Tractorshite - 1957 Massey Furguson with a broken gearbox

[Six-cylinder]

It's not very shitey; is there not a british equivalent made by Bristol/Fowler/Ruston/Newton Chambers?

 

But my dad had hired one to work cutting a green field building site in the late 60s, I watched and was effected as a child!

[UltraWomble]

Have you got a number plate on years?

Yes - its an ex Fylde Borough Council machine and like those battery powered hand operated rubbish trucks was "registered".

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

It's not very shitey; is there not a british equivalent made by Bristol/Fowler/Ruston/Newton Chambers?

 

The British equivalent is the Priestman Cub.

A garden shed on tracks that digs holes!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAE0xGf5Tb8

[Six-cylinder]

The British equivalent is the Priestman Cub.

A garden shed on tracks that digs holes!

 

I am not sure dragline machines were ever used to level and shape building sites.

[Six-cylinder]

Yes - its an ex Fylde Borough Council machine and like those battery powered hand operated rubbish trucks was "registered".

 

I guess it is a mower like any other but you can't disengage the power blades once it is in drive and taking it out and about in public with that scissor action at the front happening is frightening!

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

I am not sure dragline machines were ever used to level and shape building sites.

A Ruston drag line levelled the site in Livingston where the Morrisons and (now gone) B&Q were built in 2004.

(I remember being surprised at the time!)

[DodgeRover]

It's not very shitey; is there not a british equivalent made by Bristol/Fowler/Ruston/Newton Chambers?

Weren't international tractors built in Bradford?

[scruff]

I am pretty sure Drotts are British (and they are deffo very shitey)

[Six-cylinder]

Weren't international tractors built in Bradford?

 

From 1955 until 1982, the American tractor company International Harvester operated from a plant at Five Lane Ends, Bradford, which is now the site of Morrisons Supermarket.

[Six-cylinder]

I am pretty sure Drotts are British (and they are deffo very shitey)

 

The Drott 4-in-1 bucket was built in the UK under license by Rubery Owen who supplied International Harvester and other OEM's for fitting to crawler loaders, wheeled excavators and tractor loaders.

[EyesWeldedShut]

[DSdriver]

Nick one out of a Jensen?

[Nick57]

Used to drive one of those decades ago. Reversing a trailer could be tricky as you could have up to 3 pivot points.