Tractor shite

[DodgeRover]

Did Lincolnshire keep their old records when the DVLA took over? Some counties did, otherwise you need something to tie the plate to the vehicle, receipts old tax discs bluff logbook etc.

[Vin]

Thanks, I'll help them look for any bits and pieces and find out where they could be. If nothing available, I'll make some enquiries with the appropriate council...

[Clanger]

Daily drivers...

 

Being driven from Nobber   to Kilarney and thence on to do some sponsored tourist annoying by driving the Ring of Kerry at about 7 mph

[Clanger]

Here's one I got stuck in a puddle...

[NorthernMonkey]

The little blue Leyland was collected by its new owner on Monday...my mate has been clearing the shed out where it lived ready for his latest acquisition which should be delivered in the next week or two...

 

 

I'm pretty certain it won't physically fit in there so I can see it living in my yard but it'll be handy for nipping to the chippy in at lunch time...

[Six-cylinder]

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I'm pretty certain it won't physically fit in there so I can see it living in my yard but it'll be handy for nipping to the chippy in at lunch time...

 

I have been to the pub on mine!

[Dirk Diggler]

There was a farmer lived near me who died about 10 years ago; his two modes of transport were a Honda 50 ridden with bicycle clips and a flat cap and the doppelgänger of the Ford above

 

He always took the tractor on heavier drinking sessions for safety reasons

[Vin]

My step-mother has just got a tractor. It belonged to her father, who recently died. The tractor has been sat in a barn for many years...

 

It's a 1947 Ferguson TE20 with a Continental Z120 engine. It's had an aftermarket TVO conversion as I'm sure the Continental was only available from the factory as a petrol. It's also got a V5 and is on the system which is handy.

 

Everything works and moves, except the engine. We've had it in gear and gently rocked it back and forth, but no joy. The plan is to put some diesel down the bores and leave it for a bit...

 

 

 

[tooSavvy]

We were out in ToMM© the other weekend and passed thru Wolsingham. There was a show over the weekend and as we drove out, to Crook, we were stuck behind two old tractors.

 

They were doing about 15MPH and not passable, given twists in road, and held up a $hitload of traffic... Is it not so that 'S..L..O..W' farm shite must heave over to allow the tail to shoot by??

 

TS

[UltraWomble]

Yeah

But fun watching them bounce

[mr_fish]

Had our work cut out with this one.

 

Seized Engine, Seized Clutch

 

Does start and run now. Steering is all to hell, next job on the list.

 

[Arthur Foxhake]

Mr Fish!

 

I recognise that name.

And that trailer/pick up combo.

You have my/Jordans old 309.

Strayed over here now then eh? Things are a bit quiet over on the 306 forum these days aren't they.

[mr_fish]

Mr Fish!

 

I recognise that name.

And that trailer/pick up combo.

You have my/Jordans old 309.

Strayed over here now then eh? Things are a bit quiet over on the 306 forum these days aren't they.

 

hah, yeah think it was you who mentioned this forum. Actually got around to looking it up. some of the threads on here are entertaining.

 

Yeah unfortunately the 306 scene is quietened down now.

[Vin]

Do any of you Tractor pervs know how easy it will be to retain the number plate on this??

 

It's a Kendall 3 wheeler made in Grantham, Lincolnshire. The number is a 1947 issue, so ties in with the period they were built and DO is a South Lincolnshire identifier.

 

There is no V5 that I am aware of and the number isn't coming up on any online checks that I know of...

 

It would be a shame to lose it...

 

Very poor picture...

 

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Had some good news on this!!

 

There is no V5 or any documentation with this and it is also now in the safe hands of my step-brother...

 

I got in touch with the county archives in Lincoln and established that they had what was required, to try and get the number back on the system.

 

So after a few weeks, they sent me copies of the registration ledger (Date booked/supplying agent/registered owner/address/make of vehicle/(hp,cc,uw,etc)/date registered) for the numbers BDO121C through to BDO 150C from 1965...and a copy of the transfer docket for BDO 149C (a Triumph Herald) from Holland County Council to Warwickshire County Council in February 1970...

