Category F tractor driving test?

[Pale Rider]

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

No worries.

Sometimes I would forget to switch back to petrol before stopping.

Not the end of the world, because it's easy enough to drain the TVO from the little glass fuel filter at the side of the engine.

Only trouble was I would get a ticking off from the farmer for wasting half a cup of fuel.

 

[young Ed]

No worries.

Sometimes I would forget to switch back to petrol before stopping.

Not the end of the world, because it's easy enough to drain the TVO from the little glass fuel filter at the side of the engine.

Only trouble was I would get a ticking off from the farmer for wasting half a cup of fuel.

put it back into tank
Cheers Ed

 

[Pale Rider]

put it back into tank
Cheers Ed

Spoken like a proper farmer.

I can't recall, but we might have caught the drained fuel in a cup and done just that.

I think some of the guys who have a Fergie for show don't bother changing fuel.

Not worth the saving if they only chug on and off a trailer and on and off a show field.

 

[Mattonsea]

Yep I have a lad who works for me who has done the test, he found it easy so you should be fine ! Do you have to do a proficiency test as well.Usualy on a driving lot at an Agricultural college . I can give you some work experience on my Dairy farm for a week or two ! If your after more ?

 

[young Ed]

Yep I have a lad who works for me who has done the test, he found it easy so you should be fine ! Do you have to do a proficiency test as well.Usualy on a driving lot at an Agricultural college . I can give you some work experience on my Dairy farm for a week or two ! If your after more ?

PM in bound!
Cheers Ed

 

[classic33]

not passed yet, still need to ask lacal farmer if i can borrow his



if you want reliability you want a ford mondeo, our last one went to the scrap with over 210,000 miles on the block and only because the rear suspension was going as we always had it loaded up heavy at the rear and it used to tow a caravan weighing more than a ton up and down welsh mountains never had anything go wrong with it during it's 12 or so years!
Cheers Ed

Volkswagon beetle, old style. In one when it clocked a 1,000,000 miles.
Similar car carried a bull in the back.

 

[classic33]

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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TE or 20?

 

[classic33]

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...

Possibly worth £20. Be more but the box has been sellotaped.

 

[young Ed]

Yep I have a lad who works for me who has done the test, he found it easy so you should be fine ! Do you have to do a proficiency test as well.Usualy on a driving lot at an Agricultural college . I can give you some work experience on my Dairy farm for a week or two ! If your after more ?

no proficiency part needed to legally drive it on the road. just apply for provisional and then take practical test and jobbie done!
oh course an employer could send employees on a course on general tractor driving and safe operation of such machines or tractor and trailer reversing etc if they so well wished to but no legal requirement there

Volkswagon beetle, old style. In one when it clocked a 1,000,000 miles.
Similar car carried a bull in the back.

dead reliable no doubt, but also not too nice to drive 1,000,000 miles in?
you could make a fiat go 1,000,000 miles if you wanted it would just need a hell of a lot of repairs and new parts along the way!
Cheers Ed

 

[classic33]

no proficiency part needed to legally drive it on the road. just apply for provisional and then take practical test and jobbie done!
oh course an employer could send employees on a course on general tractor driving and safe operation of such machines or tractor and trailer reversing etc if they so well wished to but no legal requirement there

dead reliable no doubt, but also not too nice to drive 1,000,000 miles in?
you could make a fiat go 1,000,000 miles if you wanted it would just need a hell of a lot of repairs and new parts along the way!
Cheers Ed

Went a lot further than the 1,000,000 miles in the next nine months.

 

[Pale Rider]

TE or 20?

No idea.

It had the optional extra foot plates, which amounted to no more than a short plank of drilled mild steel hung off the foot pegs and back axle.

Made it a lot easier to get on and off.

It was light and manoeuvrable which made it quite fun to drive - for a tractor.

 

[Headgardener]

Nearest that I got to driving a tractor was a Kubota B6000 and B6100 Horticultural tractor during my gardening course.

 

[Pale Rider]

Nearest that I got to driving a tractor was a Kubota B6000 and B6100 Horticultural tractor during my gardening course.

The Kubota is probably bigger than a grey Fergie.

A few market gardens still use Fergies because they are roughly the right size and spec.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Orchard near us had a couple, when they were in business. Did all sorts of work, agricultural and touristy jobs as well.

 

[slowmotion]

I used to bimble about in Cornwall on a wreck of a launch that ran on TVO. I spent days cranking the handle to get it started/re-started. A quite hateful engine really. Actually, it was probably marginally better those ghastly petrol Stuart Turners.