never seen a fordson major vintage tractor used for this !!... Perkins p6 engine

[@astonmcleod5344]

On the family farm in Devon we had a 1956 fordson major in use until we sold in 2000. We used the belt drive for a circular saw bench and centrifugal crop dryer. I remember we had an aerosol spray on the belt to make it grip the pulley wheel. How we kept our limbs is a wonder.

[@lovejcdc]

That was pretty cool to see, I especially enjoyed it as my uncle still has 6 Fordson major tractors and every one of them still run like new. He has a ranch in Montana USA and they have been in use since they were new. His father had them shipped in back in 48 except for 2 which were bought a few years later. I still say they are the best built tractor ever made.

[@allistairc123]

Unreal! I bet they live in a nice dry climate too , we suffer a lot with rust here

[@lovejcdc]

@@allistairc123 yeah it's definitely not the wet type environment of Ireland. But they don't have any kind of shelter or anything. They are in the elements 24/7. But he is very OCD about maintaining them and never abuses them. But they are used for putting up hay crops in the summer and then feeding the livestock in the extreme weather all winter. I can say personally it gets down to-45 below zero Fahrenheit and even worse than that occasionally. So it's a great testament to how well made the Fordson tractor is. Not to mention the sheer amount of low end torque and just toughness for a 45hp tractor. It would blow your mind some of the things that we have done with them.

[@JonDingle]

Great to see an old tractor living upto and beyond it's expectations!

[@rickscott1162]

Ah yes,I remember lining up for the belt! Was doing it at 12 w/ Dads help!

[@Nigelk388]

That’s a fine unit of a tractor engine sounds great you can tell it was built in simpler times and will last forever

[@AlexLindley-u5f]

Great to see an E27N 4 wheel Drive in its working clothes with front weights - still a Serious piece o kit !!

[@Tshade67]

I couldn't think of a better use of an amazing tractor. 😆 Thanks for sharing!

[@Sircraig7963]

G'day Allistair ,, Another classic, ,& good ol dad gets to blow about how his Fordson can still cut it in todays workplace .. Keep them comming .... Much Respect from Down Under

[@mrwolf9335]

The old Perkins didn’t mind that one bit probably done it some good running under a proper load 👌

[@johndowe7003]

Yup them diesels suffer from idling around and not getting up to temp . They gotta be ran hot (not overheated) so the piston rings won't stick

[@frontagulus]

Very nice. My uncle used to have a matched pair of E27N-P6s - one was a wheel tractor and the other was a crawler. Both had belt pulleys if I recall correctly.

[@oakdeneforestry1965]

Brilliant tractors great vid fella thanks for posting

[@donaljoyce4761]

We had fordson major tractors like those back in the 50s and a belt on it from the side PTO driving crushers and granulars crushing Connemara Marble in Recess Connemara Galway Ireland 🇨🇮

[@martyn450f3]

Great video. Nice to see old tractors having a run up. 👍

[@mogwaifan7094]

Was watching your vids for a while. Then came across this. That major is a lovely old girl. I, m a Ford owner meself. Liked and subscribed. Greetings from kilkenny, Ireland

[@chasthechippie4662]

Cant beat a Major in its working clothes.... especially that rare rascal!!!

[@peterlawrie7636]

Use to drive an 8g hammermill and blower with old p6 major. The hammermill require a high speed for the blower to blow into silo's. Couldn't acheive that with standard pully so made one up about 50% bigger. That done the jobbut the old major would bounce around so we dig a few holes for the wheels. Got to love the old P6.

[@chisdalton9652]

Bloody brilliant! As a former Jeffery diamond employee I've machines quite a few parts for crushed similar to the one your running

[@onsomebits7486]

Legendary use of fine historic gear!

[@brianwilliams8361]

To the man kicking the belt over the pulley, as a child many years ago I saw my father do the same then watched him screaming on the farmyard after the belt and threshing machine pulley had thrown him way up in the air to land with a smashed leg

[@slimshady6718]

Difference is this wasn’t spinning

[@johndowe7003]

I bet you he never tried that again 😂

[@grahamparkhill8412]

Brilliant love to see something out of the ordinary exactly like this.

[@allistairc123]

I know the name!

[@michaelcarnegie4051]

Great stuff allastair keep them coming.

[@phlodel]

Kind of a neat trick getting everything lined up and the belt tracking.

[@garygag739]

The engine in the tractor is a big old lump she run lovely. I wonder how many of today's tractors will be still running when they reach the same age as the fordson. Not many would be my guess. Thanks for another great interesting video. 👍👍👍

[@peteacher52]

Who would have thought it?! That's one stout old tractor; no real surprise though as I drive a 1950 Jowett as a hobby car! For an innovative use of a Perkins diesel in a wild-looking but perfectly efficient set-up, look at Steve Cross sawmill of Sth Georgia.

