came across this by accident and watched it to the end. thank you.
@greasydot Жыл бұрын
I have spent my whole life on a 1953 fordson major. Still use it today. It's my baby and as long as there's part from England I will keep her going.
@gerdscharlibbe5949 Жыл бұрын
❤❤😂😂
@kenreeve65493 жыл бұрын
What a thoroughly refreshing documentary thank you . no silly camera angles or horribly loud music , First class thank you .
@passtheparcel20243 ай бұрын
Without such innovations, we wouldnt have the high powered an efficient beasts we have today...
@leddielive3 жыл бұрын
I spent many hours in the seat of a Ford son Power Major in the 1970's hoeing sugar beet with my father on the back steering the hoeing implement, we had a Super Major as well and that had a front end loader which we used for muck carting and also loading hay/straw bales, happy memories and a world away from the modern tractors we see today, cheers from the UK.
@jacquelinejanz84663 жыл бұрын
Cheers from the heartland, USA Is that you on the bike? Fun stuff. (Please be safe.)
@traderjack61513 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your stories! Mark. My dad was born 1918 when he was alive he told me his dad purchased a fordson 1920’s he had it a week and drove it back to town and traded for a mcormick Deering the early fordsons would turn over backwards Ford tractors were good!!!
@leddielive3 жыл бұрын
@@jacquelinejanz8466 Yes that's me on my Suzuki GSF1200s Bandit, a beautiful ride with bags of torque.
@leddielive3 жыл бұрын
@@traderjack6151 My stepfather was born 1923 as my natural father died 1973 when I had just turned 6, but that's another story. No safety cabs in those days although we did fit a roll bar to prevent the operator being crushed to death as tipping over was a real issue back on those old machines.
@pseudopetrus3 жыл бұрын
I milked cows as a teenager, I used the farmers Ford tractor, and now as an old man with a hobby farm, I use a 69 Ford 4000!
@amandajones34223 жыл бұрын
Had it on video years ago, thanks for sharing 👍
@geobrower306923 күн бұрын
No mention of the Super Major on tracks, My grandad and uncles had one in his timber business among a whole slew of wheeled Majors and Super Majors, even a Dexter or two. They worked out of Market Deeping (Lincs). I loved driving that crawler! Geoff
@stuartrussell85293 жыл бұрын
Great video, love this stuff!
@jeanmeslier94912 жыл бұрын
Very good. At 15 I left home in Arkansas to find work in Texas. I had never been on a tractor so naturally my first job was driving a tractor. Driving 8n and 9n Fords in the hayfields of East Texas. There is just a feeling you get when you drive onto a field for the first time.
@cecilflakemore85469 ай бұрын
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@Kodakcompactdisc2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating 👍🏻👍🏽👍🏾
@bobpaterson18453 жыл бұрын
Really good video 👍
@thatwazfunaz3 жыл бұрын
very interesting and informative. but if they were making and selling tractors well why did they stop?
@Brian-jf1zx3 жыл бұрын
I assumed that as farmers switched to fewer but larger tractors the volume dropped
@itsriley27473 жыл бұрын
Fiat bought out New holland (At the time was machinary like balers, foragers etc) in the late 80's, and then bout out Ford in the early 90's as the market during that time for tractor selling was Crippled due to ressession in many places leaving the agricutual landscape bleak. Fiat then turned into FiatAgri, FA Was a brownish colour, some new holland tractors to date will come with the colour as a special model. Also in the time FiatAgri Also bought out Case International Harvester (the two brands liquidated prior) And began to form what is knowen today as "CNH. Case-New-Holland", Which obviously sells case and new holland. The blue being New holland was ford. The case being Red for internional Harvester. Real shame ford sold out as one of the farms i work on always bout fords from 1940's up to 1980's when they started to intergrate electronics onto them. If you ever look at early model New hollands, look at the last generation of ford tractors. EXACLY the same. A Ford 8770 is exacly the same as the later famous TM Series New Holland tractors which also came in varients of Blue Or Brown colour paintjob. This series went from 110HP - 190HP, the "TM150" Meaning the TM series with 150hp. Although 150HP+ Range were notorious for failing brakes as the oil would overheat causing brakefade on the wet brake liners.
@KKev Жыл бұрын
I bought a fordson major 1958 model that im putting some mutch needed love to
@gregtaylor83273 жыл бұрын
oil brakes on the Super Major. Dexter was a bit rugged.
@OLD20tractorparts19 күн бұрын
Good to see a familiar face at 32:54 🙂
@julieanddavidmyers66414 ай бұрын
When did the tires change from steel to rubber?
@russellbarron67753 жыл бұрын
Very nice. Loved it.
@ousmanfadera831010 ай бұрын
Hi professor i am currently using Fordson super major tractor. However i am using one but stud on break down due to rear hydraulic lift pump faulty. Where can One get pump.how much?
@chrisrowland37823 жыл бұрын
Were Fordson f tractors not built in cork Ireland form the year 1919??
