There is always something which needs maintenance or repairs on a farm. Often a new machine or project will be made from a need, thought or inspiration. This section covers all those projects – some things are an immediate success although often these things require a little more thought and tweaking.
Since fitting the new copper cylinder head gasket to the Ferguson engine we noticed the tapets on the cylinder head needed to be adjusted. We looked up what the clearance needed to be and got them all set using a set of feeler gauges. The tractor starts easier and runs much smoother now. The tractor […]
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Another Ferguson Te20 has arrived to be added to the collection. This is the one-eyed Cyclops version complete with sidelight marker lights. It needed a cylinder head gasket replaced so it was quickly stripped and rebuilt with a new gasket. As soon as it was put together it started easily.
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I have another project…tidying up a rough Hardi mounted sprayer! It is a 15m 800litre with hydraulic folding booms…it will be good when I’m finished with it…it’s not so good at the minute. I used to own an Allman mounted crop sprayer – it had an 800-litre tank and I’m not sure if it was
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This year we had grown a field of spring oats following potatoes which grew well and were harvested in good conditions. The plan was to mill the oats, use them as animal feed and keep the straw for bedding. The existing meal bin would be replaced with a bigger one which was lying spare at
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In January 2020 we bought a 2WD Fiat tractor to help with soil preparation, sowing, and harvesting of turnips (swedes). This article documents the journey of our first Fiat tractor restoration. We previously used Ferguson TE20’s or MF35x’s owned by Harry’s grandad. We decided if we were buying our own tractor we wanted something that
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