breakdown truck

[Dick]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 552953203/

[GHT]

I like the front part, but that hay loft on the rear end sort of puts me off.
You like beat up, old, expensive restorations. Here's the next project that the fork lift driver, where I work, is about to commence. It's called a Fordson Major. Good luck with that, I thought.

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[Dick]

Oh i love a fordson major, one of my many jobs as a teenager was to sit on the bonnet of one fitted with a forklift attachment as the driver wheelied it around the yard... it was indestructible.. i thought id treat it to some oil which it dumped all over the floor the next time i used it.. i never bothered again as the owner complained.

[Luxobarge]

That doesn't look too bad to me, it's only a bit worse than the Ford 3000 I restored a couple of years ago, main challenge will be getting mechanical parts if they're NLA. I'd take it on, lovely old bit of kit!

[Dick]

Pics of the tractor please luxo!
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[Luxobarge]

Pics of the tractor please luxo!

Posted elsewhere on here a while ago, but for you Rich, here you go:

Late 2018 my wife bought me this for my 60th birthday:



It now looks like this:





I spent all winter and spring 2019 restoring it. I still have (and use) the topper, but didn't restore it other than a brief clean up and service, it's on the tractor right now but is shown in the background under a tarp in the second photo.

More photos, taken on the very day it was completed, it hadn't done any work yet - hence the lack of chaff and dust on it!







Looks nice in the "after" pictures, but it was indescribably filthy when I got it, hadn't been properly cleaned for many years. I filled 3 large buckets with oily crud that I just scraped off, then got through over 2 gallons of kerosene cleaning the rest off, not to mention about a gallon of petrol.

Cost me nearly £2k in parts and materials too - where does all the cost go? At least these are easy to get parts for.

[Dick]

That looks lovely mate, i used to drive one many years ago.. fond memories..

[GHT]

It certainly is, what a talent you have Luxobarge. I see that you hail from Horne in Surrey, is that near Gatport Airwick? Get yourself onto the M23, head north to the M25, turn left so that you are clockwise on that motorway. Exit at the M3, drive down to the M27, head west on that motorway, follow it to the A31. Keep heading west on the A31 until you come to the A350 signposted to Blandford. At Blandford turn right onto the A354 the Blandford ring road. Where the A350 heads north, the A354 swings right, signposted Salisbury. The first village you come to is called Tarrant Hinton, and it's the home of The Great Dorset Steam Fair, held every year around the time of the August Bank Holiday. I've found you a project to exhibit, good luck.

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[Luxobarge]

Hi GHT - why thank you kind sir! Yes, it is indeed near Gatwick, Sally Satnav tells me I'm 4.7 miles away, thankfully clear of most of the noise though.

Haha, that's a proper project eh? Not one for me, I'd love to follow someone else's restoration of that though! It looks pretty complete, probably wouldn't take much to get working I'd have thought? I don't know much about steam, but I guess it all depends on the condition of the boiler, apparently it stings a bit if these things blow up.......?

Cheers!

[Dick]

I don't know why bt ive always fancied these...even if it is French
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-CITROEN-C ... e852d09efd