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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: I really want a tractor! |
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Hi
I am wanting a useable tractor, towing cars, trailers, and road runs, with a small amount of proper work every now and then.
It has got to be affordable!
I think I asked a simmilar question a while back, but need to talk tractors as I am crawling the walls, untill I have gained space to buy one, talking about them does seem to help! I think I would like a runable one for Xmas, If posible, so no major resto work!
Cheers
Dave |
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dalbuie

Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 408 Location: Gullane
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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I always find myself looking closely at the tractors at the shows. No idea why, but there is something about them that makes me want one as well.
Never happen though, wife and kids think I'm mad already... |
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dalbuie

Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 408 Location: Gullane
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Now they are bullet proof!
I rekon that will sell for a good sum, This makes me want a tractor a little more!
Cheers
Dave |
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I am non to sure, will have to ask someone I know, he has an imaculate one, won 5 awards in the last 6 shows or something like that.
The back axles are strong, very strong!
Cheers
Dave |
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gordon28
Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: Majors Cracking Block |
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Rick , i worked in a ford tractor dealership for 16 years , as a partsman , and majors are indestructable. they usually don,t have block cracking problems , but liner o ring seal problems. the early ones have one seal per liner from 52>57 , and the power and super majors from 57>64 have 2 seals , 1 top and 1 bottom. where the seal sits into the block can become corroded and eaten away , letting the water in to the sump , but this could be cured from the early 1990's , with some degree of success with products like J B WELD ( plastic metal ) and new seals , i've seen it done! , before that the blocks were usually scrap. here's a bit of memory test for me , the part numbers , early ones E1ADKN 6061A , later 116533ESA , 116534ESA. oh the early engine is easily recognised externally as it has the throttle linkage , through the block between nos 2 and 3 cylinder. later engines had the linkage routed behind the block.
probably when i'm old and in the nursing home i'll be gibbering part numbers all day
i remember a lot of these tractors being bought up and shipped to Iran about 91-92 , where they ripped out the old fordson engine and put in perkins 6 cylinders etc. they apparently lasted well in the desert , with nil maintenance . tractor pullers in this country have engines of 1000hp or more going through that back axle, not bad considering the old fordson was about 57hp. cheers gordon |
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dalbuie

Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 408 Location: Gullane
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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I have a farmer friend in Haddington who has a reasonable range of vintage tractors for shows etc.
I'll try to get along in the next few weeks and get some pictures and details from him. I think some run on paraffin... |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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As i recall, most tractors in the post war-early 1950's ran on Paraffin or what was usually known as TVO (tractor Vaporising oil). They were usually fitted with a pre-heater manifold. You started on petrol and then switched over to the paraffin tank once the manifold had warmed up. I recall someone owning a Standard Vanguard, (that provided the engine for the grey fergi, biut with the manifold mod), acquiring a Ferguson engine (or might have been a cylinder head) so that he could run his Vanguard on TVO!
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dalbuie

Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 408 Location: Gullane
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | I rekon that will sell for a good sum, This makes me want a tractor a little more! |
Went for £770 which looks like a bargain for a running tractor. |
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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That is bargainous! |
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peter scott

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7212 Location: Edinburgh
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Now that looks good, but I think I have just blown my tractor budget on something....
Majours really are good tractors, I bet that will be snapped up for pulling.
Cheers
Dave |
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dalbuie

Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 408 Location: Gullane
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I know a few farmers that are buying these older - smaller - tractors for clearing out the barns and cowsheds in the winter.
The new tractors are too big. |
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Scraper tractors, yeah there are lots of old fergies, 35's, Mcormics, Majours etc. Ford 4000's are also very good, there steeting is very tight, they tun on the spot with independant brakes.
The newer tractors, the ones I work on are all very good, but the lock is cr*p, Fastracks have 4 wheel steering, good job too!
One small 95HP Case I was on the other day was an exception, it did turn well!
I was refueling all of the tractors on Friday, there are about 15 new ones, and what do you know driving one to the Diesel tank, and it runs out of fuel. I put a jerry can full in, and it didn't fill the fuel lines, so another went in, and then I had to bleed it, I just slackened the pipe on the injector, and then turned her over for a minute, nipped it up, and away she went, the final 20 yards to the tank! hehe
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Dave |
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