@@CalamityKim1Yes. Please stop. Cumulative damage will be permanent. Rawhide face,copper face,plastic face,dead blow,wooden mallet(mallets), different sizes,shapes. Not particularly expensive,the grief saved is enormous.
Wow, Kim.I am well impressed by your dismantling skills . Great job very much looking forward to video number 2 . What a fabulous restoration project.😀👍❤
Thats a cool lil' Machine There😍Hey, If you go for the next Tool Haul, you may think about this Grip tongue that pulls off gas and oil Hoses! They are a saver for the knuckles!
I “drove” one of these back in 1974, a schoolmate took me down to his place one dinner time, took the tarp of her, fired her up and loads of fun….. first tracked vehicle I ever operated…. 👍👍👍
i had one of those way back in the 1980's mine required gearbox drive units repair as the very big ball races collapsed, very expensive bearings. it was a fun little crawler tractor
I think it's quite clever that you used a wheel puller and impact driver to pull out the bearings and some of the gears, I would've never thought to do that.
Brilliant video!!! i love those crawler tractors I've wanted one for years....less these days thanks to my current project an m3 Stuart tank, but still love the video and I'm keen as a bean for the next one on your tractor!! top work and howdy from South Australia
I used to ride around on one of these things way back in the day when I was about 12-13 (58 years ago). Our neighbour had an orchard that he used his for, for spraying with a reciprocating pump that mounted on the back that was driven by the PTO shaft and fed from a tank trailer that he towed behind. The neighbour on the other side had strawberry fields the rows in which he planted to accomodate the width of the tracks. He also used it for planting the strawberries too with a sit-on planter that was attached by a lifting hitch. These things were fairly common back then and popular with strawberry growers in the area. (southern England).
Remember father owned a M G 2 when I was about 8 years old, To cultivate a huge piece of land, The crank start would sometimes kick back and your wrists would be caught between the front bumper and the starting handle, We only ever had problems with the magneto but that was repaired and never was no more trouble, This all happened back in the 1960. Great litter crawler with rubber on the tracks so you were able to run it on hard road surfaces,
Brings back memories, I did an MG 6 with a two stroke diesel when I first retired. Couldn't have done it without parts and advice from Neil in Wales. You are a lot quicker than I was!.
Really enjoy when you put your knowledge and problem solving skills to work on a project 😊 you inspire your followers to get up and get going on our projects! Much respect ✊
Wow Kim you tore into that one fast, I do hope you can remember how it all goes back together. Great video and looking forward to following the repair/restoration and rebuild.
Great little machines. The boatmen used to use them on the Isle of Wight (at Sandown Bay and Seagrove Bay) to haul the hire boats up the beach at the end of the day. That would have been in the sixties and early seventies. I guess most of those would have suffered from rust badly because of the salt, and the sand would have worn the tracks badly.
As a 14/15 year old kid living on a farm I used to drive one of these Ransome crawlers shimming cabbages and cauliflowers. It never misswd a beat but my word did it drink petrol, I was forever walking across the field beck to the farm with a gerry can. Happy days.
Too true. As a carpenter, I hang onto the weird flat metal spanners provided with sliding door hardware; and some other odd bits of installation hardware. They have saved me road trips and work time, more than once. When I have a surplus, they can go to apprentices or other tradesmen, at need.
I noticed you use your hands as a hammer! It's not good Kim, I've done it for years and now suffer the consequences, painfull! Try to get in the habit of using soft hammers for that job, I wish I had. I'm looking forward to following this restoration, I remember watching one in my childhood 50yrs ago and thinking what a hoot it would have been to drive.
I'll follow with interest my Dad rebuilt one in the eighties he had trouble sourcing track rubbers and with the Magneto but once he sorted that out it gave him 20years of trouble free use.
Wow, what a beauty. Friends of ours had one of these on their farm in the 60s. As kids, we’d spend hours playing “tanks” around the paddock. I never knew what sort of machine it was until now.
I have driven a replica of this Ransomes Crawler in Iraq back in the 1980s, diesel powered instead, attached to it various farming implements - Fun! - but never trouble-free. Thanks for sharing this video with us.
