The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

Thank you for the Information and the link.

Would be great to hear from owners of a winch about the Details.

Hallo,
over here in Germany we hardly find a Boughton winch.
Now I was offerd a Modell 205.
Does anyone know, what time they were build?
It is a two Speed Version, what would be the pulling potential?

Kind regards
Matthias

Didn´t have County leather seals on the rear axle?

Hallo,
your problem is not the axle, your problem will be the gearbox .
A reconditioned unit should have both.

What would be a good Price for a Roadless Major?

Two or three times a year I seee an offer here in Germany and the surounding countries.

Hi Jasper,
never heard about Brockhouse gearboxes
Is it the gearbox for the fourwheeldrive?
Can you Show us a Picture.
Thats an impressiv tractor

The larger rear bearing is pretty expensiv, I think it was round about 150€ , but I am not sure.
Look for a replacement rea rend. In Belgium it should be no Problem to find them.

Hallo Matthias,
you are right, it looks like some rollers are missing in the bearing. I have the same with one of my Majors sitting in the barn for almost two years.

No one on here has mentioned Brexit but we might just have dodged the bullet here in Great Britain. I understand that the EU are looking into removing all vehicles above a certain age from the roads. You can still own "Historic Vehicles" but they must not be used other than to show and must be trai...

I have got one of those lying in the shop

Was it common in the early days to be driving a tractor in a standing position?
I have seen it in the US, a guy was driving in a hayfield with a windrower. The seats were not very much plasure driving all day at higer speeds

A tractordealer in the neighbourhood is offering a Dexta Major 4x4 at the moment.
I have never seen one in real, so I went there this morning.
Price would be 8.000 € .
I have to many unfinished projekts, otherwise I might be interesteed in buying it.

Yes I also think that the chain version won't be very strong. .. Hallo, If you are afraid, a single chain won´t be strong enough, look for "duplex chain" or even "triplex chain" https://www.google.de/search?q=duplex+chain&biw=1097&bih=563&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_n-rHrt7MAhVhLZoKHWpHC...

I think this tractor has never been a 4X4.
A transfer gearbox will be more expensive than the whole tractor itself

Over here in Germany this http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y383/county654/IMAG0373_zps1q6libco.jpg used to be the common practice for passenger Transport. Usually one passenger seat was manifested in the papers. I can remember, when I was a child, we used to have a Dexta having a woden board behi...

I ´don´t think it is a Roadless
Looks more like a County X000-4 to me.

Can you post some pictures of the lefthand gearbox and rearaxle?
County didn´t have a transferbox.

Hallo, the difference in total size is about 7 cm or 3 ". When you divide it by two the difference in hight of the rear tractor is 1.5" or 3,5 cm. I don´t think that will be visual. You can try the differenc by parking your tractor on a 1,5 " board. Here http://www.en.working-tyres.eu/ you can check...

Hi Peter,
it could be an opportunity.
Please send a whattsapp mail to my cellphone. I do have your number in the phonelist, but I can´t get it to the whatsapplist
I have some photos already I can share with you.

Hallo, I got a phonecall last night, a guy who was parttime worker on a farm in Germany asked me, where to sell a County 1454. The ownwer died, his widoew has to sell several Ford tractors and this special County. The tractor was the big workhorse on the farm ´has god tyres and is in good working co...

Hi Dave,
what kind of belt driven implement is in front of that tractor?

Hi 44,

check the "Tools and Implements" forum. There are several plough discussions.
Here: http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... f=6&t=5377
you see a couple Pictures of my Power Major with a 3 furrow plough. Main Problem is the missing diff lock on Power Majors

My Majors all start real easy, so I allways use old batteries I take out of my working tractors.
Even the 590 E 6 Zylinder has no problem starting with an older battery. Replacement batteries for the working fleet are allways the "Optima Red Top" like Jan mentioned.

Realy nice, over here in Germany it is not the salty air, but we have scrap metal recycling in the nearby steelindustrie for centuries. After WW2 all aroud some colletion businesses started collecting and buying old machinery and scrapmetal. That is the main reason, why many of those old glory tract...

Brian wrote:
Fordson Major Diesel between 1954 and 1957 I would suspect.

.......with incorrect colour on the rims. The Fordsons out of that time had a blue/orange combination.

Hallo Jan, you could try to contact http://www.atosborneltd.co.uk/page9.htm in GB. They have the spares and documents of the County tractors. They might be able to give you Support. I orderd a new driveshaft for my County Super 4 almost two years ago. Try to calll them, since computing is not their ...

Hi Gman,
here is a photo of the steering gear:

I think the plug is only to reach with the dieseltank removed.