Oi, tractor lickers

[Pillock]

Is this worth owt?

All I know is that it says Ferguson on the front, it starts and drives, and it'll pop a wheelie if you're brutal with the clutch.

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

4cyl diesel - same engine as the Standard Mudguard . Can be poor starters .

TE20's aren't worth a fortune tbh - a grand maybe

[dollywobbler]

There's a pretty good market for grey Fergies. Well, any tractor really. Not helped by folk like my mate, who owns 14 of them...

[Six-cylinder]

It would work for me if you are selling it.

[Tamworthbay]

I have always fancied owning an old tractor, no idea why, I live on a 70s housing estate for fooks sake.

[hairnet]

 

chris - get on it

 

dogleg gearbox (ish) FTW

 

ps uncle shay wins at auld tat

[Pillock]

Aaaah, someone has offered £1500 so just wanted to scope out whether that was a good offer (appears so) or whether it was like someone knocking on the door when there's a Mk1 Mexico on the drive and offering 200 QUID CASH TEK IT AWAY 2NITE M8

 

It's used on the scout campsite but it's getting a bit tiresome, the old boys who use it are getting on in life, and the grass cutter is pretty dire. A golf course gave it away as scrap 20 years ago. Plans are afoot to sell it to fund a decent size ride on mower and a quad

[Six-cylinder]

I would certainly give you £1500 for it maybe a bit more depending how far you are from Buckingham.

 

Is the mower for sale? I need one to cut the camping field for shitefest

 

Have a look in the vintage tractor mags some of them have guides.

[Pillock]

The tractor is near Measham, not far off the A42 in Leics.

[Pillock]

I shall ask re the grass cutter btw

[Six-cylinder]

That comes up at 65 miles so that would be ok.

[ruffgeezer]

Mr @Pillock, I might be able to source a decent ride on mower in the next few months, and we aren't far away in south Lincs.

[Pillock]

6cyl, I shall pass your interest on.

I know they've had an offer of £1500 for just the tractor. If you PM me an email address or something I shall get the owners to drop you a message if you reckon you can stretch to more, money's money.

 

Ruffgeezer, I shall also bear you in mind when I know they're buying, but I think they wanted an identical one to the one they have (for spares and so the old boys can learn how to look after one, not two) so might already have a supplier.

[tooSavvy]

I have always fancied owning an old tractor, no idea why, I live on a 70s housing estate for fooks sake.

 

Hmm... A guy on Broadmead Way, Scotswood has a clutch of 'em. Parked outside his house, on an estate....

 

TS

[Six-cylinder]

6cyl, I shall pass your interest on.

I know they've had an offer of £1500 for just the tractor. If you PM me an email address or something I shall get the owners to drop you a message if you reckon you can stretch to more, money's money.

PM sent

[cros]

There so little chance that anyone will want so its not worth starting a separate thread for, but here goes, its worth a mention.

  Its a Nuffield 3.42.  We're had it since 1988 and will be very sad to see it go, but its too big to mow the lawn any more (trees to go under) and has been usurped by a littler Japanese one.

 

I rebuilt the engine in 1988 as it had a cracked block which I replaced with a new one; quite rare even then as its a 3 cylinder version of the motor that graces FG vans and the like. For nearly 30 years it has worked away without asking for anything- even the starter and charging system have never been touched.

[scruff]

Message incoming...

[hairnet]

ooft

[anonymous user]

I'd love another tractor, but have no justification at all for one, the first thing I drove unsupervised was a grey fergie 20 (petrol/tvo model) and when I was trusted with that I was upgraded to the 35. I've always fancied one of the tiny Austin tractors, but have yet to see one at a price I can afford when I have the money and anywhere to put it.

 

As for living on a housing estate with one, a family friend did just that and bought one when he retired, he occasionally used it to go down to the post-office it's a few years ago now and he did have a bit of fun trying to insure it at the time for road use. In the end he got cover on the basis that he was thinking about buying some land.

[Six-cylinder]

As for living on a housing estate with one, a family friend did just that and bought one when he retired, he occasionally used it to go down to the post-office it's a few years ago now and he did have a bit of fun trying to insure it at the time for road use. In the end he got cover on the basis that he was thinking about buying some land.

When we bought our tractor we had no land and insured it as a classic car, in fact the road risk was the easy part. I am now with Hagerty and it is easy to insure. We took it to a local pub for a new Years day VSSC gathering one year. With our open have this weekend it will be available to test drive!

 

Another Tractor maybe!

[DaveDorson]

There so little chance that anyone will want so its not worth starting a separate thread for, but here goes, its worth a mention.

  Its a Nuffield 3.42.  We're had it since 1988 and will be very sad to see it go, but its too big to mow the lawn any more (trees to go under) and has been usurped by a littler Japanese one.

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I rebuilt the engine in 1988 as it had a cracked block which I replaced with a new one; quite rare even then as its a 3 cylinder version of the motor that graces FG vans and the like. For nearly 30 years it has worked away without asking for anything- even the starter and charging system have never been touched.

I'd love to turn up to work in that

[AnthonyG]

Lovely. Did it only ever have one headlight or did the other one go missing in action at some point in time?

 

I would guess that's worth £1500-2000 easy, and possibly more - Nuffields are quite a bit rarer than Fergusons or Fordsons, which can help values. Grey Fergies are ubiquitous, the Morris Minor of the tractor world, albeit still very good at field work.

 

Another aspect of the vintage tractor market is that original 'oily rag' ones like that are valued higher than shiny restored ones with fresh paint.

 

One of the vintage tractor mags will have a price guide.

[cros]

One headlight was what it came with from the factory. These things now make way less than a MF 135 and were a bit of an oddball in that it's simply the larger model with one less cylinder and smaller wheels and was thus over-built, heavy and expensive. The upside is that it could exert more tractive effort than its rivals. It's the tractor equivalent to a Montego 1.3. Good guesswork on price!

[cros]

 This was my Cropmaster as the new owner took it away. It was the early type fitted with a double seat as standard- the clutch pedal is on the right side and the brakes worked by hand levers. The most awkward thing to use and a very early diesel engine from just after the war. Wouldn't pull a hen off its nest.

 

Saving the best til last its a BTD5 international. Light enough to tow behind a Landrover, heavy enough to make every one else wish you couldn't. They are a very useful machine, great to drive, and rarer than a good modern car. This was when I first got it home- I subsequently repainted it and it looked nice. Very fast- for a tracked machine!