I want to personally thank the poster who uploaded this video. This is the best piece of archived tractor history I have ever run across. Please preserve this and don't ever take it down.
I am so grateful for videos like these being uploaded as being 23 I certainly don’t remember the E1a Majors being anywhere close to new! That has not stopped me developing an obsession with them though!!
I dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I somehow lost the password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me
@Jerry Houston thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@@diggmore1362 Mudlands Farm, on the eastern edge of the Dagenham Estate, was the HQ for Ford's Tractor Field Test department. Engineering would have been at Rainham Works. We worked on prototype tractors to find out if they assembled correctly and functioned as they should. It was a tad primitive but more than interesting. Apologies for the delayed answer.....I have only just looked back and seen your comment. Oops!
@@stephensmith799 The diesel engined version was just soooo much better. I guess that TVO was a hangover and as fuel injection equipment improved the TVO and petrol engined versions withered and died. During my time at Ford Tractor I didn't see any TVO. However, we did test a Dexta with a Ford Consul engine and that wasn't successful since the torque curve fell away as the rpm decreased. In the end the Petrol engined version of the Dexta used a modified Standard Vanguard engine but I think the sales volume was low.
@@bryanbaker7292 Although we were not farmers we lived in a converted building on a 50 acre dairy farm with chickens and a few pigs. Because the farm tractor was an E27N I felt a little hostile towards Fergis and Farmalls. As a child I could never figure out how Fordson's managed to fit those balls into the ends of the lifting arms at the back forming a sliding fit which could rotate in any direction... And I still can't work it out!
@@stephensmith799 That's a trade secret! Nobody ever got their product 100% right. After my time in Field Test I spent the remainder of my time in Ford Tractor working with After Sales Service mostly in Export Markets. My advice always was to buy from the Distributor who offered the best service support in the area. My function was to try to improve dealer service capability.....I can assure you it isn't easy to train guys who most often can't read and write well to work quite complex machines. Often they don't have Repair Manuals and, as an example, we worked with our Distributor in Greece to translate the manual into Greek and circulate that to all the service shops. Overall I had a great working life.
@@bryanbaker7292 Today that would be called 'Capacity Building'. Very interesting and difficult. I can't stop thinking about those balls in lifting arms. I'm no engineer but here goes. Drill and ream the arm to a slighlty larger diameter than the ball. Insert the ball at very high temp such that it is an interference fit. Press the sides of the lifting arm around the ball (stamping). Drill through the ball while still hot. As the ball cools it will be free to rotate within the space that it has formed within the arm as a sliding fit. Err... maybe 🤔🤔🤔
@@stephensmith799 Summat like that Stephen. Fact is that of all the areas of the tractor that is one that never was brought to my attention i.e., it never gave us trouble and I don't remember a single warranty claim! Of course in my function I saw plenty of things going wrong - I rarely met up with owners who didn't have trouble...why should I? But sometimes I met up with situations where there was a lot of 'concern' and it was satisfying when they could be overcome. Also people were pleased to see me. Imagine you were the owner of a fleet of tractors on a tea estate in Kenya and you had trouble and then some bloke from Basildon calls in and, amazingly, fixes it! That was worth a whole lot of sales promotion - it happened and I did it. It was very satisfying I can tell you.
I had a 1967 ford 3000 the hydraulics were never as accurate as MF system especially on hight control ie spraying and light work otherwise they done the job ok
I want to personally thank the poster who uploaded this video. This is the best piece of archived tractor history I have ever run across. Please preserve this and don't ever take it down.
Glad you enjoyed it
Good memory ,my father bought one in 1964 , in the Dominican republic and still working in the farm.
You really can't kill these things
Great to see a old advertisement of a Dexta enjoyed it
I am so grateful for videos like these being uploaded as being 23 I certainly don’t remember the E1a Majors being anywhere close to new! That has not stopped me developing an obsession with them though!!
I dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account..?
