ransome plough model help

[Selectamatic]

Others may disagree, but this plough is as good as they get.

Really? Why so?

 

[mjprice3]

colhonks as he has one possibly breaking

 

[colhonk]

Nowt left of mine but frame and headstock and 3 legs.

 

[yellowbelly]

forgot to ask what sought of age would this plough be,thanks again

I reckon they were launched at Smithfield Show around 1975/6, so yours could be anywhere from then until Ransomes packed up.

 

[Ley253]

Sale at Bath and West show ground on 27th Jan. Could well be some parts for you there, disks for a start!

 

[mjprice3]

Thats a idea have got the disc's assy but disc's are worn,just need a skim bracket and may be a depth wheel assy

 

[Ley253]

Thats a idea have got the disc's assy but disc's are worn,just need a skim bracket and may be a depth wheel assy

And if you want to find out what you are supposed to do with it, there is a judges seminar at North Petherton on the 18th Feb! Your on the slippery slope, wont be long before your thinking of match work.

 

[Lincsman]

Max HP for 6 furrows.... 120hp!... horses were a lot bigger in those days.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Thanks roy for the offer on the skimmer and info but i am nr exeter in devon,i do work at a agri engineers in the stores so can get the wearing parts at trade but will have to get the bracket off flea bay etc and there is one on there,is the nc skimmer bracket plus whats on the front furrow worth trying to get something for or are they common and not worth bothering and forgot to ask what sought of age would this plough be,thanks again

I would change the front one to suit the rest of the skimmers, the NC skim were less popular and wearing metal for them would be harder to find

Mid 80’s

I reckon they were launched at Smithfield Show around 1975/6, so yours could be anywhere from then until Ransomes packed up.

The 300 series reversible, if my memory serves me correctly was launched at around the same time as Ford launched the 10 series, local demonstrator Gordon Graham who worked for Oakley's sold a lot of tractor plough combinations by demonstrating either a 6610 4WD or in steeper/heavier land a 7610 4WD with a 4 furrow 300 series Ransomes reversible, he could almost make it talk, year ? 1981 and I thought the spaceframe came out around the same time, but as no one in this area bought conventional ploughs by then I may be totally wrong.......................Great scan of the brochure YB

Max HP for 6 furrows.... 120hp!... horses were a lot bigger in those days.

It's not so much pulling a modern plough but the lifting of it that requires such a big tractor on the front, add to that wider furrow bottoms to accommodate larger tyres and wider furrow widths ploughed and it all adds up, KV claim when changing from No 8 bodies to 28's a 5% increase in draught requirement for a 20% increase in furrow bottom width, try turning some real heavy clay that far, more like 20%increase in draught, have to say also that the soil seems a bit more stubborn these days, it's being worked extremely hard now

 

[Roy Stokes]

My 300 HD series back in the summer, only just got the chance to shine it up last weekend, tractor is rated at 128HP, and recently dyno'd at 128.5 PTO HP, I expect it to run away with 6x14 inch furrows

 

[yellowbelly]

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My 300 HD series back in the summer, only just got the chance to shine it up last weekend, tractor is rated at 128HP, and recently dyno'd at 128.5 PTO HP, I expect it to run away with 6x14 inch furrows

That'll be the one with the 'nodding headstock' then.
It's a pity Ransomes didn't fit it to the 300 series ploughs right from the start.
Unfortunately their launch pretty much coincided with everybody we worked for wanting us to pull a press. Sadly the 300 headstock (with it's double handled front furrow arrangement etc) wasn't up to it. A thousand pities really, IMHO, the 300 series and all the take over/buyout/product rationalisation finished Ransomes as a company.

Nice 4050 Roy

 

[Roy Stokes]

That'll be the one with the 'nodding headstock' then.
It's a pity Ransomes didn't fit it to the 300 series ploughs right from the start.
Unfortunately their launch pretty much coincided with everybody we worked for wanting us to pull a press. Sadly the 300 headstock (with it's double handled front furrow arrangement etc) wasn't up to it. A thousand pities really, IMHO, the 300 series and all the take over/buyout/product rationalisation finished Ransomes as a company.

Nice 4050 Roy

Yes, nodding headstock, you are right about the 300 finishing Ransomes off, the Dowdeswell DP7 and 8 were a much better machine

 

[mjprice3]

Has anybody got any experience in using knife type landslides instead of discs as I do a lot of ploughing in stoney ground and wouldn't be do matches

 

[Timo@hattonfarms]

We use sword landslides on our TSR103 with UCN boards goes well

 

[Exfarmer]

Swords and skimmers do not work on stony ground in my experience. We gassed then off after about 100 yards as stones jammed as soon as plough in the ground
Just use a disc on the back

 

[A Trebor]

We had swords on front 2/3 then disc on back to leave a tidy furrow but we have no stones

 

[mjprice3]

Do the sword landslide replace the existing ones ?

 

[A Trebor]

Do the sword landslide replace the existing ones ?

They do on a 300 series don't know about other models

 

[Roy Stokes]

We use sword landslides on our TSR103 with UCN boards goes well

That heavy clay down your way is making it bark out Tim, might be a bit much for my tractor with 6x14 in that soil, would probably have to drop one !

 

[Timo@hattonfarms]

That heavy clay down your way is making it bark out Tim, might be a bit much for my tractor with 6x14 in that soil, would probably have to drop one !

Yes Roy typical Warwickshire ground, some and some. The next field up is terrible just marly shite you have to plough it right then batter it to death. Still yields well though