Craddocks experience.

They had their own engines in as well, Freeman-Sanders cylinder head with side injectors on the early ones, then Riccardo heads later on and easier to start.

Martin

hugh uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Yeah this one has the hook too. Just short of gadgets for it.

:-)

Lee D

In message , Lee_D writes

According to the owner I spoke to the hooks are quite rare.

In message , Austin Shackles writes

Used to plough with it every year. No problem - but yes miniature compared to today's tractors - and only 2 wheel drive of course.

You might find one of the little old McConnell diggers that would fit on the linkage, but I think the Fergy's hydraulics would struggle.

The fore-end loaders for 20s could be astonishing devices - I had one that attached behind the driver, so it was like sitting between two bloody great pairs of scissors. You had to climb on over the back of the seat, and then remember not to lean sideways. The "banana" loaders were perhaps the best-known - named after their shape, rather than their function.

Getting back to ploughs - setting one up isn't at all obvious unless you were born to it, so you'll perhaps need a Book of Words, They also need to be really smooth and clean - like they will be after a couple of acres, but not necessarily after they've been stored outside the barn for a few years. Be wary of the Fergy single furrow deep digger plough - they really make that little engine grunt - if your tyres are good enough to provide the traction.

I swapped my 20 for an MF135 - old enough and small enough to be a reasonable price, but with enough power, and a dual clutch / live PTO, so even I could mow and bale with it. And you _must_ have a Wuffler, if only because it's such a good name.

On or around Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:50:31 -0000, "Autolycus" enlightened us thusly:

The biggest advantage on the 135 (and indeed the 35) is the dual-range gearbox and a really low 1st gear.