ID old plough

[essexpete]

My ploughing knowledge can be fitted on a postage stamp (if you can find one).
I assume it is a Ransomes? Any ideas? Mouldboards look to be in fair order.

 

[agrimax]

I think it's a Ferguson pete...

 

[essexpete]

I think it's a Ferguson pete...

Ah, thanks, it is quite light, be used behind a 135 in the past.

 

[colhonk]

Ferguson with GP boards.

 

[Tim G]

Fergie plough.

 

[essexpete]

How does the rear wheel work?

 

[yellowbelly]

How does the rear wheel work?

It's not a rear wheel it's a rolling landside.

 

[essexpete]

It's not a rear wheel it's a rolling landside.

So is it designed to keep the furrow wall clean?

 

[yellowbelly]

So is it designed to keep the furrow wall clean?

Yeah. It's a long time since I used one but it's a sort of domed shape and rolls along the furrow wall, held against it by a spring loaded arrangement.

 

[yellowbelly]

So is it designed to keep the furrow wall clean?

 

[essexpete]

I take it the basic Fergie plough is not a go-to plough for the ploughing match experts?

 

[tomlad]

The fergie lads
Te 20 class it the correct plough

Sort of open vintage class its a no . Not competitive

Has a value . To the correct person.

 

[MrNoo]

The fergie lads
Te 20 class it the correct plough

Sort of open vintage class its a no . Not competitive

Has a value . To the correct person.

Good plough for the Fergie Class, width adjuster wouldn't be allowed as that is off a later plough the 793 and the Fergie Gestapo are oh so very hot on such trivial things.
They are competitive in Vintage Mounted with the right bum on the seat, not very trendy though. I won a VM qualifier using my Fergie so will be at this years Nationals one way or another. Looking like in VM class as not "invited" for the Fergie Class despite wing 5 or 6 qualifiers.
Richard Ingram occasionally uses his in VM and pretty much shows the rest a clean pair of heels.
If the boards are good and it has skims etc it should be £120-250, it'd obviously need a fair bit of work to get it up to match plough standard. It's a great Class spoiled massively by the Club that claims to run it, it basically pays SOP a fee for the Nationals plot plus judges but the rest of the year they do nothing to encourage it.

 

[Kidds]

I have a 2 furrow Fergie plough that I use behind my 35. Just for my "garden" and small plots, it makes a very nice job.
Only paid £120 for it and have never adjusted anything on it .

 

[essexpete]

Thank you all for the replies. Would it have a job to bury trash without skimmers?

 

[tomlad]

Be better with
Probably doesn't help u sorry
Holders and skims could be expensive sorry

 

[yellowbelly]

Would it have a job to bury trash without skimmers?

The one I used, when I left school in 1973, had skeaths (discs) but didn't have skimmers. It made a tidy job as far as I recall. Everything that it ploughed would have been well worked beforehand though, it was well before Roundup was invented so stubbles were all dragged two or three times before over-wintered ploughing - not much winter corn grown round here in those days.

 

[tomlad]

Would that be a plough in clean perfect condition though

 

[yellowbelly]

Would that be a plough in clean perfect condition though

Yes.
It was a 3 furrow on a MF 35. Bought new, with the tractor, in the year I started school (1961).

All the bolts on the plough were the same size as most of the bolts on the tractor. Therefore all you needed was one spanner - the 'Fergie Key' for any adjustments.
Harry Ferguson was a clever bloke. He put a lot of thought into the Ferguson System, as it was all called.

 

[tomlad]

Absolutely 1 1/16" one end 11/16" other and a measurements along the side .
Fit most stuff on the system.
Unlike today's tractors eh