BROKEN LINK ARM ON THE MASSEY 135 TRACTOR

[@ecolenakles]

Top tip Put the ring spanner on the Bolt head & socket & breaker bar on the Nut After a good soak with some squirt

[@kennethhalls8062]

Well richard it's like when you get older things start to break down in my days down the farm we would weld a bar across it and use a big chain to hitch up to you need hollow tube for leaveridge crack on rich you can do it your used to hard work you had a good teacher respect

[@elizabethmaybrown6715]

The joys of the yard scraper, too dry can't scrape up, frozen solid can't scrape, too wet goes everywhere you don't want it😂😂 at least you have a cab on your scraper tractor😳

[@dc9691]

Not criticising, but if you took off the scraper beforehand and gave the 135 a quick wash round the back end, would have made the job a little easier.

[@jackduffy3170]

you just wouldnt understand

[@dc9691]

@@jackduffy3170 I understand perfectly, had to do similar job on same tractor recently. U rather be caked in sh1t, tripping over the implement.

[@jackduffy3170]

@@dc9691 Cool story kid.

[@seanmangan354]

This reminds me of my childhood growing up in a farm in Ireland,only difference was we only had a vice grips to sort out any breakages...

[@ciaranomalley9274]

Vice grips and baler twine !!😃

[@michaeloflynn2051]

And a n empty ration bag for a mat, and every machine made by pierce of wexford. My next phone will be a pierce too.

[@alicegamble6145]

I like how you video real life on the farm. Its not all beautiful sunrises & sunsets thats for sure.

[@miketaylor8777]

Richard we can always rely on you you to be keeping it real. Good to see the good, the bad and the ugly as that is reality.

[@irvenrathburn9421]

Richard good job make due with what you have . A farmer is a jack of all trades. Have a grate rest of your day. A USA FAN

[@cathalduggan2566]

Great job Richard. Vacum tanker on Mc Cormick

[@markwillcox8673]

Nice to meet you earlier

[@charleslynch7274]

Great job Richard hope all is well

[@tobytopp9985]

Having a impact wrench saves a lot of swearing

[@Benzos6149]

You’re not f*kkin wrong, I’ve f*kkin got one, shuts my f*kkin potty mouth right the f*kk up. No, it really f*kkin does. Especially in the cold. Damn that b@st@rd f*kkin cold, gets right up my f*kkin @rse.

[@davidheap5338]

Save yourself a lot of hassle and clean up the broken one in situe and weld the piece back on, quick and easy, because lets face it all the ones your trying to replace it with are all welded up anyway.

[@macfarms]

I think for 50 quid a piece I’d probably just replace the both of them and keep the ones on the tractor for spares. I guess if you had to you could use your 265? On the scraper

[@macfarms]

@@Tanks-In-Space yeah I think it would be hard to justify a new tractor for running a scraper if all that’s wrong with it is a link arm

[@calumanderson5617]

He could always buy a Kubota or a Belarus !!! I'm sure the guy will have a sweet deal. 😁😆👍

[@macfarms]

@@Tanks-In-Space the spares he had were obviously junk too from what I seen

[@macfarms]

@@Tanks-In-Space haha I guess not? Never thought of myself as a big farmer but whatever 🤣

[@macfarms]

@@calumanderson5617 hahaha yep no doubt!

[@roberto33812]

Old tractor sounds healthy keep her going 👍

[@neilwilkinson78]

How about doing a video on washing your tractors and your equipment eg yard scrapper

[@BIGRIG2005.]

Sounds about right for a 135. I snapped a link using a 3pt set of discs with one of those.

[@michaeloflynn2051]

I see that Neil loves a pun or two. Carry on Richard , in West Cork we'd do the same, 'Lord give you strength' and a bitta forebearance too, with all the comments fired ure way.

[@horseo5111]

I’m winter bluesing at the moment it always seems like so much more needs doing but I sbos it’s more because the days are so short

[@landyboy88]

Morning Richard I know how you feel it’s very frustrating when something breaks just before it’s needed. If I had to offer any advice I would invest in a plumbers blow lamp heat it up and apply some oil I s amazing how much the capillary reaction gets seized bolts undone. Great video sir

[@aschris87]

I'd love to see Farmer P and a Funky Farmer calibration doing repairs 🤔

[@seanflynn9771]

Your tick over needs speeding up before it shakes itself to pieces

[@jackduffy3170]

tickover sounds perfect here, i really hope youre not a mechanic lol

[@seanflynn9771]

@@jackduffy3170 you needs to have your ears looked at

[@jackduffy3170]

@@seanflynn9771 Ok child. Back to Farm simulator.

[@alanlanghorn9528]

Needs a was to keep it clean makes life easier

[@tractorsold1]

What do you think is holding that tractor together? Never once washed a tractor.

