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- Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:03 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
- Replies: 8
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Re: pallet forks
I thought most of the curved cones and drive shaft adjustments used In these machines were subject to various patents by Henry Bamford in about 1890? Given the 70 years or so when very similar machines were being turned out by various manufacturers it looks as though any such patents were widely lic...
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:02 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16064
Re: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
I thought most of the curved cones and drive shaft adjustments used In these machines were subject to various patents by Henry Bamford in about 1890? Given the 70 years or so when very similar machines were being turned out by various manufacturers it looks as though any such patents were widely lic...
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:46 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16064
Re: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
Thanks Rick. I think the mill weighs about half a ton. I have it bolted to a good pallet which I can load onto a small trailer with a set of pallet forks, then pull with the car or the Major. I can't help with the "Eureka", but I did come across an "Albion" very similar to my Bamford but smaller, ne...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:29 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
- Replies: 8
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Restored Bamford No.3 Rapid grinding mill
Found locally last Summer, not used in 40 years and with parts broken. Now fully restored thanks to some brilliant local engineering and a few days hard work. Found a belt and ran it earlier today. Hope to be showing it at the 3 Counties Royal Show in June. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8665/163855...
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:05 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Rear lights - 1953 New Major
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5667
Re: Rear lights - 1953 New Major
The chain came with the tractor. I bought it from a collector who also had a haulage firm and I suspect they might have fabricated the link arm chain in their workshop. It is simple but effective. If anyone wants more photos I'll post some. Let me know
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:09 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Rear lights - 1953 New Major
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5667
Rear lights - 1953 New Major
My tractor was built in September 1953 when, I believe , UK lighting regulations for tractors were changed to include rear lights where lights were fitted to a tractor, instead of just head and side lights. The rear lights on my tractor look original and there is no sign that they are a more recent ...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Manual for a Henry Bamford rapid grain mill (or similar)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4895
Manual for a Henry Bamford rapid grain mill (or similar)
I have just finished rebuilding a No 3 Bamford rapid corn mill which I hope to be showing next Summer, working at the 3 Counties show in Worcestershire. The thing looks simple enough, but I would really like to get at a manual of this, or a similar mill, so I don't damage it by setting it up wrong. ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:25 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Lift arm travel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7687
Re: Lift arm travel
Thanks chaps. I don't really want to interfere with lift arm settings that have been set where they are probably for the last 60 years, and work with my PM plough, and all the other tools I have, so will get a pair of angle iron brackets fitted by my local engineers to set the pins up a foot or so a...
- Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: Fordson New Major
- Topic: Lift arm travel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7687
Lift arm travel
I have just bought a set of three point linkage pallet forks and have a problem. On full lower travel the lift arms are not low enough to ground the implement which can get no nearer the ground than 6",and the check chains are very tight ( The lifting pins on the implement are 700mm apart). Spent al...
- Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:45 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10196
Re: Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
So now I know just how carefully you need to adjust stuff on a plough! nice weather yesterday, went back for day 2 and the plough worked just fine all day. Very many thanks to Henk! <iframe src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/31231726@N03/15007036346/in/photostream/player/" width="75" height="75" fra...
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:16 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10196
Re: Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
Dear Henk;
Spot on! Mine now set up the same, so looking forward to getting back in the field tomorrow morning!
Many thanks;
David
Spot on! Mine now set up the same, so looking forward to getting back in the field tomorrow morning!
Many thanks;
David
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 6:53 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10196
Setting up a PM plough crosshaft
Went to the local vintage club "shine up" today and some one mentioned my cross shaft needed adjusting to get an equal front furrow width (10"). Spent the afternoon tinkering until the plough wouldn't work at all! Does anyone have a diagram/photo or set of instructions for setting up the cross shaft...
- Thu May 29, 2014 12:05 pm
- Forum: Ford and Fordson Conversions
- Topic: J17 crawler
- Replies: 33
- Views: 65886
Re: J17 crawler
Really looking forward to seeing the finished job! Superb so far.
- Fri Apr 18, 2014 6:13 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Attaching FR PM plough points
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9018
Re: Attaching FR PM plough points
VMT. Everything I need to know! Regards; David
- Fri Apr 18, 2014 6:08 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Attaching FR PM plough points
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9018
Re: Attaching FR PM plough points
VMT. Everything I need to know! Regards; David
- Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:36 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Attaching FR PM plough points
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9018
Attaching FR PM plough points
I have a 2 furrow PM with Epic bodies. It all works fine but I am puzzled about how the points are fixed on the (epic) bodies. One has a wooden peg with a red top, the other has a bent nail. Should I be worried?
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:41 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: Ransomes trailed mole plough - size & weight
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5738
Ransomes trailed mole plough - size & weight
I am considering buying a trailed Ransomes Mole plough and have found one 170 miles away which might go at a price I can afford. Does anyone know what size they are? If I get it I will need to fetch it and am hoping it will fit my 7'x4' trailer ( The length isn't a huge issue but the width is. They ...
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
I would have thought the land slides compacted the vertical outside edge of the furrow, so that the wearing surface would be the outside vertical one? I am pretty sure this is an original item on my plough, and have now found two photos of other PM ploughs which seem to show plain landslides with no...
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:10 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
I notice there is no heel at the rear landslide. Is this correct? Mine has a DMD4 heel http://www.westlakeploughparts.co.uk/160366-ransomes-dmd-body-plough-parts.html Good Morning Henk; I assume the heel is held on using plough bolts so that the face of the landslide remains smooth? I will go out a...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:19 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion - cured
Put the new 665 boards on my plough over the weekend, newly painted and greased. One had the original Ransomes sprayed on stencil makers name in white. The good folk at Angliagraphicsigns.com made me two very nice replicas in vinyl which add a really nice touch. At £10 the decals were much easier on...
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:02 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
Went and picked up the boards yesterday. What a place! a shed full of 40s & 50s tractors inc at least 3 E27Ns, a couple of acres of ploughs, parts and other impliments, and four shop soiled but NOS Ransomes 665 boards,(They have NOS Kristeel 41k and 39s as well) possibly the last in the country? The...
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:28 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
Westlake could not be more helpful! It seems there are three possible mouldboards for a PM plough, and they have all three. I will get one of the old ones off again and take it over to Peterborough by the end of the week to make sure I get the right ones. May I ask what he is charging for mouldboar...
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:17 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
Westlake could not be more helpful! It seems there are three possible mouldboards for a PM plough, and they have all three. I will get one of the old ones off again and take it over to Peterborough by the end of the week to make sure I get the right ones.
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:10 am
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: EPIC mouldboard confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 32054
Re: EPIC mouldboard confusion
My Robin parts list lists both 41K & 39K boards. Stays are different pn's. Only one frog 1739, is listed. Do your 'new' 41K boards fit? :wink: No . The stays are too long, and the holes in the frog don't seem quite right. The one thing I didn't measure was the distance between the two bolt holes at...
- Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:21 pm
- Forum: Tools and Implements
- Topic: New plough - anybody know what it is? FR PM ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32735
Re: New plough - anybody know what it is? FR PM ?
Brian; Many many thanks. That is really very helpful and explains the controls very well. I agree that the EPIC heads I have are certainly giving a good result. I think it is a very early PM, it is certainly carrying the FR mark on the makers plate, and I like the idea of using it near where it was ...