Watching your videos makes me really miss my old grey Fergies I had a diesel and a PP too restored the PP one when I was about 10 in the summer holidays. Might have to get another one day.
You lucky man, Atkinsons, Ferguson and Massey Ferguson. All my favourite English toys. Well done. Keep it up, I watch your videos avidly. A WISHFUL YORKSHIRE PROUD ENGLISHMAN CHRIS R
Never knew you could wind the PTO with the Fergie spanner to lift the link arms Richard, love the taco meter running off the dynamo, another great video .
G’day from Oz, when I was a lot younger I worked with a couple of young Pommey blokes ; they called that spanner “Heavy Harry”. We call those discs on the plough coulter discs and they run in front of the shears to open up the furrow. Those tractors revolutionised farming in this and many other countries ; we literally went from horses to tractors with them in one step. Cheers.
When I was a kid ,bout 60yrs ago, we had a Standard Vanguard car, and my dad said it was the same engine as a Massey Ferguson tractor. It did start well....😂
Great video, as was said in a few other comments rocking the pto shaft back & forth using the spanner between the check chains has the same effect… raises the lift. It can also be used to rotate the plough cross-shaft to adjust the front furrow width if there’s no front furrow width adjustment handle fitted… Enjoy you videos and admire your tractors & shed… very tidy. Keep up the good work.
I realky like the vedio , im going to have to find a spanner now . Harry Ferguson was well ahead of his time with the Tea 20 and 25 and the ferguson system proff of the reliability they sre still going today .
While lifting the 3pl with the spanner- no need to take the spanner off the pto shaft , just slip the spanner on the shaft and work it back an forward, it still looks lifts! Enjoyed the video
Brilliant video Mr B. I'm sure Harry Ferguson would be proud of what you have done, you've got a brilliant set up there pal, my family our farmers, I'm not I went in the forces, but I still go up and get stuck in with them when we're bailing, 😊
Only you could make a video about a spanner interesting. Iam a Ford man but my favourite program as a child was about grey fergy and 3 point linkage. Iam sure it was narrated by John peel
Just came across your channel, you have some nice things. What did I use a Ferguson spanner for you ask? Well my dad had a TEA 20 and when I finally reached the age thirteen (well nearly, ha) I was sent to turn or row up a field of hay with a Blanch Lely six wheel rake. I came across a myxomatosis rabbit that was on its last legs. Not wishing to run it over with the rake I dispatched it with the only thing I had at hand, the fergy spanner, a quick bash across the back its neck and it was out of it, gone to the happy hunting ground to join its mates. Sorry but I had no other option, I had to put it out of its misery. It’s funny the things you can still recall like it was yesterday, getting on for sixty five years later. Incidently, I still have a blue/silver lapel badge with the Ferguson System tractor that one of my brothers brought back for me from the Yorkshire Show in the late fifties sometime, they were giving them away to anyone who showed an interest in the stuff they had at the stand apparently.
Evening Mr B brilliant the video as usual👍🏼 trying to find the diesel cranked shaft Ferguson spanner is like trying to find hens teeth, I believe you don’t have to do a full rotation on the pto in order to raise the link arms I’m sure you can just rock in forth and back, not sure if you knew this if not might be worth a try faster than doing full rotations Thanks
I have a TE20 modell 17 centimeters long with the 7 millimeter spanner in the toolbox. ( made in China of all places). The spanner is so small it's hard to pick it up with your fingers, imagine my suprise when I found out that small box opened and finding that famous spanner inside, ( it is an incerdible detailed modell.
I used to have four little grey Fergies..... but I let them go as I had nowhere to keep them. And now I have a smallholding and no Fergy 😢..... although I do now have a Solis 26
Hello mate , interesting video , after reading the books I have about Harry Ferguson , Sir David brown , Henry Ford etc , never before have I seen one mention of The Freeman Sanders Engine Company , have you got any more info on these , be great to see it on here please , did they get absorbed into another company , like Perkins or leyland , it would be interesting to know , best regards .
Good one mr b, i guess the thing we forget is there would have been shortages of steel and raw materials after the war so making common size nuts and bolts and one spanner fits all enabeld mr ferguson build and sell an affordable tractor to a large market, did you get a box of taties to come home with😊
Question: Around 04:28 I notice you have what looks to be a NOS / 1960's period looking CAV 296 type filter. Very smart indeed. I would be interested to know (if possible) where you were able to source it from? I have been looking for reference images online for that particular style but have only been able to find photos of the later filters with a black and blue stripe. I ask because I would like to design a vinyl that I can have printed to cover a modern equivalent filter I bought for a 1965 Southern Cross EFE which I am in the process of cleaning up. Many thanks.
Yes. They are like a vinyl sticker on top of a normal filter. I have just been onto eBay to try and find you a link and they look to have gone? So I am not sure why. Perhaps keep looking on there to see if the come back on.
Great video. I noticed that the bolts and nuts were a common size on my TEA20 Ferguson tractor and the plough I have with it. Very smart thinking. What does the A stand for in the TEA 20. I know the what the TE and TO stands for. And I use to know what the A stands for, but I’ve forgotten. I live in PEI, Canada. Have a great day.
There were lots of them in West Donegal when I was growing up in the 1960s. There were the perfect size for the small fields and the narrow country lanes. Also light enough for carting turf (peat) on the bogs.
I remember my grandfather dipping the fuel tank with the spanner. I always thought the markings on it were a measure of fuel capacity, not length...but I was only a kid at the time. His Fergie was the TEA - yep in Aust.
Same engine with little changes. The later ones like mine had the fuel lift pump. Mine is a cow to start in the cold unless you give her a little pre heat and a squirt of diesel. She is away.
