What Did You See Today?

[Mick_J]

My mother died of pancreatic cancer in March this year, cancer really is a bastard.

[Andre]

cancer really is a bastard.

... especially pancreatic cancer. Five year survival stats: 8%! Absolutely no advances made in therapy. Available "therapies" have nasty consequences. If I had it, I would likely refuse therapy.

My mom had peritoneal cancer but died from cardiac issue. Supposed to be rare type but next door neighbor had it as well and died from it. Makes me wonder.

[Tony Nitrous]

31 degrees C today.

[Pommeroy]

Envious! I had a Massey 35 when I lived in Canterbury...loved mowing the long mile, which was a total of 8kms and took a couple of hours. Pure bliss 

[MickyJB]

Our 1953 Grey Fergie we had ... the youngest daughter in the pic is now 42 🫣🥴🫤😳😱

[Kiwifruit]

Our Jacaranda is finally flowering. Have seen some really stunning ones. So long after yours grog.

[grog]

Jacas long time gone here. Old Fergie, my Dad had one, we put a clutch in it, that was a feat i wish i had vision of. Vanguard Standard motor, some of old stuff just priceless.We bought Ford 4000 tractor, faulty hydraulics, fixed easily. I put on full motorcycle Winter gear, i was around 18 yrs old, drove it around 100 ks at top speed, maybe 30 mph.  Some things hard to forget.

[Tony Nitrous]

Envious! I had a Massey 35 when I lived in Canterbury...loved mowing the long mile, which was a total of 8kms and took a couple of hours. Pure bliss 

Mines a 135 with the Perkins Diesel AD3 3- cylinder 2.5 ltr engine. In my eyes it's the oldest of the modern tractors, the first of the Old Skool basic ones that are still good work tools.



I've done a bit of work to it, but they are very user friendly. Amazingly for a 50 year old machine so much is available locally over the counter. My local store has seats, steering wheel, all fuel and oil filters, even body work and the clocks in stock and very reasonably priced.

My family have a LOT of tractors between them, my father has Fergie's from an early little TE20 (Little Grey Fergie) up to a 185, as well as a Power Major, a lug wheel Nuffield and others.

The beauty of the 135 is the global sales and how many are still working day, from India and Africa to a lot of small holdings and market gardens here in Australia. It took me a while to find the one I wanted but it was an easy project to tidy up and service.



It's an on going project, I still need some weights for the front and need to tidy up some of the electrics, but it's a reliable solid little work horse as it is. Folk laugh that it takes me a while to mow but I find it great therapy.

[Tony Nitrous]

.We bought Ford 4000 tractor, faulty hydraulics, fixed easily.

 Some things hard to forget.

We bought an massive loading shovel, huge thing like you see in a quarry.  It'd been parked up with an open exhaust and one cylinder was filled with water, rusted and seized. Sold as scrap.

We got it running again, but when we tried to register it to use between properties there was no chassis numbers or build numbers anywhere on it. Dept of Transport set off alarm bells and we had a visit from the stolen vehicle squad.

(It was very odd, turn it off with the arm up and you could get out, the chassis cross member stopped you changing a belt or removing a pulley. Lots of questionable stuff)

It dragged on for a while until an expect on tractors turned up, laughed, and said it was never for sale, it was a very early prototype the design team had built to test ideas on.
The original builder had financial problems and the receivers had sold it off to a farmer.



Another one we had, had a huuuuge winch on the back. A very old tractor but ridiculously low miles and showed almost no wear.

I'd had spent its whole life parked up undercover in factories rarely being used. Its sole job for several decades was in one suburb of Birmingham it had the role of pulling power cables underground in the industrial factories and production lines.


Tractors are to my father like bikes are to some of us.

[Pommeroy]

It looks to be in great nick Tony, and I completely agree about slow-mowing therapy.

I feel like I'm introducing an addict to a new dealer, but have you seen vintagetractorengineer.com? My 1958 MF35 needed a new cylinder head gasket, so I ordered the engine overhaul DVD from them and played it in the barn on a 2" thick old Sony laptop, pausing every few seconds to do what it showed. Went great until they talked of the tool they had just made to enable a step to be completed! With a bit of number-8 wire thinking, I got there in the end.
I also bought the hydraulics overhaul DVD, from them...it was equally magnificent.

[GSXKING]

So the little Masseys left our yard today to get housed in a private collection somewhere in NSW. The loaders tell me he's obsessed with them and has many of them. He also collects Falcon cars, farming equipment etc.

[Pommeroy]

So the little Masseys left our yard today to get housed in a private collection somewhere in NSW. The loaders tell me he's obsessed with them and has many of them. He also collects Falcon cars, farming equipment etc.

I think "obsessed" is a bit harsh to describe an avid fan of something...that's what I've repeatedly told my wife, and said I'm preserving treasures of our heritage for  the benefit of future generations. Has that actually ever worked for any of you??

[grog]

Today gsxr rider behind me, he saw my motorcycle aware sticker on my car. He decided to perform.About 3 very fast full throttle wheelstands, even a stoppie, when he passed i got thumbs up. No wonder we get bad press.

[VladTepes]

Chris - when you say your yard do you mean home or work. If the former how did you come to have on in such good nick?


An old Ford 8N turned up in a barn near me and I was hoping to grab it cheap as a bit of a project. Not that I have ANY need or room for a tractor but I love those particular ones. Anyone some old guy bought it before I could and has moved it to his property where he apparently has dozens and dozens of vintage tractors rotting away in a field refusing to sell to anyone and never restoring any of them. Miserable old prick.

an 8N looks like this (wiki image)

[GSXKING]

Work Vlad they're imports so had to go through quarantine cleaning etc. I couldn't take pic's until they got clearance and loaded on to low loader. Funny what and why people collect things. I'm sure it's a mental disorder in some people's case. Imagine collecting then letting them rust away seems idiotic to us.
I was fortunate enough to view a Cobb & Co private collection in Warwick a few years back with Paddy O'Shea RIP he was friends with the collector. Most restored to their former glory at huge costs. One in originally  collected condition to give a comparison.
We were able to touch feel and sit on them all as we were honoured guests.
I've travelled in a Cobb & Co coach in Longreach since and had a wonderful experience. 1 hours was enough, not sure how they travelled from Brisbane 😳😳