What do you use a Fergie spanner for?

[@munckintattoolover24]

Got to admit I'm quite impressed about cranking the PTO shaft to lift the hydraulic arms, never knew you could do that!

[@7071SydcHome]

Its a Ferguson thing! The PTO and Hyd pump are on the one drive. And if my sources are correct, the pump is a 4? cylinder piston pump.

[@davidmartin1015]

G’day from Oz, when I was a lot younger I worked with a couple of young Pommey blokes ; they called that spanner “Heavy Harry”. We call those discs on the plough coulter discs and they run in front of the shears to open up the furrow. Those tractors revolutionised farming in this and many other countries ; we literally went from horses to tractors with them in one step. Cheers.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Thank you for your comment.

[@ThePhilBilly]

Watching your videos makes me really miss my old grey Fergies I had a diesel and a PP too restored the PP one when I was about 10 in the summer holidays. Might have to get another one day.

[@chrisnewton2128]

While lifting the 3pl with the spanner- no need to take the spanner off the pto shaft , just slip the spanner on the shaft and work it back an forward, it still looks lifts! Enjoyed the video

[@johnsweeney1712]

Great video, as was said in a few other comments rocking the pto shaft back & forth using the spanner between the check chains has the same effect… raises the lift. It can also be used to rotate the plough cross-shaft to adjust the front furrow width if there’s no front furrow width adjustment handle fitted… Enjoy you videos and admire your tractors & shed… very tidy. Keep up the good work.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Thank you.

[@chrislee2221]

Learnt something new, cranking the T20 pto to raise the linkage with a fergy spanner.

[@andrewturner8755]

Never knew you could wind the PTO with the Fergie spanner to lift the link arms Richard, love the taco meter running off the dynamo, another great video .

[@philparker1666]

Thanks so much picked up both of those spanners this year, just because they were interesting, that you so much my friend. 👍👍👍✌️

[@multipower617]

A genius indeed By the way I like how you done the nuts for the steering joints

[@Gillmeister2465]

Brilliant video Mr B. I'm sure Harry Ferguson would be proud of what you have done, you've got a brilliant set up there pal, my family our farmers, I'm not I went in the forces, but I still go up and get stuck in with them when we're bailing, 😊

[@Theforestbandit]

Super Video Mr B. I love your old tractors.

[@jonathans1955]

When I was a kid ,bout 60yrs ago, we had a Standard Vanguard car, and my dad said it was the same engine as a Massey Ferguson tractor. It did start well....😂

[@claas6504]

I remember when my dad sold claas combines he had a little spanner which fit all the side panels he went to.

[@krisshutler]

What a great educational video Mr B. Haven't seen you for a while at Joe Seels yard

[@TheGrimReaper1]

Just came across your channel, you have some nice things. What did I use a Ferguson spanner for you ask? Well my dad had a TEA 20 and when I finally reached the age thirteen (well nearly, ha) I was sent to turn or row up a field of hay with a Blanch Lely six wheel rake. I came across a myxomatosis rabbit that was on its last legs. Not wishing to run it over with the rake I dispatched it with the only thing I had at hand, the fergy spanner, a quick bash across the back its neck and it was out of it, gone to the happy hunting ground to join its mates. Sorry but I had no other option, I had to put it out of its misery. It’s funny the things you can still recall like it was yesterday, getting on for sixty five years later. Incidently, I still have a blue/silver lapel badge with the Ferguson System tractor that one of my brothers brought back for me from the Yorkshire Show in the late fifties sometime, they were giving them away to anyone who showed an interest in the stuff they had at the stand apparently.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Lovely story and memories thanks for sharing.

[@snappychappy]

What a fabulously simple idea.

[@LeonardBeckett-e1g]

Fantastic video. Very interesting at the end

[@danielread7642]

I realky like the vedio , im going to have to find a spanner now . Harry Ferguson was well ahead of his time with the Tea 20 and 25 and the ferguson system proff of the reliability they sre still going today .

[@i.lynott9919]

A pleasant watch.

