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Hallo, I posted in the conversion forum about my newly bought tractors. I was quite sure the Super Major was July 21st 1961 castingcodes saying J21F. But in a different table, later Majors from 1963 can have the same castingcode but the date would be June 21st 1963 :? That date would be one of the l...

Hi the dashboar Looks like a Diesel Major, the model ahead of the Power Major.
You shoul look for the casting codes on your tractor to identify it by the day of production.

@ Pat You are right, I think I got my present :buddies: Today I tried to identify my new toys: The Super Major ( with the french cab) should be a Juli 1961model, with corretc casting codes on all major parts. The engine has the numer S 455421, should be a replacement as far as I am informed. When I ...

Thank you janus,
the tractors will arrive on saturday

After along while searching for a 4 wd Major I found one in France http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y383/county654/IMG-20141204-WA0000_zpsootkuyeh.jpg the tractor is supposed to come along with an organ donor next week http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y383/county654/IMG-20141204-WA0002_zpsmqew...

Great,
how many hours in total did you spend in the field?
I have a couple hundret acres to work in the next weeks.
Don´t you want to come over?

Great video
How many acres do you farm with that tractor? Is real farmwork to earn maney or just for fun?
I remember when I was a kid, a Dexta was our biggest tractor on a 80 Acres mixed farm.Now adays, ussually a100 hp 4wd is used on those farms.

Hallo, the french ownwer of the page told me, it was a Someca. Those machines are very rare even in central France. At ebay uk there is a magazine availible, writting about Dhotel combines: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=dhotel&_from=R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TR...

I found a frence page with a pic of that machine
http://kivabien.jimdo.com/culture-ancie ... oberchamp/

The photo is somewhere in the middle.
I wrote an email to get further Information. As soon as I get some, I will post it here.

Hy Anderson,
your engine could be the same like one I have bought this year.
onthe last post of this thread
http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... &start=375

you find a good xplanation on the 510 prefix.

I love those tractors

The tyre size 13,6X 36 was not common 50 years ago.

The roadless manula talks about 11 x 36 in combination with 9x24.
14 x 30 can replace 11x36

Check the last pages of the following document
http://fordson.se/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3159

Hi Richard,
I was offered that Major about 2 month ago.
The Price was 6.500 € .
How much was the price on ebay? I don´t have the tractor on my watchlist.

Regards

Matthias ,
who still dreams about a Major 4x4

Double post, sorry

Hallo Richard,
congratulations

That tractor comes from northern France? Offered in ebay?

If the reason is the breather, it is available at agriline.

Thank you for the pics, Pat :thumbs: Do you think, there is a possibility to use a setup like yours in a reverse drive machine? Where would the direction of rotation be changed? The unit I was offered and Anderson´s look like yours. :? @ Kiwi You are about right in your suggestion concerning stabili...

Hi Anderson,
the unit you show in the above pics, was it installed on one tractor or are those parts from different Majors?

Hi Robert,
when I read your post, I remembered, I have heard about the the possibility to flip over the differential carrier. That should be no Problem.
The driveline for the frontaxel must have a reverse gear inside, so it won´t work in a standart tractor.

Hallo,
once in a while I read about forklifts or rearloaders based on Fordson Majors.

Is the gearbox different from the usual Major, the rearaxle or both?
Is it possible to use a four wheeldrive conversion kit out of a rearloader in a common tractor?

In conditions like yours, I think duasl would be the choice.
The rear axle will have no problem, in tractorpulling they use up to 150 hp on a Major gearbox. The power you loose when your tractor is digging tracs, is more effective in pulling, in case you use duals.

Hallo Anderson, I suppose the axelunit was installed on a Major bevor. So there should be no problem,in case you use the same wheelsizes. The value of Roadless is higher in GB, in the rest of Europe I think, there is not very much differnce, since most of the very few conversions where Selene based ...

Our Major is runing again
My son needs it for a school camping event, to run a generator.

The Party can start

Thank you Brian and Pascal for sharing thes great pictures with us.
I am shure, I will scroll them a couple mor times