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<blockquote data-quote="Lazy Sod" data-source="post: 7293349" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>My father gave up his horses in 1947 and bought 2 s/h Standard Fordsons. An orange one with wide wings, rear spade lugs and steel front wheels, the other one was green with clipped wings. It had rubbers on the rear wheels but steels on the front.</p><p></p><p>I never drove the orange one as it was exchanged for a TVO e27n, in about 1949 or 50 when I was 5 or 6, that had steel fronts, rear rubbers, no electrics but had hydraulics and a fore end loader. That was changed for a E1A Fordson Major when they first came out and then sequentially for a Power Major and a Super Major. I started driving the tractors when I was 13 so that was with the Power major and the green standard.</p><p></p><p>I have 2 memories of Threshing. The first, when I was very small, was of the thresher being pulled up to the top of the farm with a Standard Fordson. It had a winch to pull the thresher forwards when it became stuck in the mud.</p><p></p><p>When I was a bit older I remember quite well the threshing outfit. Powering it was an e27n P6. Fordson. That was my first sighting of the four circle Perkins badge. I know that it was difficult to move the sacks of corn on the soft ground with sack trucks that had smallish steel wheels. So much so that my father had some made with 16" inflatable tyres. I think that the threshing contractor was Godfrey Waters from Orcheston on Salisbury plane. Many years later we wanted an extra tractor for odd jobs and bought an old e27n P6 and guess whose name was in the log book, Godfrey Waters!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lazy Sod, post: 7293349, member: 207"] My father gave up his horses in 1947 and bought 2 s/h Standard Fordsons. An orange one with wide wings, rear spade lugs and steel front wheels, the other one was green with clipped wings. It had rubbers on the rear wheels but steels on the front. I never drove the orange one as it was exchanged for a TVO e27n, in about 1949 or 50 when I was 5 or 6, that had steel fronts, rear rubbers, no electrics but had hydraulics and a fore end loader. That was changed for a E1A Fordson Major when they first came out and then sequentially for a Power Major and a Super Major. I started driving the tractors when I was 13 so that was with the Power major and the green standard. I have 2 memories of Threshing. The first, when I was very small, was of the thresher being pulled up to the top of the farm with a Standard Fordson. It had a winch to pull the thresher forwards when it became stuck in the mud. When I was a bit older I remember quite well the threshing outfit. Powering it was an e27n P6. Fordson. That was my first sighting of the four circle Perkins badge. I know that it was difficult to move the sacks of corn on the soft ground with sack trucks that had smallish steel wheels. So much so that my father had some made with 16" inflatable tyres. I think that the threshing contractor was Godfrey Waters from Orcheston on Salisbury plane. Many years later we wanted an extra tractor for odd jobs and bought an old e27n P6 and guess whose name was in the log book, Godfrey Waters! [/QUOTE]
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