Yl183 bodies
- Thread starter Joe Cat
- Start date
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
£800 if the boards are good
Joe Cat
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Really! Let's hope the guys not reading this or I'm out. Thanks
Fergie Ploughman
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- Location
- Cheshire, UK
...I would of thought you may be a bit luckier and find some for £700, but they're certainly up there!
...and to be honest, if your cash is hard come by I wouldn't waste it on them, I had many good years of service out of Westlake's repros!
...and to be honest, if your cash is hard come by I wouldn't waste it on them, I had many good years of service out of Westlake's repros!
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
Got apair of new kristeel boards at cheffins harrowgate sale in August for 200 quid.......thinkin there might be a bit of profit in them
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
you remember that drink you owe meGot apair of new kristeel boards at cheffins harrowgate sale in August for 200 quid.......thinkin there might be a bit of profit in them
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
Fergie Ploughman
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- Location
- Cheshire, UK
Sounds like you have a bargain, the £7/800 would be for brand new boards...Got apair of new kristeel boards at cheffins harrowgate sale in August for 200 quid.......thinkin there might be a bit of profit in them
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
These I've got are still in that green coating but one is a bit rusty under the coating....may need a bit of tlc to get it right
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
eye not to worry Ben, I'll take them as they are
Fergie Ploughman
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- Location
- Cheshire, UK
I'll give you £50 for your trouble Ben, how about £250 ?
Fergie Ploughman
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- Location
- Cheshire, UK
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
now Charlie you've got me thinking...have you checked they're RH boards......
....thats another job to do before christmas
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
Well..bin and looked...all's well they are right hand
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
I wont get them picked up till the new year Ben, is that ok, Merry Christmas
massey765
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- Location
- nr clitheroe lancs
20 years ago a guy fetched a load of potatoes up to us here in hallowed ground (Yorkshire) from Suffolk. At that time a few enterprising growers were growing 2 crops a year in the same ground with the same inputs, lifting both as earlies.
He came to the workshop looking for me to unload him and when he saw the sliding headstock I was making, he said “look like you be needin some new mouldboards for that plough boy”
I agreed and said “yes but these are TCN’s not UCN’s”
“I know boy” he said and duly gave me a phone number for a guy “guaranteed to have some”
Next day I duly rang said guy guaranteed to have some and asked if he had some TCN mouldboards. “Oiy haave” he said - “right hand” I asked with baited breath....”they are” he said with confidence whilst my abacus rattled on at a rate not known to exist.
“Can you save me a couple of pairs” I asked - fearful of breaking the spell and waking up. “Oiy down’t need” he said in a most accommodating way “Oiy got 800”
“KIN NELL!!” I said - trying to sound nonchalant and not to too keen - or shocked!
I arranged to go down the next week and duly loaded up the wallet in readiness.
A week later I duly set off ter’tother end o’t tearth in that 3 sided lump o’ ground known ter man as Eaearst Anglia (as in’t towd car Ford ad at yan time) 200 and 7.8 whole English country miles that seem treble that whilst you are doing them.
Christmas Day come early ha ha ha ...or not - at least 15 stillages all full - all TCN mouldboards - each and every one - every last man jack of em - all 800 -EFFIN LEFT HAND. Sinistere - gauch - cack handed - call it what you will but nonetheless no good to man nor beast and not a single right hand board in sight. After turning the place upside down we found one - laid in a puddle with a hole rotted through big enough to put my hand through. “I am sorry he said in a plaintive voice. “you come a long way?” “not arf as effin sorry as I am” I said “me just avin’ driven 207.8 whole English effin miles and thick end of a summers day to get here, all on a promise of genuine TCN mouldboards” - untold riches in everyday ploughman’s terms and mouldboard speak.
I did get some next day not a million miles away in Holt - at Kongskilde - not Kristeel but then - that’s a tale for another day.
All light years away now.......
He came to the workshop looking for me to unload him and when he saw the sliding headstock I was making, he said “look like you be needin some new mouldboards for that plough boy”
I agreed and said “yes but these are TCN’s not UCN’s”
“I know boy” he said and duly gave me a phone number for a guy “guaranteed to have some”
Next day I duly rang said guy guaranteed to have some and asked if he had some TCN mouldboards. “Oiy haave” he said - “right hand” I asked with baited breath....”they are” he said with confidence whilst my abacus rattled on at a rate not known to exist.
“Can you save me a couple of pairs” I asked - fearful of breaking the spell and waking up. “Oiy down’t need” he said in a most accommodating way “Oiy got 800”
“KIN NELL!!” I said - trying to sound nonchalant and not to too keen - or shocked!
I arranged to go down the next week and duly loaded up the wallet in readiness.
A week later I duly set off ter’tother end o’t tearth in that 3 sided lump o’ ground known ter man as Eaearst Anglia (as in’t towd car Ford ad at yan time) 200 and 7.8 whole English country miles that seem treble that whilst you are doing them.
Christmas Day come early ha ha ha ...or not - at least 15 stillages all full - all TCN mouldboards - each and every one - every last man jack of em - all 800 -EFFIN LEFT HAND. Sinistere - gauch - cack handed - call it what you will but nonetheless no good to man nor beast and not a single right hand board in sight. After turning the place upside down we found one - laid in a puddle with a hole rotted through big enough to put my hand through. “I am sorry he said in a plaintive voice. “you come a long way?” “not arf as effin sorry as I am” I said “me just avin’ driven 207.8 whole English effin miles and thick end of a summers day to get here, all on a promise of genuine TCN mouldboards” - untold riches in everyday ploughman’s terms and mouldboard speak.
I did get some next day not a million miles away in Holt - at Kongskilde - not Kristeel but then - that’s a tale for another day.
All light years away now.......
And here is tother side of a similar story! (but without the mileage) At one of the first matches I attended, a spectator looked over my plough, and said you really need some new boards on that. I replied that I knew, but the chances of finding any were rare as they were RND`s.Spectator replied , they are about, and the plough looks worth fitting some, its going well. He then gave me his number with instructions to call him next week. This I did, and was invited to his house. He took me into the garage where there hung a pair of brand new boards.There you are, he said, to which I replied, thanks but I cant afford to buy them! Who mentioned buy, he said, take em on, they will do more good on that plough than hanging up in here!
Jimmy Chalmers told me that Kongskilde had racks of YL183 left hand boards but nobody wanted them. Though there were a fairly small number of reversibles with these boards Ransomes also made a few left hand conventional ploughs for special applications. Has anyone on here ever seen or used one of these?
Petetheploughman
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- Location
- The West Country
Sure of himself twit! Your opinions of him must be rather strong after this. Mine would be.
Shame there aren't more people around like that.