@johndoe432 жыл бұрын
I have a calender of tractors and it says they were built in Ireland. Here they mention Hercules engines. I hadn't heard that before. I have a 1945 general electric welder with a 4cyl Hercules motor I think hercules became continental used by Massey Ferguson. Among others
@gerardrochford89942 жыл бұрын
1922 started in cork making tractors with shamrock logo
@valqueenofValhalla3 жыл бұрын
Those lanes would be straighter if you used a Willy with a newgren plow and Monroe three point
@pedrostringuetti11292 жыл бұрын
Infelizmente não entendi nada.
@bluemoondiadochi3 жыл бұрын
I'ts very interesting, but a motivation to help solve wider social issues produces iconic machines better than wish for money. Soichiro Honda also had a desire to help people with their struggles - and Honda is the result! Then we have Elon Musk, whose primary motivation is also improvement (and i don't think he is quite done yet). So yea it's a good motivation. far superior to making a buck.
@wanemergency35913 жыл бұрын
Harry Ferguson was no Irish engineer
@paulcallan87143 жыл бұрын
He was from DROMORE IN CO DOWN i think you will find that is in Ireland
@wanemergency35913 жыл бұрын
@@paulcallan8714 no it's in northern Ireland. He was a British engineer.
@wanemergency35913 жыл бұрын
@@paulcallan8714 you would also find I very offended harry Ferguson if he was alive today to see you calling him Irish. Perhaps you should learn your history on the man. Before you start telling people something that is completely wrong
@deweydodo66913 жыл бұрын
My grandpa use to always talk about that worm gear drive noise .
@Jolly56Roger3 жыл бұрын
yes it was phosphor bronze I thing !
@pedrostringuetti11292 жыл бұрын
Infelizmente não entendi nada.
@fazer24742 жыл бұрын
infelizmente o You Tube não faz legendas. Desculpe (esta tradução é via google)
@tommyhatcher33993 жыл бұрын
I always figured Henry Ford was born rich so his company literally popped out of nowhere. I figured you just took ideas that many men were having but to get to the point of mass production you need to sink some serious cash into it initially. I'm happy to be corrected. He was just a farm boy wanting to save farmers backs from breaking. They're like what IBM was to computers and accounting later on.
@jamessmith76912 жыл бұрын
Look up a story about he and Harry Ferguson.
@aaronfarr47539 ай бұрын
Henry Ford was a lot of things, an idiot savant, egomaniacal, anti semite, socialist, and stubborn as a rock. but there’s no denying he put the world on wheels and brought power farming to the smaller farmers.
@magnum82643 жыл бұрын
thanks Henry!
@hesjevoll2 жыл бұрын
they are great tractors i love my major from 57
@DanaKotze3 жыл бұрын
Very nice video
@schrierplanthire4 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
@wingnutjack94632 жыл бұрын
i got a 1958 fordson dexta, perkins diesel
@prime5533 жыл бұрын
Biggest fail of the Dextas was them sticking in gear...
@Brian-jf1zx3 жыл бұрын
ha ha. yes been there. Fixable by building up the side of the stick with weld to limit its travel
@prime5533 жыл бұрын
@@Brian-jf1zx correct, a very fast tractor also
@blackhat1652 Жыл бұрын
That's why you keep a 1/2" spanner in the toolbox. 3rd gear is most common, you learn to move the stick more directly, and it helps to build up the tip of the shifter with some bronze.
@abeonthehill1662 жыл бұрын
But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe
@aaronfarr47539 ай бұрын
As an American I must say the Brit’s have such a wonderful way of describing an experience. A lovely sensation indeed. The big thing they always miss completely or intentionally pass over in videos like this, is all it’s drawbacks and failures and how deadly dangerous the Fordson tractor was to operators.
@stevetorres762 жыл бұрын
Too bad the Fordson was so dangerous when it first came out.. lots of men died from them flipping over.
@derekstocker66613 жыл бұрын
Lovely "olde worlde" programme and very well explained development of a fabulous tractor family. What has always puzzled me, a tractor is meant to tow, why does it appear (to me) that the rear tyres on a tractor are the wrong way around. Surely, the grip would be better with the two tread pattern being in a "grabbing" form rather than sharp edge first, just a thought....
@fazer24743 жыл бұрын
I think (but don't quote me) it doesn't cause damage to the field and crops it driving through.
@derekstocker66613 жыл бұрын
@@fazer2474 Thanks for that, makes sense, it's just that a shape that grabs seems better than one that is like a boat prow shape, especially when pulling a load. But I can see what you mean.
@leddielive3 жыл бұрын
... also the tyre is being squeezed together rather than pulled apart which would eventually split the rubber tyre down the middle, I hope you don't mind me adding my bit as I really enjoyed this video too.
@derekstocker66613 жыл бұрын
@@leddielive Interesting thought that, could be something there, thank you..
@steamshoveler50553 жыл бұрын
they are mounted this way so the are self cleaning , try backing up in the mud and you fill the them with mud