I somehow lost the password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me
@Jakob Cain Instablaster ;)
@Jerry Houston thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Jerry Houston It worked and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thanks so much, you saved my account!
@Jakob Cain you are welcome =)
That brought back memories. I worked at Mudlands Farm on the development and test of the Dexta 1956 to 1960.
Bryan Baker sounds interesting where you on the engineering side or testing
@@diggmore1362 Mudlands Farm, on the eastern edge of the Dagenham Estate, was the HQ for Ford's Tractor Field Test department. Engineering would have been at Rainham Works. We worked on prototype tractors to find out if they assembled correctly and functioned as they should. It was a tad primitive but more than interesting. Apologies for the delayed answer.....I have only just looked back and seen your comment. Oops!
@@bryanbaker7292 Why did tractor makers give up on TVO?
@@stephensmith799 The diesel engined version was just soooo much better. I guess that TVO was a hangover and as fuel injection equipment improved the TVO and petrol engined versions withered and died. During my time at Ford Tractor I didn't see any TVO. However, we did test a Dexta with a Ford Consul engine and that wasn't successful since the torque curve fell away as the rpm decreased. In the end the Petrol engined version of the Dexta used a modified Standard Vanguard engine but I think the sales volume was low.
@@bryanbaker7292 Thanks... always good to hear from someone well placed to know
My uncle bought Fordson super major 1962 he died in 1989 ،it is still with his grandchildren ,but is a scrap ..!
Priceless!
Also nice to correspond with someone who's interested. Mudlands was quite unique within the Ford Dagenham set up.
@@bryanbaker7292 Although we were not farmers we lived in a converted building on a 50 acre dairy farm with chickens and a few pigs. Because the farm tractor was an E27N I felt a little hostile towards Fergis and Farmalls. As a child I could never figure out how Fordson's managed to fit those balls into the ends of the lifting arms at the back forming a sliding fit which could rotate in any direction... And I still can't work it out!
@@stephensmith799 That's a trade secret! Nobody ever got their product 100% right. After my time in Field Test I spent the remainder of my time in Ford Tractor working with After Sales Service mostly in Export Markets. My advice always was to buy from the Distributor who offered the best service support in the area. My function was to try to improve dealer service capability.....I can assure you it isn't easy to train guys who most often can't read and write well to work quite complex machines. Often they don't have Repair Manuals and, as an example, we worked with our Distributor in Greece to translate the manual into Greek and circulate that to all the service shops. Overall I had a great working life.
@@bryanbaker7292 Today that would be called 'Capacity Building'. Very interesting and difficult. I can't stop thinking about those balls in lifting arms. I'm no engineer but here goes. Drill and ream the arm to a slighlty larger diameter than the ball. Insert the ball at very high temp such that it is an interference fit. Press the sides of the lifting arm around the ball (stamping). Drill through the ball while still hot. As the ball cools it will be free to rotate within the space that it has formed within the arm as a sliding fit. Err... maybe 🤔🤔🤔
@@stephensmith799 Summat like that Stephen. Fact is that of all the areas of the tractor that is one that never was brought to my attention i.e., it never gave us trouble and I don't remember a single warranty claim! Of course in my function I saw plenty of things going wrong - I rarely met up with owners who didn't have trouble...why should I? But sometimes I met up with situations where there was a lot of 'concern' and it was satisfying when they could be overcome. Also people were pleased to see me. Imagine you were the owner of a fleet of tractors on a tea estate in Kenya and you had trouble and then some bloke from Basildon calls in and, amazingly, fixes it! That was worth a whole lot of sales promotion - it happened and I did it. It was very satisfying I can tell you.
5:17 thank goodness he didn't select reverse 😵 no legs below the knee
Lmao yeah imagine they'd put it into the ad
Ford; looking for your next mark
I had a 1967 ford 3000 the hydraulics were never as accurate as MF system especially on hight control ie spraying and light work otherwise they done the job ok