The Fordson Tractor Pages Forum

If anyone is interested, there's some nice shots of our tractors here: http://maskin.b20power.com/#home

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Very nice, i like the instrument panel brilliant. Why do you have 2 batteries

Tiger wrote:Very nice, i like the instrument panel brilliant. Why do you have 2 batteries

Thank you!

2 batteries because they are of the "cheap" kind and 2x 60ah makes 120ah when in parallell, I'm allergic to not having enough "juice" when I want to start him up so...

Looks like you are doing a good job fixing and painting it. Should be nice nice when you are done. Dandy Dave!

Foxen wrote:If anyone is interested, there's some nice shots of our tractors here: http://maskin.b20power.com/#home

Feedback would be nice

I like the bracket you have made to give the drawbar carrier better support. For me this is the worst part that ford designed on the fordson. It is a pin joint supported only on one side. You have corrected it! Many times I have considered making such a modification as it does not look "right" in engineering terms as standard!

Roadless63 wrote:

Foxen wrote:If anyone is interested, there's some nice shots of our tractors here: http://maskin.b20power.com/#home

Feedback would be nice

I like the bracket you have made to give the drawbar carrier better support. For me this is the worst part that ford designed on the fordson. It is a pin joint supported only on one side. You have corrected it! Many times I have considered making such a modification as it does not look "right" in engineering terms as standard!

I agree
If you want I can send you the DWG files of the neccessary parts?

Quite a bunch of updates on the super major at the above link...

Hey Foxen,
If I were to make a guess, I'd say you are a machinist! Those brass knobs on your dar valve look home made. And the quality cuts of the metal pieces you made for under your seat look good to.
I wish someone with a major would come my way here in Kentucky, the more I read you all's threads the more I want one.
You're doing a good job, just keep it up and keep us posted.

Mark wrote:Hey Foxen,
If I were to make a guess, I'd say you are a machinist! Those brass knobs on your dar valve look home made. And the quality cuts of the metal pieces you made for under your seat look good to.
I wish someone with a major would come my way here in Kentucky, the more I read you all's threads the more I want one.
You're doing a good job, just keep it up and keep us posted.

I'm self-taught mostly, have worked as a laser operator so I know what can be done with one

The drawings and models have been made by me, laser cut by my neighbor which is working as a laser operator and the knobs where drawn by me and machined by one of dads' friends I wish I had a lathe and a mill myself, would make life easier

Get a major, they are a wonderful piece of machinery!

Today has been the great "S"-day, the day I started the super major up just to see if it would still run... and it would! So, whoever deemed the SPE4A75S pump I got for free from my dad's cousin trash was wrong and all it took was a new membrane, a new drive shaft seal and some oil to make it work it's magic again... Me is in heaven

Anyone feel like a good laugh? It's coming right up if you read through this post(although I didn't laugh at the time)

This Friday I had decided that I'd fix up the bolts for the lower drag links of the 3pt lift on my super major, one of them was worn and "floppy" and was suspiciously oily(cracked rear axle housing?), I started out good the day before by getting myself two used but not-so-worn ones from dad's cousin, washed them clean with diesel and dried them off, then I "stole" the pressure line from dad's winch crane and used that and the aux port on my tractor to pump out approx 30 litres of oil into two canisters, during this operation the only plug I didn't replace the seal on developed a leak...

Anyways, I had one linkage of the older kind that had stuck, using heat and violence I got it to move a few millimetres in each direction, so I thought that I'd try and pull it out with the help of the 3pt linkage on the super major, I chained a iron bar lever in the drawbar and situated the drag link under it, chained it in so it couldn't slip to the side, hooked up the linkage to the lift arm and proceeded to lift a little bit... big dissapointment, the iron bar lever is now crooked but everything else held up good :/

Later on I had the tractor backed up into the gravel pile to make sure that the remaining oil was near the front end of the rear axle and dismounted the two old and worn bolts(below the drive shafts) and noticed that one of the mounting holes on the left one was either cracked or simply "going through" into the oil compartement inside, I cleaned the surfaces off and smeared the plates with gasket goo and some hydraulics sealant in the threads of the screws, mounted it all back up and moved back into the garage to refill the oil, the first can with only 10 litres of oil in it worked fine, the second one didn't go well at all... as soon as I had situated the little tap at the end over the hole in the rear axle it broke off and fell down into the rear axle!

half an hour later and another trip backwards up the gravel pile I had gotten it out from there by removing the PTO box and axle.

One absolutely perfect day, eh?

Some days chicken, some days feathers. Eh mate. Dandy Dave!

In that case friday was certainly all feathers
Tomorrow will be a better day, an extra gear lever to fix up before I assemble it and two 750mm tall pieces of 10mm thick, 50mm wide flat steel to strengthen the lower drag links(they won't bend sideways that way) and hopefully the paint on my "new" front wheels will have dried so I can mount them instead of the old crappy ones(they both have nice "inspection holes" through the outer rubber layer into the cord)

New pictures of the work in progress

http://maskin.b20power.com/#6.171