[@grahamprice3230]

Roadless and Countyworked with Ford and Fordson for many yrs.Doe triple D was developed for DDN majors and Super Mayors As 2tractors joined in tandem and using 4large driving wheels and the front axle “hanging loose “with 4wheel drive steering.Happy memories.

[@scruffyHerrbert]

lovely old tractor, nice crusher (having broken up a good 40-50 tons of rubble by hand with heavy hammer for a workshop sub-base, have a special appreciation for such things)

[@carlzwanzig5372]

Belt alignment is always a bugger with those things, try aligning a traction engine with the thresher or sawmill, that'll get you going :). (BTW, if the PTO runs both directions, you can cross the belt and get better wrap on the pulleys.)

[@JimNichols]

I ran a sawmill with flat belting and found, after an old as dirt gentleman told me, that crossing the belt and belt length where there is a considerable swag in the belts make the belts wrap and grip the pullies better. Spot on advice Carl!

[@raypitts4880]

with the crusher dosnt matter which way it turns cross belt pully same way crusher wont mind also crown the pulleys so it centers belt easier to line up and run so easy been there done that in 1960 so there we used a oliver 90 turn anything thing drum and baler 52 inch saw .

[@robwilde855]

The tractor pulleys are crowned. You only need one of the two pulleys to be crowned, unless you're REALLY poor at lining them up.

[@carlzwanzig5372]

@@robwilde855 Even with crowned pulleys, you still have to be close- a few degrees off is one thing, 15 is another.

[@robwilde855]

@@carlzwanzig5372 Yes, you're right, of course. I put it rather badly. I was just remembering doing it on farms when I was a teenager, connecting a Major to shafting that operated a couple of small grain mills, and I couldn't remember much difficulty, or a belt ever coming off. But, I had a very good teacher in my uncle; also, that was a long time ago, and my memory wouldn't win any prizes these days...!

[@lauriepearce8266]

I think the limiting factor would have been how much torque the belt could transmit not the torque of the engine . If the direction of rotation was not critical crossing the belt would have increased the grip of the belt on the small tractor pulley. I used to be quite good at lining up my dad's E1a Major to both the corn mill and the saw bench. But the ended over 50 years ago. It was not unknown for this technique to be used to start tractors with worn engines. Why not tow start you might ask. When the tractor is stuck in a boggy bit of ploughed field this was about the only way.

[@hsagri69]

Well thats something I wasn't expecting to watch today. Shes one sweat sounding girl. Great idea for testing the crusher

[@allistairc123]

Yes mate, something a bit different! Makes good viewing!

[@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759]

These are real horse powers with a lot of torque! Next step to test is 1-cylinder steam tractor with centrifugal regulator. :D.

[@bluegtturbo]

Great tractor. All majors should have been built with perkins p6. Back in the 50s nothing else could beat a p6 major

[@nicostenfors5690]

Beautiful unrestored 4x4 Fordson!

[@Imholze]

After 60 seconds I already smashed the like and thumbs up button 👍🏻

[@supertramp6011]

That’s a Bonny old Major there,great patina too!

[@dantheman7370]

That’s a beauty of a tractor

[@garyjones7944]

Good excuse to get the old major out to show what she can do👍👍

[@Dextamartijn]

Awesome job on the video really enjoyed it new subscriber. Look forward to more

[@gethinjones1348]

Great video lads 👌, love the Fordson Perkins! 👍

[@jankotze1959]

Brilliant, love that Fordson E27N

[@brianshields7137]

When I was a kid we ran a bush sawmill with a fordson p6 driving a 5ft blade through hardwood

[@bevspecht5221]

My Dad had one here Ontario Canada it ran our sawmill and springtime it was out working in fields and thrashing machine in the fall

[@iansmartel5473]

Bit of water on the belt helps shrink it. Both drums need to be totally in line otherwise they slip off. Lengthen the belt then cross it figure of 8.

[@rupert5390]

That’s a hardass old bastard of a machine - the tractor looks tough as well

[@joachimsingh2929]

The biggest question is: will it blend?

[@WayneRigley]

Awesome video Jim !!!

[@makingithappen5178]

I remember from the past that the most difficult thing was to line up the flat strap.

[@liamkelly1724]

What an interesting video 📹 we'll done, love the old e27 n, if Frank Perkins was a alive im sure he would be delighted. Have 2majors myself. Muchas gracias liam kelly kilkee clare ireland. 🚙 🚜🚜📹Hasta luego.

[@quinn860]

Tractor loved that, them old engines are the best no dpf adblue catalytic converters or any sensors or any of that shite, i love it

[@tonycurtiss1081]

Thanks again for the great content!!!

