Green, a retired building surveyor, said he had been “interested in tractors from a very young age” and initially started collecting tractor leaflets and pamphlets.
“Over time that collection grew, and I then decided to sell it all, but by then I had the collecting bug,” he said.
“So I started collecting John Deere toys instead.”
He said he built up the collection slowly including “some of the rarest models out there, including the specialist gold models”.
“As time went on, the collection grew and I fitted glass-fronted cabinets into my house to keep them in.
“I also bought from dealers based in the UK and also off of eBay and other websites.”
The majority of the 1:16 scale models were built by farm toy manufacturer ERTL.