Are we all driving TRACTORS

[escortmad79]

i've got

 

fordson standard n

Lucky git! They're nice looking tractors

[105Nick]

My parents have a TE20 too, its the next project. Its been sat outside for 25 yearsor so, we sawed down the tree growing between its axles and tugged it out with the Land Rover, stuck a new battery on, changed the fuel and cleaned the plugs and it started strauight up New tyres fitted and it drove well too with the same clutch Its waiting for me to get my car done, my dad to finish the Issetta and then it can go in the shed and have the clutch fitted. We also have a Barford 2-wheeled tractor but its siezed. One of the locals is nuts about them, he has a full farmyard full of old tractors and stuff, last time we went down there he tried to sell me two Austin A35a and three Rover P5 V8s He's got some really rare stuff including three early Allis Calmers rowcroppers on steel wheels with the plough under the gearbox and some old David Brown crawlers, though a few years ago he outbid us on a 1939 Fordson N half track. It was part of a collection, and had one owner from new Most were used to tow Spitfires and teh like during the war, but it had tugged a few trees out, probably due to the size of fields expanding hence loss of hedgrows and been sat in the collection. He told me to drive it at a ploghing match, it was a pain in the arse to be honest, you turn the wheels and the tracks just keep pushing it forwards, even using the wheel brakes to swing it round. He's got another N and a Marshall, that uses a shotgun cartridge to start the single cylinder in place of a spark plug. His aren't particularly restored, just kept running, so they have more oil over them than paint, which is original, which make s quite a nice change from restored ones.

 

there's a few early ones on here;

http://historylink101.com/lessons/farm- ... actors.htm

[LUKE261]

not that one sam, but same engine n that, ive got a garden trctor aswel louie mines a trojan.

 

i did my tractor test on a te20 grey fergie

 

id love a fordson model n with a perkins p6 diesel in it, perfect for a ploughing match with a nice 3 furrow

[Chris!]

i want a tractor