy of Konstantin of Flickr and these splendid agricultural machines. The first (above) is an MTZ ‘Belarus’ tractor made in, um… Belarus, whilst below is a very modern...
View ArticleThe Lego Cow Blog
This is, obviously, not a car. But for much of the world, it really is. And unlike a clapped-out hatchback, when it’s too old perform reliably it can become a delicious dinner. Flickr’s Andreas...
View ArticleFarm Fresh
We don’t usually know what’s in the back of a truck, but we do today thanks to those tell-tale openings. Delicious animals, that’s what. But if you’re vegan don’t worry, today’s other post will be for...
View ArticleNew Holland
This is a New Holland T7.185, and it comes from previous bloggee Keko007 who has constructed it brilliantly from bricks. Blending Technic, System, and studs-not-on-top techniques, Keko’s New Holland...
View ArticleLittle Green Man
Why is it depictions of aliens are always little green-ish grey men with big black eyes? Answer us that Science. Anyway, this little green man is not the standard depiction of an otherworldly being,...
View ArticleOh Deere, Oh Deere, Oh Deere…
Yes, we know it’s been days since we last published anything, but our Elves found nothing that met our Submission Guidelines. Today though, thanks to a reader, if you’re a Lego tractor fan, we have...
View ArticleVintage Vegetable Vignette
This site is, admittedly, usually full of vehicles with stripes, spoilers, and V8s. But we’re actually rural bumpkins at heart, so we’re also rather fond of vehicles and scenes like this one....
View ArticleBaling Bricks
We love well-engineered small-scale Technic almost as much as we love toilet humour. So you can imagine our delight when one of our Elves found this neat Technic tractor and baler, because it looks...
View ArticleTrailer Park
This TLCB Writer is from age of the VHS tape, when you had to hold down the fast-forward button to skip half-an-hour of trailers before you could watch the Disney movie your grandparents had actually...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Lawnmower
TLCB maintains that farm machinery is the scariest vehicular category there is. Take this Claas Jaguar-900 self-propelled forage harvester, which looks like a cross between the monster from Stranger...
View ArticleKramping Our Style
This is a MAN TGS Agro truck, and it’s pulling a Krampe KS 950 Off-Road trailer, which can carry (and tip) twenty-five tons of harvested crops. We’re hoping the contents is barley… It evidently...
View ArticleHousehold Crap
Right, that’s enough far-fetched other-worldly rovers for a bit, here’s a bland 1990s truck, pulling an even blander trailer, filled with bland plastic kitchen products. But built beautifully… This...
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