Ransomes rsld land wheel shaft!

[Kenham]

I might have missed the reason Howard but why do you want to put acme thread on the levelling screw?

 

[Howard150]

I might have missed the reason Howard but why do you want to put acme thread on the levelling screw?

Turns both easier and faster so it’s much more effective. Don’t forget the thrust bearing.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Turns both easier and faster so it’s much more effective. Don’t forget the thrust bearing.

I'm not sure about that one, the thread is far to corse, and with 25mm threaded bar, half a turn can make a difference, that in your idea would be about an eighth of a turn, and even with thrust Bearings, it will be very hard to ease the front furrow out the amount needed

 

[Howard150]

I'm not sure about that one, the thread is far to corse, and with 25mm threaded bar, half a turn can make a difference, that in your idea would be about an eighth of a turn, and even with thrust Bearings, it will be very hard to ease the front furrow out the amount needed

Not 25mm John. The depth thread is 1” acme already. The levelling screw is 7/8” or 22mm in today’s currency.

Lot of them out there - including my cousin. Got EN8 free cutting for mine. Ransomes originals tend to be too soft.

 

[Kenham]

I am with PP with that as half a turn on the original thread makes a lot of difference, don't think you will like that acme thread on there as there won't be much fine adjustment. IMO.

 

[Howard150]

I am with PP with that as half a turn on the original thread makes a lot of difference, don't think you will like that acme thread on there as there won't be much fine adjustment. IMO.

Know of at least 4 in this area all of who recommend the very same mod. Will tell you if they are wrong. Will still have the original if needs must!

 

[wuddy]

Getting there David. Not much happening with mine right now and not much prospect in the near future. Not much prospect of any spring work in this area either with all these beasts and mini beasts. Would be a good thing for a lot of the car drivers round here to have their cars taken off them on the first of December and get them back on the first of April.
Is that a marker you have on the drawbar? Have all the bits to put a disc on similar to a high cut plough for mine. Can’t get my head round running with the wheel tight to the furrow wall. Ok for running a bit off but difficult for putting a bit on.
Have all the raw materials to make the levelling screw into acme thread - even got a brand new 22mm pilot bored uj for £15. Local farm machinery dealer wanted £62 for just one Walterscheid yoke.
Looks as though you are missing the diagonal stay bar that goes across over the top of the beams just in front of the front mouldboard stay. Have a square bar for mine which I intend to put a weight carrier on and extend out to land beyond the back body to incorporate a second wheel for finishing. Have the wheel and cast boss.
Managed to get the landsides machined and fabricated. Still unsure what to do with the pressed wheel but do not relish the open side to it. Have another wheel which I can cut the centre out of but it’s finding an easy way to put them together without making something ungainly.
Just toying with putting brackets on the frame to slip a 9 hole drawbar through so that I can pick it up on the 3 point linkage. Just getting the profiles cut and folded ready for a modified weight frame for the front of the tractor.
All good fun but no spare time. Just waiting to go into hospital which won’t help the cause either but then that’s a problem for another day.

Have you got any pics of the cross bar? Have got two ploughs here and neither have it! Hope everything goes well when you get to the hospital.

 

[Howard150]

Have you got any pics of the cross bar? Have got two ploughs here and neither have it! Hope everything goes well when you get to the hospital.

Bear with me David it’s just off mine currently. Will send you some info - also what I am doing to replace it.

 

[wuddy]

Bear with me David it’s just off mine currently. Will send you some info - also what I am doing to replace it.

No rush just when you have that elusive spare few mins!

 

[rick_vandal]

Getting there David. Not much happening with mine right now and not much prospect in the near future. Not much prospect of any spring work in this area either with all these beasts and mini beasts. Would be a good thing for a lot of the car drivers round here to have their cars taken off them on the first of December and get them back on the first of April.
Is that a marker you have on the drawbar? Have all the bits to put a disc on similar to a high cut plough for mine. Can’t get my head round running with the wheel tight to the furrow wall. Ok for running a bit off but difficult for putting a bit on.
Have all the raw materials to make the levelling screw into acme thread - even got a brand new 22mm pilot bored uj for £15. Local farm machinery dealer wanted £62 for just one Walterscheid yoke.
Looks as though you are missing the diagonal stay bar that goes across over the top of the beams just in front of the front mouldboard stay. Have a square bar for mine which I intend to put a weight carrier on and extend out to land beyond the back body to incorporate a second wheel for finishing. Have the wheel and cast boss.
Managed to get the landsides machined and fabricated. Still unsure what to do with the pressed wheel but do not relish the open side to it. Have another wheel which I can cut the centre out of but it’s finding an easy way to put them together without making something ungainly.
Just toying with putting brackets on the frame to slip a 9 hole drawbar through so that I can pick it up on the 3 point linkage. Just getting the profiles cut and folded ready for a modified weight frame for the front of the tractor.
All good fun but no spare time. Just waiting to go into hospital which won’t help the cause either but then that’s a problem for another day.

