As an American I must say the Brit’s have such a wonderful way of describing an experience. A lovely sensation indeed. The big thing they always miss completely or intentionally pass over in videos like this, is all it’s drawbacks and failures and how deadly dangerous the Fordson tractor was to operators.
I spent many hours in the seat of a Ford son Power Major in the 1970's hoeing sugar beet with my father on the back steering the hoeing implement, we had a Super Major as well and that had a front end loader which we used for muck carting and also loading hay/straw bales, happy memories and a world away from the modern tractors we see today, cheers from the UK.
Thanks for your stories! Mark. My dad was born 1918 when he was alive he told me his dad purchased a fordson 1920’s he had it a week and drove it back to town and traded for a mcormick Deering the early fordsons would turn over backwards Ford tractors were good!!!
@@traderjack6151 My stepfather was born 1923 as my natural father died 1973 when I had just turned 6, but that's another story. No safety cabs in those days although we did fit a roll bar to prevent the operator being crushed to death as tipping over was a real issue back on those old machines.
Very good. At 15 I left home in Arkansas to find work in Texas. I had never been on a tractor so naturally my first job was driving a tractor. Driving 8n and 9n Fords in the hayfields of East Texas. There is just a feeling you get when you drive onto a field for the first time.
I always figured Henry Ford was born rich so his company literally popped out of nowhere. I figured you just took ideas that many men were having but to get to the point of mass production you need to sink some serious cash into it initially. I'm happy to be corrected. He was just a farm boy wanting to save farmers backs from breaking. They're like what IBM was to computers and accounting later on.
Henry Ford was a lot of things, an idiot savant, egomaniacal, anti semite, socialist, and stubborn as a rock. but there’s no denying he put the world on wheels and brought power farming to the smaller farmers.
Fiat bought out New holland (At the time was machinary like balers, foragers etc) in the late 80's, and then bout out Ford in the early 90's as the market during that time for tractor selling was Crippled due to ressession in many places leaving the agricutual landscape bleak. Fiat then turned into FiatAgri, FA Was a brownish colour, some new holland tractors to date will come with the colour as a special model. Also in the time FiatAgri Also bought out Case International Harvester (the two brands liquidated prior) And began to form what is knowen today as "CNH. Case-New-Holland", Which obviously sells case and new holland. The blue being New holland was ford. The case being Red for internional Harvester. Real shame ford sold out as one of the farms i work on always bout fords from 1940's up to 1980's when they started to intergrate electronics onto them. If you ever look at early model New hollands, look at the last generation of ford tractors. EXACLY the same. A Ford 8770 is exacly the same as the later famous TM Series New Holland tractors which also came in varients of Blue Or Brown colour paintjob. This series went from 110HP - 190HP, the "TM150" Meaning the TM series with 150hp. Although 150HP+ Range were notorious for failing brakes as the oil would overheat causing brakefade on the wet brake liners.
Hi professor i am currently using Fordson super major tractor. However i am using one but stud on break down due to rear hydraulic lift pump faulty. Where can One get pump.how much?
But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe
Lovely "olde worlde" programme and very well explained development of a fabulous tractor family. What has always puzzled me, a tractor is meant to tow, why does it appear (to me) that the rear tyres on a tractor are the wrong way around. Surely, the grip would be better with the two tread pattern being in a "grabbing" form rather than sharp edge first, just a thought....
@@fazer2474 Thanks for that, makes sense, it's just that a shape that grabs seems better than one that is like a boat prow shape, especially when pulling a load. But I can see what you mean.
... also the tyre is being squeezed together rather than pulled apart which would eventually split the rubber tyre down the middle, I hope you don't mind me adding my bit as I really enjoyed this video too.
I have a calender of tractors and it says they were built in Ireland. Here they mention Hercules engines. I hadn't heard that before. I have a 1945 general electric welder with a 4cyl Hercules motor I think hercules became continental used by Massey Ferguson. Among others
That's why you keep a 1/2" spanner in the toolbox. 3rd gear is most common, you learn to move the stick more directly, and it helps to build up the tip of the shifter with some bronze.
I'ts very interesting, but a motivation to help solve wider social issues produces iconic machines better than wish for money. Soichiro Honda also had a desire to help people with their struggles - and Honda is the result! Then we have Elon Musk, whose primary motivation is also improvement (and i don't think he is quite done yet). So yea it's a good motivation. far superior to making a buck.
@@paulcallan8714 you would also find I very offended harry Ferguson if he was alive today to see you calling him Irish. Perhaps you should learn your history on the man. Before you start telling people something that is completely wrong
