Great video , I served my time with my father in the sixtys and seventys changing wheel widths all year round from beet drills @ 24 inch to turnip drills @ 26 inch to potato drills @ 28 inch , the drills were made and sown the were grubbed for weeding then the potatos were earthed up then spraying was done ,the beet and turnips for the fly and the potatoes for blight ,all in all i suppose wheel widths were changed twenty times a year and the jack shown in video was used , it brings it all back to me thanks for that later on we got a couple more tractors so they could be left at a different setting each . Thanks again because it is the only memory of my late father that i can look back on with nostalga
I have the same jack with the hollow tube but I also got hold of a solid rear bar one that I show on my gold 35 petrol sometimes. We will be starting a full restoration on a 1948 TEA20 over the next month or two and we will do a series on it on my channel. I just finished a John Deere 420H so time for the next one.
Looks like a nice original jack. Might be a little hard to setup. Probably why not too many people bought that optional accessory. I wondered why there's extra pins under there. I figured they were for some sort of belly mower or something. I can't using it on soft ground.
I have a chance to buy one of these but hesitate because If using this to actually Change a Tire or work on the tractor brakes etc. , wouldn't the weight shift when you remove one wheel and cause it to be very unstable? I love the mechanics and think it's an ingenius device but not convinced it is safe, especially on soft ground.
This was used by farmers when they had to adjust the widths of the wheels for different row cropping applications. They would use this jack and adjust them all at once.
For those that don't know these were used mostly for changing wheel widths for row crops or steep hills. Spin the rear wheels around to go wider and then slide the front axles outwards or inwards for desired width. Ford sold these too with their 8N tractors.
the lift was made by ferguson to lift just a specific tractor.part of the feguson system. My grand father had one and what a machine. it was used for everything. wore out and rebuilt many times.
We had one of these for an 8n ford when I was young and wish I had all the measurements to build one as I now have a to20 and a l2900 kubota I think it will work on
The competitive spirit that shows up below in the comments is pitifully rude, immature and disrespectful. Very cool rig ploughmyfield. Can you tell me how to email you so that I can get the dimensions from you and make one for my jubilee? thanks.
Fun, but not too practical. I could have it jacked up with a plain old hydraulic jack before you could get your blade off and get this thing on. Then you'd still have to take it off to get your implement back on. But possibly I'm missing something??? How often do you put four tires on?
Was wondering if u may beable to take measurements of your jacks here and draw what it looks like. Im a welder and would like to fab one for the 65 MF pls and thank your. I u can let me know and I can give u my email
what on earth is the point of your argument? did you read the descriptions and reason out that it is a great thing and easier on your back to lift it that way? back in the days people used to invent proper and despite not being concerned about pollution they had great equipment which did the job and lasted. i wonder if it would be easier to do it for a small b7001 kubota whose rear wheels can be set on three stages along the axle shafts :) time for some fabbrication :D thanks for the idea
Whether or not I make a video does not change my opinion but I am still not going to make a video, I have more important things to do with my time. Now, the Jack does still get used when we need to take the extra wheels off the tractor but as the only job it is really used for these days is rolling a silage heap and it needs the double wheels for that, the wheels do not get taken off very often and the jack is not needed regularly. Now I have said it once and I will say it again, GET A LIFE.
I am not going to take time out of my day to go and start a tractor that basically drinks diesel just to lift it up and prove a point to someone that wants to do nothing other than insult me. And besides that I already said the jack is somewhere, meaning I don't actually know where it is at the moment. My farm is a big place and the thing has not been used for a few years now. The jack could be anywhere and until we need it I am not going to waste time finding it. NOW GO AND GET A LIFE.
what on earth is the point of that. that is an absolute wast of space. get rid of the stupid jack as you call it, put a slasher or a plow on it and go do something practical with it.
The Ferguson Tractor jack you see here dates from the 1940's. The TE20 was designed for use on small farms. Most of which probably didn't possess a bottle jack. The Tractor jack enabled the operator to raise the tractor under it's own power. It would have been used mostly to change the wheel track rather than changing wheels. Also the TEF20 doesn't drink lots of diesel. Besides, once the tractor is raised you can switch off the engine.
We have two TE 20 Ferguson's on our farm and we certainly don't have anything this stupid to lift them up. What we do have someware is a jack made from two hydraulic rams that was powered by a hydraulic pump attached to the front of the engine. It worked a lot better than that and it could be used on other tractors because it was a hell of a lot stronger and wasn't designed for one specific tractor. It still gets used today to lift the 4050 John Deere to remove and attach the double wheels.
Hi could you tell me where I can get one of these Ferguson Tractor Jack? We live in Germany and I cant find one. we own a MF 135 build in 1965. And we need it really soon. Thank you. Britta
just like to say that this device is not only for changing tyres but it is also usefull for changing the width of the tractor by changing the rear wheels around and swapping them over and moving the front wheel bolts on the rack also turning them over too gives an extra width to the machine for straddling rows of crops. tried to explain the best i could hope its clear enough.
