FORDSON POWER MAJOR AND IH FINGERBAR MOWER

OLD TRACTORS 11: Fordson Power Major cutting field side verges with an IH mower in Lincolnshire in 2020.
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[@user-es6jt6eb7t]

Still Working 70 years later !! What a Hell of an Investment

[@dantheman7370]

Great use of zinc ridge

[@glennlingard7851]

International reaper, my job as a boy on the very same setup, North Kelsey Carrs near the river ancholme, once my dad bought a Fahr mower, that reaper spent the rest of its life with nettles, never looked back lol.

[@jameslindley924]

Never has So Much been Owed to any Tractor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jimbothedemocraticredneck555]

👍

[@davidlyons8405]

Proper tractor I've got a 63 super done 600 miles on it this summer 👍

[@chrisharis6284]

Tidy major 😊. Sounds perfect 😊

[@kelvingravel8699]

That old major sounds awesome, great video again love the blade guard.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Cheers

[@user-es6jt6eb7t]

Rain Cap is a Great touch

[@jorjepereira321]

que bueno como me encanta esa vida laburar en la chacara en el fordson no anduve mucho pero anduve en el ford 4000 y 5000 y por ultimo en el 6600 acá en Uruguay andan mucho los forson major son muy requerido lo quieren mucho

[@donplautz9788]

Great video 🚜 thanks for sharing,

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Cheers

[@liamkelly4307]

Enjoyed the video ,love the sound of the power major great tractor and also the finger bar mower. Have a power major myself and six cylinder super Mjr. Also an fr finger bar mower. I cut a length of angle the length of the finger bar, it fits nicely over the finger guards and looks good and protective. Liam Kelly kilkee Clare Ireland.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Glad you enjoyed it, and glad you enjoy your own tractor and mower

[@Jrpascuald]

It's good tractor.

[@videoman5464]

I used one of these mowers, incidentally it is an International B23 mower, as a contractor over 50 years ago. I have some comments which you may or may not appreciate. Firstly, you do not have a swath board and stick on the end of the cutterbar. You would never mow grass without those things. Secondly, you have a Power Major which does not have draft or position control so you need to have some depth chains from your top link position down to your mower and they need to be set so that when you lower your mower down to the ground the heel is running along the ground. In your video the heel is up off the ground and even if the toe is running along the ground you are putting a tremendous strain on the cutter bar and in any case you are not cutting the grass low enough at that end of the cutter bar. But that is always going to happen if you don't bother to unlock the cutter bar which is clear to see at 4.26. And please please put some guards on that mower, especially a P.T.O guard but there should be one on the large pulley as well.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Very good advice there, although in this case all it does is the occasional cutting beside the ditch, its part of a collection rather then ever used properly - still valid points though

[@videoman5464]

@@tractorbarnproductions2009 Thank you, I was only trying to be constructive. But if nothing else, please get some guards on that mower. I'm obviously not sure if he is connected with you but when I saw that young lad on the bike cycling behind you and then the unguarded mower I put 2 and 2 together and made 22. That advice comes with a certain experience. Take care.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

@@videoman5464 yes we realise that, and quite right too!

[@philleggitt3005]

How about a ROPs bar, H/S never excluded anything that left the yard...

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Isn't easier to just learn how to drive a tractor?

[@austral7634]

Whilst appreciating the video and certain comments, I find it difficult to come to terms with the tall and skinny wheel equipment supplied for the UK and Europe. In Australia, our wheel equipment for the Majors was 750 x 16 fronts on a cast wheel and usually, 15 x 28's with the steel rim mounted on a heavy cast centre. 15 x 30's were an optional size and there was provision for the specials used in other applications.

[@dellhell8842]

Majors in the UK and Ireland were originally supplied with 11 x 36 rear and 6.00 x 19 on cast front wheels. Last of the Supermajors had 6.00 x 16 tyres on steel front wheels.

[@christopherhampson265]

To get to the Pub quicker after work !!!😁👍👍👍

[@colinmayes9446]

There is just something nice about old tractors, and farm machinery, no offence to the driver but he looks as though he may have grown up with that tractor, best wishes to them all.

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Quite agree! Robbie would probably agree with you too!!

[@sammaddever4262]

Fantastic videos!! Will there be anymore mad about vintage tractors/ implements dvds? The previous 2 starring Robbie thorpe and friends were fantastic and by the looks of things there's plenty more to see!

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Yes, well at least something very similar. The first one should be out next year or if not 2022. Thank you

[@keithreedman7072]

Is this taken down St Johns please?

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Holbeach

[@lasseb.6139]

could you send me a picture of the Fordson key I have a Fordson myself but without a key

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

Sadly we don't have one oursleves

[@smid2550]

Finger bar mower?? That's a pitman type sickle mower -

[@tractorbarnproductions2009]

It is indeed, but generically known as a finger bar mower type as opposed to the later disc or drum mowers

[@alexanderheath6662]

Yes it's a finger bar mower!

[@videoman5464]

We called them a cutter-bar mowers back in the day.

[@user-yo6bx2gn7d]

I don't mean to smart major tractors are a heap of shite