If you lower the sights a bit further, there are some sweet car steering column UJ's at 15mm bore but still quite adequate.

 

[Howard150]

The bar in question has the weight on David. This is Nick Morleys plough on FRDCP’s. The other square bar is for the extra wheel to finish.

 

[wuddy]

The bar in question has the weight on David. This is Nick Morleys plough on FRDCP’s. The other square bar is for the extra wheel to finish.

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Have seen them on multi furrows but never on a two. His plough is a no15 how I would love to find one of those in a hedge somewhere!

 

[Ley253]

Thats an illegal plough! Those bodies were not available for that plough at time of manufacture.

 

[Howard150]

Thats an illegal plough! Those bodies were not available for that plough at time of manufacture.

Tell that to Hugh Barr Harry

 

[arcobob]

Tell that to Hugh Barr Harry

I don't think he'll hear you. As the rules now seem to be well and truly scrambled it may not matter but the RSLD was never produced with FRDCPs and in fact was out of production by about seven years before FRDCPs were introduced for the TS59Z in around 1956. They were never fitted to a trailer plough of any description to my knowledge.

 

[Ley253]

Tell that to Hugh Barr Harry

I dont think the rules were in place in his time! and I dont think he would have been too pleased to have been termed "Vintage".

 

[arcobob]

The owner of the plough pictured has scant respect for rules as I recall.

 

[Howard150]

I dont think the rules were in place in his time! and I dont think he would have been too pleased to have been termed "Vintage".

He would not have been vintage at the time and furthermore modifications were freely allowed at a time when the best man won. Over the last few years I have seen dozens of RSLD’s - not one of them as they left the factory.

The owner of the plough pictured has scant respect for rules as I recall.

Here we are galloping with eager dread to a same old same old and more of it scenario.

By gum but the same Lad can plough, and with almost anything. Might well be that too many rules are stifling the skill, creativity and adaptability which freely exists within some of us.

 

[Ley253]

He would not have been vintage at the time and furthermore modifications were freely allowed at a time when the best man won. Over the last few years I have seen dozens of RSLD’s - not one of them as they left the factory.



Here we are galloping with eager dread to a same old same old and more of it scenario.

By gum but the same Lad can plough, and with almost anything. Might well be that too many rules are stifling the skill, creativity and adaptability which freely exists within some of us.

As I recall, vintage didnt really get going till very late 60`s, and then only as working events. First national to have a vintage class was Cross Houses in 79.
Stifling the creativity? Good point. Should it be allowed, in classes which are marketed as a demonstration of past skills and equipment? My take is this, if a part is fitted to a vintage machine, which was not available during that machines working life/ production run, that machine is no longer truly vintage, be it a plough, boat, car,
or washing machine!
Diesel engined model "N" Fordsons are a prime example,Very few were reengined to extend their working life, and those that were were specialists such as winch tractors.I know of many conversions, and every one was done as an aid in vintage ploughing,long after the tractor ceased production, and at a time when if one died, you buy two or more for the cost of fitting a replacement engine. At that time, you could buy a good running N for around £15.00.

 

[arcobob]

As I recall, vintage didnt really get going till very late 60`s, and then only as working events. First national to have a vintage class was Cross Houses in 79.
Stifling the creativity? Good point. Should it be allowed, in classes which are marketed as a demonstration of past skills and equipment? My take is this, if a part is fitted to a vintage machine, which was not available during that machines working life/ production run, that machine is no longer truly vintage, be it a plough, boat, car,
or washing machine!
Diesel engined model "N" Fordsons are a prime example,Very few were reengined to extend their working life, and those that were were specialists such as winch tractors.I know of many conversions, and every one was done as an aid in vintage ploughing,long after the tractor ceased production, and at a time when if one died, you buy two or more for the cost of fitting a replacement engine. At that time, you could buy a good running N for around £15.00.

But FRDCP were vintage by SOP definition but not available for that plough during its working life.