[@russellbarron6775]

Looked like there wasn't enough penetration on the weld where it broke. The winter blues starts when arthritis gets to throbbing when the temperature drops.

[@russellpetrie119]

good idea with the strawbales saves on tyres and sand bags just to think you have a tractor that appriceates in value as it gets older

[@martinhandley8753]

Yet again Richard another fantastic video mate, always look forward to watching your videos. Keep up the good work. Hope you and family are keeping well and safe. All the best Martin

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@cameronallison6889]

I always like to see how to mend things round the farm

[@antonyfarming]

Great you had a spare I would have taken scraper off out the way anyway good job done 👍👍

[@johncooper398]

Hi funky put new arm on now every thing will come undone ,you know it makes sense .🛠👨‍🔧👍

[@OliverLee390]

Surprised you don't give the tractor a quick swill off with the volume washer! But good video nevertheless, how are you getting on with your lagoon? And the 135 sounds like she might want the idle screw on the pump turned in a little bit as the idle seems to be very low

[@2626stephen]

Nice one Richard bit muck on your old Massy

[@patrickcormack7637]

I had fertiliser spreader once. It had a pen on it same still. It broke well it and it broke

[@MrJezzo101]

I absolutely love that tractor 👍😄

[@cornwall3dprintering382]

Could you take the scraper off

[@jeremymassey5940]

Hello great video,just a little power wash now and again to keep the little tractor looking good,I bet Daniel Massey didn't envisage do much kak on a tractor when he built them

[@thefunkyfarmer]

You got that right!

[@paulmiller8886]

Do you ever buy spare parts at farm sales?

[@reeceduggan6749]

Get the jet wash out on all your machines and keep on top of the cow muck all over them 😂😋

[@alancarroll8087]

Dead right 😂😂

[@MrDbone75]

Good Friday morning to you sir and your family

[@georgeehlers2575]

How ironic had that exact thing happen to me on the weekend and the arms have all been welded up and on Monday it snapped again got a set of new ones to save the agony of doing it all again

[@samodonovan7788]

Class vid funky farmer 😂😂😂

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video Richard , won't the arm of the 265 go on there. Always something breaking. Are you spreading slurry with the mc cormick?

[@michaelclavin]

Great video Richard and is that a slurry tanker I spy on the back of the mcormick

[@Wilco-ho9hq]

You have triggered my OCD, can you please make a video of you washing The tractor LOL

[@jackduffy3170]

You know OCD is a made up term and there is no such condition?

[@tractorman810]

Ron greets, down south Devon big tractor breakers job done , used to be order before 2 pm next day delivery via courier, if they done have a mf135 link arm i would be very surprised

[@andyg2959]

Great vid Richard ! , but making me cringe listening to that tractor idling that low !

[@patrickcormack7637]

One thing you can't weld cast iron. You can get the link arm at a men that scrap burnt our crash damage tractor. I had a man 15 miles from me my father went to him for parts for parts of mf 165

[@stevec9653]

It's not cast iron and both can be welded

[@patrickcormack7637]

They are. I broke one 30 years ago. Could not weld it. A man said it cast iron.

[@stevec9653]

Ball ends might be cast steel but you can stick weld both with the correct rods

[@aaronwilliamson5366]

If you looked after your machinery better the nuts and bolts would unscrew far easier all it takes is washing the tractors down once or twice a year. It doesn’t take long and it will pay of not haveing so much crap built up when you need to do a repair job.

[@s1mon1983]

Very true, cow sh!t soon corrodes things. Doesn't have much respect for machinery

[@macfarms]

Just a scraper tractor they live in shit. You run them into the ground and get another. Just like the muck spreader, not a job for a tractor you actually cared about tbh

[@gerrytighe5716]

135 in good nick is a valuable machine. It's a shame to see it in such condition.

[@tinman8311]

Got no gaffer tape about?

[@richardmottram9838]

Would being easier given power wash down given tractor wash now again

[@kennethhalls8062]

When you go to agri college they should teach you about blacksmithing make easy for farmers nothing like good anvil and burner you can do it it's called improvise great old tractor my favourite is mf 35with out the cab crack on pop master lol

[@pauricflood2183]

Your tick over needs speeding up a low tick over like that can harm the engine by not runing the oil pump fast enough to lubricate the engine it be somthing id be sorting fast

[@sandymcghee3328]

Richard 135 needs a good clean to get all cow shit of along with the rest of the tractors 🚜👍👍👌👌🚜🚜👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

[@Azzyos]

That tractor needs a clean🚜😂

[@Azzyos]

@@hellohello3199 thats true i was only joking

[@paulf2529]

You should never put pipe or other handle extensions on a ratchet as you will damage the teath of the ratchet mechanism. A breaker bar is what you want or a slideing t bar. Stick your pipe on this and there is no ratchet mechanism to wreck.