Great vid as always, the market gardeners here in the vale of Evesham championed them. They had alsorts of implements for them, mostly made by local blacksmiths.
Great video Kim. I've always been a fan of the Ransomes Crawler - there's some quality engineering on them. Your video took me back to my full "nut & bolt" restoration on my old Bobcat 371.... Happy Days 😊 thanks - keep up the good work 👏
Well done Kim , the crawler looks a great project. No messing starting on the strip down . Looking forward to the rest of the installments. Great video 👍🔧🔧
Very nice job so far. I would love to see the results. I have a MG5 that has been sitting for about 40 years and you are giving me the inspiration to start working on it.
I need to finish putting my other tractor together first. I am waiting on one part coming from South Korea. Once that is finished, it’s on to the Ransom’s. It’s been sitting for a long time and may be rusted solid.
What a cute little crawler, never seen one but now I have I want one. You certainly have an impressive skill set Kim, I very much prefer watching you work than some dizzy twit dancing around in her JimJams.
I’ve always like the old Ransomes stuff after picking up a multi mower with a siezed engine from an allotment followed a couple more mowers 😬. The crawler was always something that intrigued me! Looking forward to seeing how you get on 👍
I definitely aprove of your promoting Topdon diagnostic tools, they seem to cover and find more faults than other brands and are very affordable, though I personally prefer the "topdon artidiag 600 S". Its served me well 👍
You got a tough job there Kim, but it's gonna be worth it as these are now very rare, was well impressed with the way you disassembled the crawler, looking forward to the next instalment.
@@CalamityKim1 Hi Kim, I just noticed there is a crawler up for auction on 19/8/23 at HJ Pughs in Ledbury, it's on their online catalogue, item number 865
I’ve found having a old set of Britool sockets about are useful for getting awkward bolts out, maybe because that’s the tools they had at the time it was made. Looking forward to next episode!
You always make good videos of your projects, this will be an interesting restoration, can’t wait for the next episode now , well done, Thankyou 😊😊😊👍👍👍
Great video Kim 👍 mate of mine just in the process of finishing touches to his MG5 which doesn't have a PTO😕 and a different engine 🤔 just gonna share this video with him an a bit of luck another sub to your channel 👌
Good work on the crawler, it only looks small but when you strip it down to parts and look at the parts you think to yourself “where the f**k do all them go” a excellent magneto is the key to them starting and running right, I have just bought a 1939caterpillar r2 crawler
My literal thoughts haha. So much stuff but I have the engine in one plastic box and most of the other bits on the corner of the bench. I can start going through each part bit by bit.
Yep, too many bits for my brain to cope with. I wonder does she have a manual. It's like a meccano set now, lots of bits and many ways to get it wrong on assembly if it was me 🤔
Fantastic video Kim! Love the crawler, I have one identical makes me want to get it going too! For that stuck bearing I’d get the hot spanner out or I would weld around the race.
That is the cutest thing I've ever seen. I'm not being inappropriate I meant the tractor not you Kim But I'm not saying that you're not cute either In an appropriate way This has unravelled really quickly somehow Erm...... Well done Kim 👍
Hi Kim, Looks like you can't wait around on this one, I have in my garden a MG5 which i intend to finish off soon, I'm currently re-metaling the Track Plates as they are worn down and badly need done, Earlier Engines were i think Sturmy Archer (The Bicycle Gear People), mine is a Ransomes 600cc single, I havn't time to watch the whole episode at the mo, so will pick up on it later, Great Work you do.
I like your handiwork and your filmmaking as well. The part of your hand you use to strike things is full of nerve endings which can accumulate damage and not show it for some time; caveat emptor.
I went from watching you drive an M4 Sherman to getting yourself a mini-tank! (This is why I love your channel!)
what a cute little machine.
keep up the good work kim
What a piece of engineering
I love your gusto young lady, not much is going to stand in your way. Looking forward to seeing the next video. Thanks for your time. Bye.
Second on using your hands as hammers! Make an Amazon wish list and include dead blow hammers. I’ll gladly pony up to save your hands. Awesome video!
