Category F tractor driving test?

[EltonFrog]

I test drove a new-ish one with Mrs McG last year, the wing mirror fell off while we were driving it. We didn't buy one.

I had one of the original ones back in the 80's as a company car, got stopped for speeding by plod within an hour, I was doing 40 in a 30, the copper said "I didn't know these things could got that fast" ! Cheecky sod. Bloody horrid car it was, it had deck chair type seats, no feckin radio either.

 

[Pale Rider]

we have a tractor but just not road legal and it's not worth getting it road legal for this one use. but my tractor licence will be for driving local farmers that i work for so i can drive their tractors about and do more of the tractor driving during hay season and for when i start my apprenticeship in september on a local dairy farm.

Sound plan.

I grew up on a farm and started driving tractors when I was about 11-years-old, no doubt you've done the same.

The vehicle handling skills I learned then, particularly reversing, stood me in good stead for driving a car when the time came.

 

[young Ed]

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Sound plan.

I grew up on a farm and started driving tractors when I was about 11-years-old, no doubt you've done the same.

The vehicle handling skills I learned then, particularly reversing, stood me in good stead for driving a car when the time came.

yup, been driving most things since i was about 10 or 11. i still love it when dad hires a digger for something already racked up a fair few hours in a tractor seat
Cheers Ed

 

[Pale Rider]

yup, been driving most things since i was about 10 or 11. i still love it when dad hires a digger for something already racked up a fair few hours in a tractor seat

First tractor I drove was a grey Fergie, it was old even then.

They've stood the test of time, many are still in light use today, 60-odd years after they were made.

 

[Aperitif]

When I dabbled with tractors, Massey Ferguson were the best. Rear tyre maintenance was easy, and eminently manouverable. Could be turned on a sixpence I felt, and didn't need too much elaborate garaging.
Probably got a pic. of it somewhere...Yes - with my great-grandfather Giles McGinty III at the wheel...

 

[summerdays]

First tractor I drove was a grey Fergie, it was old even then.

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Same with me, and it didn't need a tax disk or something because it did less than 6 miles a year on the road. Until a few years ago it was still in an old barn, though it hadn't moved for years.

 

[Pale Rider]

When I dabbled with tractors, Massey Ferguson were the best. Rear tyre maintenance was easy, and eminently manouverable. Could be turned on a sixpence I felt, and didn't need too much elaborate garaging.
Probably got a pic. of it somewhere...Yes - with my great-grandfather Giles McGinty III at the wheel...

My lot weren't keen on Massey Fergusons, only because they were quite a light tractor.

For example, that bucket in your pic would have tipped the Massey forwards, unless there was a lot of ballast weight on the rear towbar.

The Fordsons and then Fords of the time were heavier.

 

[Tim Hall]

It's a bit of a walk to the shops from there.

Handy for breakfast though. And I'd like to see The Grumpy Man try to shift it in the same way he does bicycles.

 

[young Ed]

First tractor I drove was a grey Fergie, it was old even then.

They've stood the test of time, many are still in light use today, 60-odd years after they were made.
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i will have an old grey fergie/ ferguson T-20 in the collection one day bomb proof an just keep going like the massey 135's. the dairy farm i'm hoping to get an apprenticeship on has a 135 for the scraper tractor
i will have one of each of these one day

or with a cab

Cheers Ed

 

[Pale Rider]

Nice pics.

I better hadn't start on grey Fergies, dual fuel and tractor vaporising oil or we will be here all day.

You will learn about that when you get one, unless you know already.

 

[young Ed]

already know the basics and i expect once i get one i will be able to do that lot blind folded soon enough!
Cheers Ed

 

[young Ed]

start on TVO then switch to petrol for running and back to TVO just before you kill engine...... there's a LOT more than that though
Cheers Ed

 

[Pale Rider]

start on TVO then switch to petrol for running and back to TVO just before you kill engine...... there's a LOT more than that though
Cheers Ed

Mmm, I think you'll find it's the other way around.

Start on petrol because it's a struggle to get thing going on TVO, but then switch to TVO because it's much cheaper than petrol.

There are also alternatives to TVO, which is hard to get now.

I think we used paraffin, but you had better check that, it might have been paraffin with a drop of something else in.

Some of the Fergies were diesel, which simplifies matters.

 

[young Ed]

yup, sorry i'm getting my words mixed up today too tired i think!
Cheers Ed

 

[young Ed]

even know a place i can get pre-mixed TVO from fairly locally
Cheers Ed