[@gwlane5509]

WOW....What a beauty! Hello from USA. What is your painting process please? It looks wonderful for those Fergies! Really loved the old family photos also of the old 35 you restored to glory! Top notch work there!!

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

@@gwlane5509 I tend to sand blast first. Then on with a primer undercoat then top coat. The paints are not as good as they once were.

[@trevormccullough312]

Learned a few things tonight. Ferguson Homestead isn’t far from me.

[@CbSd994]

I used ours to bang on the carburetor when the float stuck. Other than that it stayed in the toolbox under the hood.

[@jimmyjohansson8477]

Nice, and all the best from Sweden.

[@PaulJohnson257]

Cheers Mr B brilliant

[@richardleigh1762]

We used the Ferguson spanner to take the gear lever off when it stuck in gear and you had to slide the selectors back and to to find neutral .

[@mikestewart2409]

Rock the spanner too and fro you don’t need to turn it all the way round 👍

[@adrian_dickinson]

great vid. I never new there was a diesel spanner.

[@hornetboy3694]

Awesome video, thank you

[@brianmarshall1637]

I used to have the petrol only one,always regret selling it when we went on diesels,they were the spitfires of agriculture.

[@masseymadgalway4613]

Excellent video, very informative. Keep them coming. 👍👍

[@richardbaker22]

Great video mr B

[@b_mb4948]

Question: Around 04:28 I notice you have what looks to be a NOS / 1960's period looking CAV 296 type filter. Very smart indeed. I would be interested to know (if possible) where you were able to source it from? I have been looking for reference images online for that particular style but have only been able to find photos of the later filters with a black and blue stripe. I ask because I would like to design a vinyl that I can have printed to cover a modern equivalent filter I bought for a 1965 Southern Cross EFE which I am in the process of cleaning up. Many thanks.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Yes. They are like a vinyl sticker on top of a normal filter. I have just been onto eBay to try and find you a link and they look to have gone? So I am not sure why. Perhaps keep looking on there to see if the come back on.

[@DJC995]

Nice One I learned something Thanks again

[@brendanwhite9799]

I recommend you to another person that is doing up a little ferguson to day keep up the good work

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Cheers

[@Dave.defender]

Only you could make a video about a spanner interesting. Iam a Ford man but my favourite program as a child was about grey fergy and 3 point linkage. Iam sure it was narrated by John peel

[@richardmatthews3304]

I think there was a four part series on bbc2 narrated by John peel, sure one was about classic combines

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Thank you. There was a process call perpetual motion that covered the grey fergi. That was interesting.

[@phillipcleaver7063]

Hello mate , interesting video , after reading the books I have about Harry Ferguson , Sir David brown , Henry Ford etc , never before have I seen one mention of The Freeman Sanders Engine Company , have you got any more info on these , be great to see it on here please , did they get absorbed into another company , like Perkins or leyland , it would be interesting to know , best regards .

[@paulthompson8467]

Good video 👍

[@Dafr-c18]

Evening Mr B brilliant the video as usual👍🏼 trying to find the diesel cranked shaft Ferguson spanner is like trying to find hens teeth, I believe you don’t have to do a full rotation on the pto in order to raise the link arms I’m sure you can just rock in forth and back, not sure if you knew this if not might be worth a try faster than doing full rotations Thanks

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

I will give it a go

[@richardmatthews3304]

Good one mr b, i guess the thing we forget is there would have been shortages of steel and raw materials after the war so making common size nuts and bolts and one spanner fits all enabeld mr ferguson build and sell an affordable tractor to a large market, did you get a box of taties to come home with😊

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Very true. My grandfather struggled for supply’s after the war. And haha no not that time.

[@brianogrady7900]

Your the tractor man Dude😊

[@davycrawford1795]

Love ur video

[@davidcorlett3266]

They say you learn something new everyday just asked my Dad and he did not know 👍 🇮🇲

[@hornetboy3694]

Hi .I have the same spanner but it doesn’t have the EN 18 on it

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Great video. I noticed that the bolts and nuts were a common size on my TEA20 Ferguson tractor and the plough I have with it. Very smart thinking. What does the A stand for in the TEA 20. I know the what the TE and TO stands for. And I use to know what the A stands for, but I’ve forgotten. I live in PEI, Canada. Have a great day.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

The A is for petrol. Ted is petrol paraffin.

