Recent content by DaveB

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I admit, that I used to start the major in exactly the same way, necessity and all that. Get one piston past compression and it would fire and run on the second. Doesn't seem like it but it's over 30 yrs since I drove one.

I did a great many hours on a 56 Major, no live hydraulics, pto and I guess it didn't have the comfort seat. Hinged pan seat with a large chunk of rubber it rested on. With a thick hessian sack on the seat, I didn't think it was bad. Possibly better than the new comfort seat, whatever that was...

Hired Sacks advert Oct 1962

Austin cattle wagon advert Feb 1959

Burgess advert from February 1959 and Fordson Major advert

When our old dp8 suddenly failed to turn over, it was just one of the small springs in the valve block broken. New spring and it was fine again, inexpensive simple repair.

Probably ploughing to deep, you will rarely be able to plough grassland and turn the furrow properly as deep as you can in arable land. Try ploughing more shallow and only set the skims as deep as needed to just take off the top cleanly.

Yes, we often towed the elevator behind the dray in my photo to various places where we had made hay for other people and they wanted the bales put in the barn for them. One place I remember was an upper floor where the roof truss beams went across the floor at waist height with no gaps to walk...

This late 1950s one is still in use, did a great deal of work in the 60s/70s , sugar beet , hay and straw bales, sacks of grain etc. Only used to top up bays of hay and straw now. Still with the original Villiers engine. Not sure what tractor is on the front of dray, but the dray and barn no...

Are you sure that no 1 piston is on the firing stroke, its possible for all to appear correct, no 1 piston at tdc , rotor arm apparently in correct position , but it may be on exhaust stroke and no 4 piston is on firing stroke. On most engines quickest way to check is to remove rocker cover to...

A quick search on Google shows Hugh Barr was awarded an MBE in 2015 https://www.farminguk.com/news/northern-ireland-world-champion-ploughman-receives-mbe-in-queen-s-honours_35941.html

Amazing antics hopping on and off tractors.

I would be concerned that if a blocked filter light was on, that there may be a problem that may not be solved by just replacing the filter, debris caused by brake disc lining failure for example. Light had been on for some time apparently.

Would seem very coincidental if it was driving ok until one of the filters was changed, if I am understanding correctly from a previous thread by the op on this problem. From what I can understand he changed steering filter and from then there was no drive.