Another Restfull Day

Post by **Brian** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:56 pm

Had a few hours with Dotty on the PM plough! I took James's advice and bought a pair of Dual Category lower link arms for her from Agrline. OK, so they are made for the dreaded M-F but they fit and are now painted blue!

When they arrived I found they had a different designed balls and the standard ones would not fit but Agriline soon got me the ones I needed. So now I can use my range of TS59s and the PM on Dotty.

Don't think I will try the TS82 although we did have a customer who used one on a 3000.

As it was a nice morning and people wanted some short work ploughed, I hitched Dotty to the PM and off we went.

She handled it beautifully, purring up and down and was much easier to turn at the end of each run than either Nuffy or Henrietta.

The land is still very wet but the fresh ploughed bits dryed quickly. Some is too wet to even try and I did start to drop in on one piece but quickly lifted the plough and left that for another day.

Lots of nice comments about the tractor, plough and the work they did but it has been back in the workshop on the solder iron this afternoon.

jambug123 · Post by **jambug123** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:45 pm

Brian,
glad to hear the link arms are working for you, i did some ploughing on friday with my Plowmate and the plough bodie that i got from you, 10 inches wide and 5 inches deep and did a nice tidy job of it to i tried with my dexta and robin plough but the ground was far to wet for it but the plowmate being lighter just floated accross the top with its bolt on tyre tread adaption from 2 old dexta tyres

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My Boss used to use his TS82 behind his MF148 Multi Power and he said it used it with ease i carnt see a dexta having any troubles with one

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Regards
James

John-Paul · Post by **John-Paul** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:29 pm

You folks ploughing already?

Our fields are still under about three feet of snow

Post by **Brian** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:42 pm

But your "snow" ploughing J-P!

John-Paul · Post by **John-Paul** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:32 pm

Brian wrote:But your "snow" ploughing J-P!

Groan! That's terrible!

Pascal · Post by **Pascal** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:03 pm

Hi Brian,

Did you get a chance to take some pictures of Dotty with the plough? Looking forward to them.

Post by **Brian** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:47 pm

These are for Pascal! I went back this afternoon and finished one of the short bits I started the other day.

This is the PM plough with EPIC bodies. Made in the late 1940's/early 1950's at the Ford factory at Leamington Spar. Based on the Sherman plough design and fitted with Ransomes bodies.

It pulls dead straight behind Dotty as can be seen by the check chains, and it does a beautiful job.

Couple of unrelated pictures. I went out to a couple of potato planters the other day. Sorry about the tractors which were the main problem. I don't know what it is about these tractors but they have lots of weird electronic signals floating around that give me lots of trouble. But they still are impressive bits of kit. The planter is bigger than Dotty.

There are times when one of these JCBs would be handy.

Gman · Post by **Gman** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:02 pm

I had to go down the road a few weeks back to where large peach farms are and noticed a tractor parked with junk that I thought had fordson grills. When I looked back saw that the air intake and exhaust was on right side and thought it must be something else and did not turn around to see if possible to buy. I see the pics with this, what years and models were like this and are parts same as my power major?
Thanks
Gerald

Post by **Brian** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:33 pm

Gerald,

No parts are the same as the Power Major, they are much smaller. If its a petrol Dexta it will be pretty rare as only around 4000 were built between 1960 and 1964, and sent world wide.

Even if you did not buy it, I would love to have the numbers of it for the record. If you go to the Wiki you will find I have posted pictures of where they can be found.

Gman · Post by **Gman** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:17 pm

Thanks Brain, this was about 40 miles from me, I'll try and make a trip back down there. Large peach farms are there and this was sitting among a couple of other old tractors and other scrape. I'll let you know.
Gerald

Pascal · Post by **Pascal** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:02 pm

Hi Brian,

Thank you very much for the beautiful pictures! Really great to
see Fordsons at work.

Bensdexta · Post by **Bensdexta** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:19 pm

Brian wrote:

This is the PM plough with EPIC bodies. Made in the late 1940's/early 1950's at the Ford factory at Leamington Spar. Based on the Sherman plough design and fitted with Ransomes bodies.

Hi Brian,
Very tidy ploughing

What are your thoughts on ploughs with a depth wheel compared to those without? I think the Robin comes in both forms?

jambug123 · Post by **jambug123** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:12 pm

Ben,
The robin does come in both forms, The depth wheel was used on tractors without depth/draft control it keeps the plough at a more constant depth regardless of draft and is normally used in position control.

Regards
James

Post by **Brian** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:24 pm

The Robin with depth wheel was for the Allis B so I have been told. Most other small tractors of the time had a method of draft control and did not need it.

The depth wheel on the PM worked well to aid the neat work. It supported the left side of the plough and helped to push the furrows over, keeping the work tight. I set the draft lever so that I still got weight transferance as well.

The pieces I ploughed have wet areas,Nuffy and Henrietta tend to break through and leave deep ruts, Dotty ploughed straight through these areas with only a little slip controlled by the footbrake, she has no dif. lock.

Another area on the same field that I tried to plough was so wet that I nearly got stuck with the plough out of the ground.