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Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
To release the clutch you would be better off getting the engine as warm as possible and driving up and down a field with pedal jammed down jabbing the brakes on and off, better still if you can drag something heavyish with you
 

Full of bull(s)

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
I'm too coose for you lot.....I'd put the nose up against a firm wall and hold the clutch down......something will give, just fingers crossed it's the clutch not the wall👍😂😂
I did that with a David brown 1200 once against a bale stack....except it started to climb it and the stop wasn’t connected...did I s##t myself
 

DevonianRedneck

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Mixed Farmer
Location
west Devon
I did that with a David brown 1200 once against a bale stack....except it started to climb it and the stop wasn’t connected...did I s##t myself

Did it stop climbing on its own? Or did you manage to knock it out of gear?

Or did it work and the clutch free'ed off in time😂

Hopefully it didn't go over backwards😔


In all seriousness..for clarity I would not recommend this method for safety reasons😉

I used to have an old 5000 as a loader tractor...and if parked for more than a couple days the clutch would stick every bleddy time,

So until we started tieing the clutch down, we always used to park it with the bale spike in a stack of bales, so you could start it, in gear with clutch depressed....it would spin for a second or two and then the clutch would free off and you were good to go👍
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
nash 885xl with 'new' to me jd 550....just beat the rain :)

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X344chap

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Central Scotland
Am I right in thinking that you could upgrade them to the wet brakes of later versions with the right bits from a breaker without having to change the rear axle? Something tells me you could
Yes you can put the wet brake castings on to older leylands but you need to tap them and feed oil into them from the back end i think. Not cheap second hand either.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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