For those of you into Fordson Majors

[Drillman]

http://www.stephenson.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Walker-Acklam-Wold-Farm-Sale-19th-October-2019.pdf

 

[Nearly]

Drillman said to me he'd buy anyone who recognised him a bacon butty.

 

[Drillman]

Drillman said to me he'd buy anyone who recognised him a bacon butty.

If the queue at butty van is long I’m off home for one??

 

[Mr CVX]

 

[essexpete]

Where has the rest gorn?

 

[2wheels]

6 minutes of my life gone.

 

[Mr CVX]

6 minutes of my life gone.

Thanks for watching it all

 

[2wheels]

Thanks for watching it all

aye, maybe a bit harsh of me i guess i was disappointed that i didn't see the whole job speeded up then slowed down at the important bits. did you film it on your phone? if so it was good. but don't mind me i'm one of these retired old farts who couldn't do what you have done.

 

[Mr CVX]

aye, maybe a bit harsh of me i guess i was disappointed that i didn't see the whole job speeded up then slowed down at the important bits. did you film it on your phone? if so it was good. but don't mind me i'm one of these retired old farts who couldn't do what you have done.

I was going to do that but there's lots of bits of me going missing on the phone and generally arsing about so it wouldn't have filmed well but I will keep it in mind for future clips of it.
It's filmed on a go pro

 

[PSQ]

Just out of interest, what sort of price range are Majors and Super Majors selling for these days?

 

[Lincsman]

Just out of interest, what sort of price range are Majors and Super Majors selling for these days?

About double new price. waiting for the day an old quadtrack is £500k even though its a non runner.

 

[tomlad]

I was going to do that but there's lots of bits of me going missing on the phone and generally arsing about so it wouldn't have filmed well but I will keep it in mind for future clips of it.
It's filmed on a go pro

I hadn't realised that it was a tff members vlog
Needs a follow up eh ?
Every credit for uploading

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Where has the rest gorn?

I remember when ready mix lorries had a Major engine to drive the barrel. I suppose nowadays they're hydraulically driven?

 

[essexpete]

I remember when ready mix lorries had a Major engine to drive the barrel. I suppose nowadays they're hydraulically driven?

Yes the donkey engine disappeared a long time ago with improved hydraulics and more powerful truck engines.
What made the Thames compressor version different is the Major engine also propelled the vehicle.

 

[8100]

I never got to drive a major .There were many Dexter's still doing the scraping out when i worked on farms and a mate had one still in service up to a year or so ago so i did a bit on them.I remember going a small farm sale Holmes Chapel way late 80's/ early 90's and there was a nice 6 pot major in the sale that someone had converted .
I don't know what it made as we went look at a baler and left before it sold.

 

[Mr CVX]

Question.
Should I keep the wheels as original or upgrade to bigger ones

 

[essexpete]

Question.
Should I keep the wheels as original or upgrade to bigger ones

I suppose it depends on what you might do with it. Personally I would keep it original. I think many of the export tractors were sent out with wider tyres.

 

[Mr CVX]

I suppose it depends on what you might do with it. Personally I would keep it original. I think many of the export tractors were sent out with wider tyres.

Park it in the shed.
Take it for a drive whenever I feel like it

 

[essexpete]

Park it in the shed.
Take it for a drive whenever I feel like it

Keep as original as is possible. Might get a better ride on wider tyres!

 

[SMID]

Question.
Should I keep the wheels as original or upgrade to bigger ones

16.9 14 x 30s and 750 x 16s