Ertl 35320: John Deere 70 Piece Value Playset, 1:64 Scale

Survived a concession of owners over the last several years, this John Deere 70 Piece Value Set has lasted so long thanks to the strong backing of the John Deere name. In putting this playset together, Ertl have made sure there's enough farm vehicles and accessories to be able to call it a complete set, with action focused around the toy farm machinery shed.

the Machinery Shed

Once the Ertl machinery shed is assembled, you'll end up with a big tractor shed for keeping your farm vehicles and equipment under lock and key - when we say big, we do mean in the 1:64 scale sense.

This is a small shed in comparison, so it will be a little fidgety when putting together, well playing with it also, it just needs getting used to. The only functioning feature on this shed is in the real working sliding door action.

Access can be gain through this sliding door, but its best if they remove the roof panel so they have unrestricted access for unlimited farm play.

5 John Deere toy tractors

Well centered around the machinery shed, these replica John Deere toy tractors in 1:64 scale will get the most use. This is due to each one being able to haul a trailer or equipment thanks to a rear hitch.

They are all replicated to existing toy tractors in the Ertl collection, though its hard to put a name to each one. So you know, there are three identical tractors, with a vintage 'style' tractor and a monster John Deere tractor for hauling heavy-duty machinery.

They have free-rolling wheels, blacken cab windows, a rear hitch as we've mentioned before, and a front counter-weight.

toy Farm Equipment

In all, there are an assortment of four toy farm equipment here, each one designed to be hooked up to either of the John Deere tractors using the hitch that fixes to the corresponding coupling.

The farm equipment are focused on the theme of harvesting, with the disk for preparing the fields, and a trailed forager used to collect grass or crops for feeding people or animals.

In between is a unique double hook-up trailer and spreader for spreading across the fields, each one can be used with its own tractor, so there's no need to switch over tractors.

Trailers

You can't own a bunch of toy tractors and not have a handful of useful all-purpose toy farm trailers; used for transporting horses to hauling heavy farm machinery and loads.

The most noticeable trailer is the horse transporter, then you have a flatbed trailer used to load up heavy tractors and machinery that needs hauling around the playset.

In case of the flat bed trailer, you can use this one to transport tractors in and out of the farm, but should be used for taking broken down tractors and equipment into the machinery shed for repairing.

Cows in the corral

Oh yes, there has to be cows in the Ertl value playset all there will be little else to do other than driving tractors - and these four cows are sure to create extra tasks.

This is only a small set of 1:64 scale plastic toy cows in black and white (though brown and white cows are known to be supplied also).

Ertl have supplied a set of four cows only, luckily the kid's can increase the herd with 20 or more cows available separately, if they find the four not enough.

Horses in the trailer

To work with the four horse figures that come with this playset, a horse trailer is included that attaches to either one of the toy pick-up trucks in 1:64 scale - all in plastic mind you.

Simply reserve the horse trailer back to the corral, to load up the horse one at a time. There are only four horses included with the set so it won't take that long.

This John Deere farm toy playset comes with 14 red corral fence sections, so divide them into seven sections and create two separate corral pens - one for the cattle, the other for the horses.

2 Pick-ups and a dump truck

The ertl John Deere value set won't be much use if there's no vehicles suitable for the road, so the set includes two John Deere pick-up trucks.

The pick-up trucks both have a rear hitch so can pull any one of the trailers, but will be suited to haul the flatbed trailer and horse box best.

Not quite a toy farm vehicle but the set also comes with a dump truck with a functional tipping action, use this toy dump truck to collect sand, stones or soil.

toy Quad Bike

Finally, that takes us to the last vehicle in this John Deere value set, the toy quad bike - sometimes mistaken for a John Deere gator, but this is indeed a quad bike.

Quad bikes are a vital piece of kit around the farm, the can go where larger vehicles are not able to, and useful for getting around a large farm with acres of land to cover.

This is a John Deere toy quad, but no driver figure unfortunately - this quad can still be used to drive around and will sit nicely on the flatbed trailer when not in use.