[@derekcomer4858]

Fantastic, these older tractors will perform amazing feats if you treat them gently 😌

[@chascarpenter5006]

Thank you, really enjoyed the video, you cant beat the old tractors.

[@jameslindley924]

Way to Go !!! Looks FANTASTIC Does that sit n beg 4x4 Major- i want one !! or 2 lol

[@olinqua1]

Love this, where did you get the pulley belt, I need a replacement ?

[@bonniedobkin6948]

Great Restoration VIDJA’ !❤️🏴‍☠️🎥👍🏻

[@olinqua1]

Loooooove that Roadless Version 👌🏽👌🏽

[@tractorrestorations6055]

I've watched many of your videos im hooked on the heavy fabrication ones I find the size of your equipment amazing But this video got me to hit subscribe Keep up the varied content and I look forward to searching through your other videos

[@jix177]

Great looking Fordson.

[@hiscifi2986]

Wish I had one of those...! Was it running the correct direction, I thought the moving jaw was supposed to lift, not push down. . . It would have been nice to see a couple of bricks chucked in.. . . . We had the crusher that had just crushed Canning Docks in Liverpool, demolish a local farm building. . . . A very useful piece of kit if you can find a trailer big enough to move it from site to site. . . . .

[@allistairc123]

Good observation! You are right but for the purpose of running unloaded the direction doesn't matter

[@jasonbuck489]

Wouldn't putting a twist in the belt help keep it from running off the pulley and flywheel?...

[@wobblywill1340]

Back in the 1950s the quarry on our farm had a paraffin Fordson driving the crusher and screener.

[@Mackeson3]

I've never seen a P6 with a rotary injection pump before. Maybe a later modification?

[@BigElCat]

Is that a 4 wheel drive conversion on the E27N ? First I've seen like that .

[@JuhaErkkila]

On our crusher assembly we use just 2 pieces of v belts and drive it from the plane flywheel(the one with out the grooves for v belts). Faster To do it like that because No need for belt alignment... Empty crusher doesnt need the power so 2 belts is just enough 😉

[@davidmunro1469]

I have driven a Fordson in Canada. 😊

[@markleigh3]

The title is right I haven't seen anything like that before erm daft question would it crush stone then. Like most people probably I have only seen tractors running the threshing machines off the pulley and belts at country fairs etc

[@allistairc123]

Probably a sprinkle of small stuff lol

[@bobpaterson1845]

60hp but some amount o torque get that crusher runnin 💪💪

[@frankdeegan8974]

Once it gets going not much power is needed to spin the crusher, the engine was just loving it. Put that old tractor on a machine where it has to work hard after dark you will see fire on top the exhaust no problem

[@johnbarham7718]

Does it matter which way the crusher runs? if not I would have crossed the belt, it would not have to be so tight.

[@basiltaylor8910]

Not bad for a half century old six pot 'Polly Perkins' seventy 'Polly " Ponies driving that monster stone crusher weighing the same as a small executive jet. Did you not know your Tractor is a'Roadless' E27N 4X4 Hi-Major with 'P6 Polly Perkins' , the ancestor of the 'Roadless 4x4 Ploughmaster Six' Based on a Fordson Super Major powered by a Six Cylinder Ford 590E Diesel designed by their leading agricultural engineer Laurie Martland. Popular with East Anglian Farmers with vast acreages of arable land to cultivate using Fowler and Caterpillar Crawler Tractors. Roadless,s Ploughmaster Six was the ideal replacement for the Fowler VF, and more versatile around the farm estate. as E27N,s especially those with the 'Model N,s old 'Hercules' designed four cylinder petrol parrafin engine were cheap to buy. Seeing a gap in the market for a powerful 4x4 Tractor to replace crawlers used by East Anglian Farmers .Roadless Engineering of Hounslow Middlessex bought a number of E27N Petrol TVO Tractors, converting them to Four Wheel Drive using an Italian Manuel Selene conversion kit,swapping the 'Hercules' Petrol engine for the P6 Diesel.

[@dennisderby8705]

I would love to have that tractor here in Michigan. And the crusher also

[@modelfarmer6710]

Just incredible

[@garytompkins3761]

Was that your dad on the tractor? Please tell us about your shop and the business. I did a lower end on a Fordson like that , was on a farm in Connecticut running a sawmill off that pulley. Great video.

[@mattsfirewoodvideos738]

That is impressive in itself

[@johnryan8533]

A rig like this was used to operate a rope tow at a small ski area.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Howsat front axle getting drive? If I were a gambling man I'd say that machines had a bit of tinker and fettle over the years. Nice vid, beautiful brute of a tractor. Perkins ftw.

[@allistairc123]

The Roadless kit includes a transfer box section

[@billmorris2613]

Well it turned the crusher, but did it crush anything?

