The Classic Machinery Network

I went down on Monday to collect the timesheets.I allways check the tractors over and noticed the fan on the D8 was abit tooo much play in it for my liking :( .I decided to take it out of service and remove it as this problem can cause the whole fan assemblly to go tearing through the radiator and ...

Hi David,we used to run a Fiat 70c and 80c still have them but dont use anymore, the 70c i bought new in 1970 and used for secondry cultivations and drilling,a very good tractor pulled like a train and would never give up,the only confusing thing was the cluch worked backwards,pushing it forward to...

I like the period shots, and the machines as they are today Roly. What make are the subsoilers ? They look a bit like Ransomes with very large wheels ? Yes John,i think the subsoiler was Ransom but the three wheeled steam cultivator thats behind the D6c i think was Fowler,please correct me if i,m w...

Its making easy work it,great sound,as a yank once said to me who
rebuilt my V8 car engines ,theres no substitute for cubic inches

Hi Roly, Nice pic's as usuall! Is the snow gone? Here we got some white shit last night! :( Peter Hi Peter,yes snows gone,but now got rain,but it should,nt hold us up for too long :) Hi Roly, That 463 I posted some pic's of awhile back.....with in 2 week's it will be out earning it's keep! Just a s...

Thanks,Roly, I can see the other 'holes' but with their bolts in when I look carefully at the first pic. I believe that it's standard engineering practice to drill a (small) hole just beyond the end of a crack before welding up. This stops the crack spreading further. The presence of that hole will...

Nice one Graham

fitting up a cyclone after the corn dresser speeded up harvest and kept the yard free of chaff and crap from the corn by dumping the tailings and dust straight into a trailer, allowing the combines to open up there sieves and go faster letting the 20tph dresser clean up the sample, and how bad the w...

Hi David,we used to run a Fiat 70c and 80c still have them but dont use anymore, the 70c i bought new in 1970 and used for secondry cultivations and drilling,a very good tractor pulled like a train and would never give up,the only confusing thing was the cluch worked backwards,pushing it forward to ...

That's one serious crack you have there, Roly. I'd be interested to see pics of the repair job if possible, before, during and after welding up. I imagine that you'd need a special jig capable of exerting a lot of force to bring the two halves back together so that they can be welded, unless, of co...