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

@@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer ahh. Thanks.

[@zachaiken5413]

The way the arms lifted on the back when u turned the pto would it be the same on a ferguson 35 golbelly

[@7071SydcHome]

I'm not sure. The grey Fergies didn't have independant PTO or hydraulics..think the red 35's may have gone to the 2 stage clutch by that time.

[@kenreeve6549]

Spot on mi old

[@juliandone15]

I used to have four little grey Fergies..... but I let them go as I had nowhere to keep them. And now I have a smallholding and no Fergy 😢..... although I do now have a Solis 26

[@mikesmith480]

Ar well never mind 😢

[@truethought369]

Did you know that the T20, TVO, engine was taken from the, Standard Vanguard car originally?

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Yes I did. But there are many people that read the comments and now they will also no reading your comment. Cheers. 👌.

[@corrigansrestorationvideos9403]

I have an early spanner and greace gun

[@joshuasamms685]

Hi mate I’m trying to make enough money to buy a mf 65 I looking at one for 4750 have you got any suggestions to make a bit of cash at 12 years old

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Sounds quite and expensive tractor. I went around cutting peoples grass when I was a lad.

[@joshuasamms685]

@@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer thanks for the advice

[@m0ogy]

Great video Mate, you don't have a spare one to sell do you?.....I need one for my 1958 35 Dave North Lincs

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

I possibly do yes. I will ask dad.

[@m0ogy]

@@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer Thanks, I have a show tractor and want a nice correct one for a 1958 Massey Ferguson 35 petrol, what would the markings be?

[@hisheighnessthesupremebeing]

Is this unique to the 20 or does the spanner work on the 30 and 35?

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

No the same can be used on the 35. If you watch my video on the wood saw you will see me lifting the saw by the same method

[@bonielsen4512]

God video her ved os er der 4 fe/mf 35 og en mf702 mvh fra danmark.😊

[@whitman55]

Apparently the link box uses a couple of rings off linch pins to hold the clips on

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

I will look into that. I thought it was a spring

[@jonetveitane]

Thats correct, the pear shaped ones, not the new round ones

[@masseydriverb3582]

We had a spring that held the clips on

[@ElmerJFudd-oi9kj]

I have a TE20 modell 17 centimeters long with the 7 millimeter spanner in the toolbox. ( made in China of all places). The spanner is so small it's hard to pick it up with your fingers, imagine my suprise when I found out that small box opened and finding that famous spanner inside, ( it is an incerdible detailed modell.

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Ahhh very interesting. I also have a model. I have never checked the tool box! I will have to investigate. Cheers

[@JohnQuinn-q6n]

Ferguson spanner used to adjust the top link

[@fredmargerum1486]

It's not a myth about using the spanner as a fuel gauge. Using the imperial measurement side. 1 inch = 1 Gallon in the tank apparently..

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Right thanks. I did wonder.

[@7071SydcHome]

I remember my grandfather dipping the fuel tank with the spanner. I always thought the markings on it were a measure of fuel capacity, not length...but I was only a kid at the time. His Fergie was the TEA - yep in Aust.

[@brianovington]

All the best from. Ireland where thousands of UK s/h ferguson ended up. Could be bought for 100 quid at one time

[@radharcanna]

There were lots of them in West Donegal when I was growing up in the 1960s. There were the perfect size for the small fields and the narrow country lanes. Also light enough for carting turf (peat) on the bogs.

[@thomasearly7744]

Hi mr B, wasn't there a mk 1 and a mk 2 engine One was very hard to start We had one of those??? Can you correct me if I'm wrong, please

[@Mr_b_yorkshire_farmer]

Same engine with little changes. The later ones like mine had the fuel lift pump. Mine is a cow to start in the cold unless you give her a little pre heat and a squirt of diesel. She is away.

[@marcinlabno7061]

👍🙂

[@vincentmcdonnell7986]

Ok

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

🐍😂