Ransomes

[farmer99]

Watched the film All The Year Round last night (www.eafa.org,uk).What went wrong with them ?They had good machines for nearly every farm operation.I started with a TS46 then TS59 TS83 finally a TSR108though now have a KV as they had gone when it came time to change.
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[John 1594]

Easy..they got left behind...dowdeswell developed a crawler plough using their metal. He basically kept them in buisnessfor the last ten years as every dowdeswell used ransomes wearing parts

 

[Kevtherev]

Ransomes were a very good firm had close connections with ford.
Good products over the years and I suppose they didn't evolve and fell by the wayside?

 

[farmer99]

Next door had a pair of Cavaliers thought very highly of them though we had a 33b harvester which was always trouble .

 

[John 1594]

Ransomes also had badge engineering agreements with both johnson and catchpole, have seen catchpole beetharvesters and johnson hoovers badged as ransomes

 

[Selectamatic]

Others came and left Ransomes behind, I knew an engineer who worked for Ransomes, who said that the mighty Ransomes rested on their laurels.

Toward the end it seemed that each week they were sold to a different company.

Shame really, another Home Grown company that went pear shaped.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Things did not seem to move forward in the 70s and once they got sucked up by Electrolux that was the end of them, no investment and left to stagnat

 

[farmer99]

I think your right about badge engineering as I still use set of crawler offset discs sold as Ransomes but have petit stamped on the bearings.There well built as strong as Simba stuff. Ipull the rolls or a packer behind and have never broken the drawbar after 35 years.

 

[John 1594]

I think your right about badge engineering as I still use set of crawler offset discs sold as Ransomes but have petit stamped on the bearings.There well built as strong as Simba stuff. Ipull the rolls or a packer behind and have never broken the drawbar after 35 years.

Ransomes trailers were a re badged and painted pettit as well

 

[nick...]

We had a pair of wooden drop side petit 8 ton trailers years ago. The chassis was bolted together and was impossible to keep tight,especially with leaky rams getting oil everywhere
Nick...

 

[blackbob]

Most of the population of 300 Series ploughs in NE Scotland must belong to members of the local County Tractor Club.. including a front/rear combo, and the odd Dowdeswell: enjoy

 

[bovrill]

I remember pulling faces like that, fighting with the gear change on a County 1454!
I miss it, but I'm very glad it's so much easier now!

 

[ridger]

I'd like a front mounted plough, anyone know of any for sale? Conventional would do nicely

 

[blackbob]

I should have added http://www.scottishcountytractorclub.co.uk/index.html for anyone interested, unashamed nepotism as the club Secretary is my cousin, and the 1454 guy is her partner and club Chairman. They have a few more ploughing vids on Youtube, also some silaging.

 

[Barleymow]

Ive a pair of 300 series

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Ive a pair of 300 seriesView attachment 95356 View attachment 95362

a pair of nice tractors as well

 

[John 1594]

We were all ransomes here once upon a time, TS55 single furrow, 59 2f on scn,and a TS63 on yl44s. Then we bought a TS82 which turned out to be the biggest piece of unworkable junk ever, despite numerous alignment checks and all new metal it woulf not run right, it either ran wide or narrow, you could get it right, plough a few rounds and it would be out again. We scrapped it when we bought the first lemken

Only have one left now, a 102 which I use to plough a couple of awakard little fields too big for the 4f dowdy, and to plough the local allotments once a year.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

We have a TSR 110 with Dowdeswell trash boards - does our job .

 

[Mydexta]

We were all ransomes here once upon a time, TS55 single furrow, 59 2f on scn,and a TS63 on yl44s. Then we bought a TS82 which turned out to be the biggest piece of unworkable junk ever, despite numerous alignment checks and all new metal it woulf not run right, it either ran wide or narrow, you could get it right, plough a few rounds and it would be out again. We scrapped it when we bought the first lemken

Only have one left now, a 102 which I use to plough a couple of awakard little fields too big for the 4f dowdy, and to plough the local allotments once a year.

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You don't still have the 59 or 63 lying in the nettles by any chance do you

 

[Qman]

This is the reason why Ransome ploughs went kaput was this piece of junk http://www.farmingmachines.co.uk/machinery/M17413

I bought a TSR 300 plough, it was the worst piece of junk I've ever had on the farm. It would block up as soon as any trash was there and you couldn't see the middle furrows so you didn't always know when they were blocked until the plough came out of the ground.

I replaced it with a Dowdswell, it was like getting out of Margaret Beckett's bed into Gloria Del Piero's. Wonderful!

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...itg=1&ved=0CIUBEMo3&ei=OwukVPDtKqKr7AabnIGgDg