[@scowell]

Love it... can it do a burnout? Would have loved to seen a brick tossed in. Grand-dad used to run a table saw with the back wheel of a Model T I'm told.

[@raypitts4880]

yes they did that saves buying a tractor days gone by.

[@jwoodyr1]

That was cool. Thanks for sharing!! Was that hard on the tractor PTO bearings?

[@andrewwilson6085]

Is it a Roadless Traction E27n ?

[@michaelking4161]

Where did you get the flat belt i could do with similiar

[@izalman]

Keep on rocking - in many ways....

[@mckruger5623]

Nise job. Woeld love to se more videos like this. Maby it shoeld try and run a cone crusher

[@SADWEELS]

im just jealous e27n p6 roadless is A DREAM tractor for me

[@waller90]

Is the old girl 4wd? That engine sounds smoother than the one in my Fourtrak!

[@izalman]

Yes, a County 4WD conversion.

[@raypitts4880]

wow i was wondering evan more amazing than it looks monster on 4 wheels

[@jackk7030]

Good job 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Turbocharge1000]

that was about 1480rpm on that tractor?...try 1600-1650 rpm and then see if the Fordson can hold it with droppin a fat stone in

[@allistairc123]

lol I'd love to!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

I really enjoyed your narration, I’m guessing you are Irish?

[@samos_sainz]

Finally, new workshop video! Not bad as an aperitif... but my appetite has been whetted! Are we gonna see some welding repair? I look both "big blue" rock crushers, and I swear something is broken! Just remember the previous rock crusher repair project, put it in comparison... and now we have double project, and twice bigger! Yeah, definitely hope something is badly broken!

[@allistairc123]

I just might be working on something! 😉

[@nrs91]

interesting you blocked up the belt side front wheel, normally see folk blocking the opposite side so they get more belt to axle clearance

[@allistairc123]

Belt was rubbing bottom of air filter housing

[@USMC1984]

Necessity... Is the Mother of invention!!!

[@raymondrobertson3869]

That old lady would have loved the load on her. She will run like a sweetie for a good few years yet. Great video as usual 👍. Stay safe. Regards Raymond

[@allistairc123]

She was on it 8 hours today never skipped a beat!

[@raymondrobertson3869]

And not an electronic gizmo in sight. The old ones are the best. 👍

[@francoisp351]

Great demonstration Typically it’s better to run this type of setup with the belt “crossed”, in a 8 shape. It reduces slippage and increases stability because the surface of contact between the belt and the pulley is bigger. Of course it’s reverts the rotation direction so you have to adjust if it matters Have fun!

[@raypitts4880]

on a crusher turn either way if you dont have reverse pully

[@ford3cx]

Great video 👍👍

[@Mudsuitable]

That's impressive.

[@boywonder768]

I’m sure people used to twist the drive belt to keep it running true, am I wrong?

[@rushd45]

Right - a twisted belt tends to keep itself on the wheels...

[@frankbeaudette3481]

A twisted belt will make the machine run backwards

[@rushd45]

@@frankbeaudette3481 Well then put the PTO in reverse...

[@marioperrota]

Certa vez, estávamos construindo um galpão para montar uma pequena olaria, que serviria para usarmos os tijolos, primeiramente para servir à própria propriedade... e decidimos ligar uma mesa com serra-circular à polia de um trator BMC Nufield, para facilitar nosso trabalho. Tudo ia bem, até que a certa hora, por ser o chão de areia e a mesa não muito pesada, a correia puxou a mesa e a correia enrolou na polia da mesa jogando-a para alto e, dando umas pancadas, trouxe um caibro do telhado junto com algumas telhas, enquanto corríamos para fora apavorados! Ninguém se machucou, o prejuízo foi pequeno, o pânico é que foi grande, o que nos proporcionou muito boas risadas com o ocorrido!

[@astonmcleod5344]

We had the saw bench on the fordson, I remember father made a scaffold support between the tractor and saw bench to keep it all in place.

[@astonmcleod5344]

Tínhamos a bancada da serra no fordson, lembro que o pai fez um andaime de suporte entre o trator e a bancada da serra para manter tudo no lugar.

[@rude252]

What kind of machine do you usually use to test run them?

[@allistairc123]

A massive 120t horizontal milling machine with a rubber wheel on the spindle

[@bohhica1]

I have about 100 pounds of pecans that thing could crush in one throw, good video and job and tell Junior to pull up his pants, too much but crack!😀👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@gkvfr24]

Awesome video again Alister. Butt crack shot could have been left out of it though. Lol.

[@allistairc123]

🤣

[@ryanozbun8933]

Those Kleemans are big girls

[@keithhill9138]

Your supposed to turn the belt into a figure eight design so it won’t jump of the pulley!