I was admiring one of these at an agricultural show in Wales. It was brand new and had a seven furrow plough on the back. In an imaginary leap, I pictured myself either on the tractor pulling that plough or as the tractor itself, tensing up slightly. At that moment I felt a light impact on my right shoulder and turning, I saw that I had knocked a woman to the dirt. She was wearing a ‘twin set’ and still clutching her handbag tightly. A group of about five or six men in suits gathered around me, reaching for the insides of their jackets. My girlfriend said ‘Do you know who that was?’ ‘No’ ‘It was Mrs Thatcher!’ Mrs Thatcher was whisked away quickly. Honestly, it was a very light impact and over she went… Always admired Fordson Counties, though there was little need for their power or seven furrow ploughs in my part of Wales. Mostly it is sheep farming😉 Mrs Thatcher was wasting her time. No Conservative MP has ever been elected there.
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When I saw him bashing on the gear box and the start, trying to find low 1st and then no roll bar, there was only one way this could end. Nuts! Park it in the shed and let someone else drive it.
The tractor will do the fording of the stream but the sides are steep and soft wet .and it would need more momentum to get out of the other side This chap is much lacking in the the experience to be trying this stunt .and the tyres are not brand new and there possibly are not ballasted either. So the moral to the story is watch and learn boy .before trying yourself and you should have a roll over protection bar fitted ....
I used to shore gravel 60 years ago in the ordinary super Major with lime spreading balloon tires. Major did not have a good performance reputation for soft ground or the beach, you had to work them differently. You had to load the hitch as much as possible to take the weight of the front. My father taught me how to pull the full load up over the gravel banks. Would think that if you could get up enough speed that would help but , no. That bottom crawl gear that he was using was the same one thst I used. I just sat and waited, having a smoke as the big balloon tires sunk down and tbe pin on tbe hitch disappeared under the gravel. If you speeded up like this guy did, she would just drop, instead, I just did a fast tick over about 800rpm and let her pull away through the gravel bank. She would just drum along in diff lock with the 5 ton trailer behind and maybe take 10 minutes to cover the 20 yards but there would be no spinning or abuse. Once I got to know that this worked perfectly every time, I settled down and got to trust it. There would be old guys running up to me and telling me to "opener up", , "Give her a chance give her the stick" I was only a lad at the time but I politely declined their advice. Then some loon with a crop master or a T20 would go down my track and get bogged for half a day., I would see the tracks when I returned tbe following day. I would just drop into that low low gear and trundle over the lot. It took me years to figure out what was going on and why we were able to successfully pull our loads over the Large gravel banks. The gravel was very big , say 4 to 6 inches in diameter., when tbe Major began climbing tbe gravel bank from the Beach, I would first drive in In 2nd, gently, then lock the break and pull the lever up into the low selection gears and then 1st in the big lever. She would hesitate for 20 seconds or so, Would would think she was sinking but no, she was just settling in to get a grip and then we would move very slowly up the gravel banks. I believe that our Major was tbe only tractor back then that could do that, come out unaided with the full load. When tbe Major was moving forward, just ticking over, the whole tractor was gently bouncing up and down to the slow rev of the engine. I believe that this unique action forced the large pebbles or round stones to slot together to compress as if being vibrated into place and then the tractor for get purchase with tbe Baloons. If I felt that maybe she was sinking too deep, I would shut down tbe revs even further, Maybe back up 3 ft and just tick over the lot. The place itself was pretty scary and when the tide turned you could lose your tractor and trailer to the swirling waters. It was my first real job and I took to it like a duck to water.,I was happy there. I remember the raw icy March winds that cut to the bone but I was warm with the shovelling. I had my own cafe, I had my break in tbe Caves as the wind whipped the sand into a yellow soup. I look back on those days with fondness, I was eating like a horse and growing like a bad weed..I always had a soft spot for the Majors ever since.
"County Tractors Ltd" can only convert the tractor to 4WD, and you'll note that it's a true 4WD, so when you apply the diff-lock, all four wheels have a solid drive all the way from the engine, but they can't convert humans into tractor drivers! The question is, what in Sam Hill was the point of that? The last time I saw a Fordson Major of any ilk in a situation remotely like that, it was because its driver had died of a heart attack at the wheel.
Smart that he did not try harder harm or burn the clutch or get himself more stuck. It looks to me that the slower u do it the more power it needs, can someone explain to me what is the meaning of low gear ratio or short ratio and that stuff? what is it used for and why?
@@stevecharette4421 No they were not at that angle the crank would be experiancing oil strvation just low revs saved the day I know from experiance.They are a simple wet sump engine .
Hello from the country you are. I like you and I want to work on your farm, because I love raising animals. I also have a tractor driver, etc. Will you help me to come with you if you have no objection?
If you'd had one set of tyres, perhaps the fronts, on the other way around and you'd have reverses back out of that 'predicament' i.e the tyres grip best withe to V facing forward re top of tyre. That aside what an earth are you playing at; bit silly hey?
Crawler gear?? He has no idea how to drive a tractor and, that was just a dumb thing to try. Once those tires filled with mud, and since he has no momentum, he's done.
Its funny how humans always way until its to late and dug themselves into a hole. Or never prepare ahead of time. Now the smart thing would have been to have another Truck or tractor on the other side and chained to his tractor to wench it over or pull it over. Or actually taken 4 or 6, 4"x4"x8' boards and just laid them across.