 

Right documents, but wrong vehicle and year...

 

A phone call on Monday had the correct 1947 documents in the post and they are spot on.

 

I have a copy of the registration ledger for BDO121 to BDO150. BDO 149 is in there as a 'Kendall' and there is the supplying agent and the first owner too. There is also a copy of the docket stating. 'This vehicle has been   BROKEN UP    EXPORTED   NOT LICENSED FOR THREE YEARS

                                                                    Registration book         SURRENDERED        NOT SURRENDERED

                                                                    (Delete lines as necessary)

                                                                    Papers will be destroyed on receipt of Home Council's acknowledgement by

                                                                    Stamped     Holland C.C. 13 Feb 70

 

On the other side of the docket the following has been written where required - the reg number, the make (Kendall), chassis number, date of first registration, last licence expiry (31/12/59) and the name and address of the last known owner...

 

All this for £9.97 inc. postage. Over the moon with it, as it is exactly what we need - the copies are all stamped and certified as being from the Lincolnshire archives. :)

 

As for the Fergie, the bores have been soaking with diesel, will be about four weeks now..

[Vin]

I thought I'd better post some pictures I took a couple of weeks ago. It was a ploughing match, not far from me, at a place called Worlaby Top. I was only there for about an hour. TBH, the ploughing aspect doesn't interest me, but the tractors do...

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

That 8830 gives me strange feelings !

[puddlethumper]

Quite a lot of them give me strange feelings. Great pics Vin.

[twosmoke300]

Agreed some crackers there but many are " before my time "

Loads of 10 series q cab stuff in the neighbouring farms when I grew up but nowt as Flash as the 8830 . I had posters of big Ford tw's on my bedroom wall as a teenager - sad eh ?

[junkyarddog]

Interesting 4wd conversion on a little 135 spotted earlier this year.

[junkyarddog]

 

Zetor 2511,

Be still my beating heart

[twosmoke300]

Dads currently restoring a 3011

[CreepingJesus]

Apologies for the scuzzy pics, phone's acting up...

 

Couple of County 6x6's if I'm right? The one in front with the paint, is the one that was doing sterling service on the Queensferry Crossing build. Can't remember if I posted that pic!

Bonus fucked JCB of some vintage.

[mr_fish]

Rowed up like taxis

 

 

[puddlethumper]

I went to a Tractor show. Lots of tractor shite.

[puddlethumper]

There was Unimog shite as well. I think Unimogs are ace.

[puddlethumper]

And miniature tractor shite, RC tractor shite and meccano shite.

[puddlethumper]

This fuck off machine, seen further up, was owned by a young guy, 25 ish,

and new has 260 bhp. He'd added extras and got it up to 320. It might not be 

considered shite but the sound was fuckin amazing. I mean look at the back end.

If you like an tractor you have to be slightly impressed. Well, I is.

There was some log dragging going on and they didn't have enough to make

this thing slow down at all and the noise? tractor trouser tent stuff.

[brownnova]

I discovered yesterday that a colleague of mine is a Tractor botherer... He has 5 apparently!  

[martc]

Well here's something I didn't know about until about 5 minutes ago - electric tractors, in the USSR of course. Developed in the late 40's when oil was expensive but electricity cheap (at least in the USSR following mass building of hydro electric stations), they were connected by a cable on a drum to a 1000 volt (yes 1000 volt) supply.

Needless to say thet weren't a great success. The length of the cable determined the area of field they could work, you needed to be near a high voltage electic supply, the cables quickly wore out when dragged over stoney fields and you need some sort of ICE transport to drag them to the next job. When vast oil fields where discovered in Kazakhstan the whole idea was banged on the head.

Details and more pics here - https://masterok.livejournal.com/4147654.html

 

[somewhatfoolish]

Impressively terrifying, running anything mobile on a 1000v extension lead boggles the mind.