[@Benzos6149]

That’s actually very true - I wouldn’t use anything but a breaker bar to extend leverage on potentially very cold and seized nuts; something is likely to snap. I’d also swap both arms, it’s like working with aluminium and steel bolts on parts that get hot and cold regularly, I use silver plating, otherwise you can easily cross thread without realising until you’re drilling it back out…. ‘n’ stuff.

[@jackduffy3170]

rubbish

[@enginefool692]

Adam Henson wouldn't do it. He likes lots of money to cross his palm ! PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

[@amandajones3422]

Should have bought two the other will be as worn 🚜👍

[@patrickkelly4070]

it could do with a power hose

[@Arunman-ww1xt]

Use the closed end of spanner

[@andrewpearsall8312]

If things are oiled and greased, they last a bit longer and it’s easier to take apart, lol

[@christopherhinton6456]

time to clean the tractor,

[@buff2497]

A £10 at the local engineers would of welded that back on. Not all welders can farm but all farmers think they can weld😂

[@jackduffy3170]

where are your welding videos?

[@buff2497]

@@jackduffy3170 Giving welding tuition to the surrounding young farmer is more help than posting videos.

[@jackduffy3170]

@@buff2497 where are your welding videos? Dumb child

[@wyndhamhewlett2795]

Hahaha, I love the comment about Henson he wouldn't know a cows head from it's ass! In the real day to day livestock world, easy him bouncing around in front a camera talking the talk letting the staff do the 💩 work, I know exactly how you feel Richard keep up the good work. 👍

[@Q8Bart]

Wash it before repair it ;)

[@iancoupe20v43]

dont be a spanner use a breaker bar not a ratchet

[@eamoncanning3862]

U buy a slurry tanker

[@leandalynch975]

bugger the shitty broken arm hard work , hows yeh back? step up palour she's hard crack that, just you working farm? lovely looking cows best ive seen you tube , my family were lynch's Portstewart Friesian breeders, my dad came to new zealand 1960s. not many walkthroughs here now , would you do a new cowshed?

[@neilmurphy845]

You need to replace the missing check chain

[@neilwilkinson78]

Richard did you pay a arm and a leg for it lol 🤣

[@andligharmoniah7518]

Hello im from sveden

[@jimrobertson9865]

You put that on the wrong way round Richard

[@johndeere1951a]

Mark on your calendar a day set aside to replace both arms with new parts in the future. The other arm and the hardware must be about to fall off also. Better philosophy than " never do today which you'll do later" sorry. Use the 10 % discount to order the 2nd arm.👍🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@Fredtd5]

Impact gun would be good

[@ruairigoat]

The broken check chain is what caused all your bother here. Would it hurt to tidy up a we machine you probably use daily.... a wash and hooking the scraper off would have been a great start for this repair.

[@Sooty]

Interesting vblog. Time to buy some new parts instead of using bodge it & Scarper fixing. Farm p won't answer my question. If he kills a pheasant on his land does he pluck it. And while he is plucking the pheasant does he sing the song 😆 which is printed on his new coffee mug.

[@alexthomas637]

🚜🚜😎👍

[@Benzos6149]

Nooooooooooo! 🙆‍♂️ Edit: Job’s a good’n! Crack on! Well done Richard, 👍😉 Edit: Actually, hold the cracks. Tack and weld - and not freehand! I thought that radius was deliberate! Edit: Note to self: Know when to STFU, nobody’s laughin, ye great walloping nancy.

[@Benzos6149]

I’m just picturing that arm in 50 years, attached to unrecognised bits of steel from the Victorian era, a mystery to science the world over. 😂 Edit: What have you just said?

[@Benzos6149]

Something bout Alzheimer’s? 🤷‍♂️

[@johnmooney3258]

Weld her up Richard,it cheaper.

[@dannybrady4082]

Can we see your son play soccer match

[@koolaskoalas]

10 minute welding job...if you don't know how to weld its not hard to learn ..if you can use a pen to write welding should be easy.find some one to give you a few pointers.I would but I'm a tad too far away.

[@dickbful]

A rough man lol

[@sweed58]

That's not a bad day because you only broke the arm and didn't knock the wall down,plus you need to speed up tick over on engine

[@dannybrady4082]

Can we see you

[@dannybrady4082]

Can we see your son play soccer match

[@crownsmythcars3003]

Clean your tractor, cow poo and piss will rot through tin work

[@greggroome2791]

🇮🇪🇮🇪👍👍👌👌💪💪🙏🙏

[@ianfretwell5655]

wash the bloody thing so you can see what your doing my brother is a farmer and you would think the price of water bwas a fotune