Thanks Bob, that’s very kind. I do have some hammers I’m impatient. I know I need to stop doing it though. 😔
@@CalamityKim1Yes. Please stop. Cumulative damage will be permanent. Rawhide face,copper face,plastic face,dead blow,wooden mallet(mallets), different sizes,shapes. Not particularly expensive,the grief saved is enormous.
What a cool old machine! I saved a 1944 Ford 2N about 2 years ago. It's been incredibly reliable and fun to operate. Keep up the awesome work!
Wow, Kim.I am well impressed by your dismantling skills . Great job very much looking forward to video number 2 . What a fabulous restoration project.😀👍❤
Thanks Chris.
Thats a cool lil' Machine There😍Hey, If you go for the next Tool Haul, you may think about this Grip tongue that pulls off gas and oil Hoses! They are a saver for the knuckles!
Wow you don't fool around.. great video Kim.
I “drove” one of these back in 1974, a schoolmate took me down to his place one dinner time, took the tarp of her, fired her up and loads of fun….. first tracked vehicle I ever operated…. 👍👍👍
cute little rig
My 7 year old daughter has started watching your vids now, such a cool project!
What a cool looking crawler 🔧🔩 Nice work on the teardown
Thanks 😁
Spot on young Lady your enthusiasm shines through. Excellent.
excellent and enjoyable video
Well done lass (that’s as plain as it gets)
Nice strip down just don't let mucker near it he breaks stuff 😂 can't wait for the next installment 👍
Wow. You know you’re way around engines and tools. Good job.
Love it.
Brilliant. . I will look forward to the next instalment. . 👍👍
i had one of those way back in the 1980's
mine required gearbox drive units repair as the very big ball races collapsed, very expensive bearings.
it was a fun little crawler tractor
My grandfather had one and I loved it when I was a kid back in the 1970s
Heat & penetrating oil. VERY Cool! 'and suprising, I though English ladies could only sip tea with their pinkie extended.
Cool
I think it's quite clever that you used a wheel puller and impact driver to pull out the bearings and some of the gears, I would've never thought to do that.
Brilliant video!!! i love those crawler tractors I've wanted one for years....less these days thanks to my current project an m3 Stuart tank, but still love the video and I'm keen as a bean for the next one on your tractor!! top work and howdy from South Australia
I’ve never heard of one of those machines before. It’s always awesome to see someone bringing some of that classic gear back to life👍😊
Thanks Max, i hate seeing old machinery destroyed. Nice to fix something up!
I used to ride around on one of these things way back in the day when I was about 12-13 (58 years ago). Our neighbour had an orchard that he used his for, for spraying with a reciprocating pump that mounted on the back that was driven by the PTO shaft and fed from a tank trailer that he towed behind. The neighbour on the other side had strawberry fields the rows in which he planted to accomodate the width of the tracks. He also used it for planting the strawberries too with a sit-on planter that was attached by a lifting hitch. These things were fairly common back then and popular with strawberry growers in the area. (southern England).
I bet that was so fun as a child playing with them! Great to hear stories like this though. There’s so much history behind them.
❤❤❤❤❤❤😮 wow
Never seen one of these before. Only know of Ransomes here in the US from their grounds mowers..
Looking forward to seeing the following videos Kim , what a great little machine that is. Take care and stay safe.👍
My dad bought me a MG5 when I was a kid, just to pootle around our land, good memories. I'm looking forward to watching your progress.
È un piacere per me vedere una ragazza con la passione per la meccanica ed una preparazione come la tua . Brava Kim👍
Remember father owned a M G 2 when I was about 8 years old, To cultivate a huge piece of land, The crank start would sometimes kick back and your wrists would be caught between the front bumper and the starting handle, We only ever had problems with the magneto but that was repaired and never was no more trouble, This all happened back in the 1960. Great litter crawler with rubber on the tracks so you were able to run it on hard road surfaces,
I have never seen one of these machines before. You really tore into it. I look forward to seeing you bring it back to running condition again.
Awesome I didn't realise the ransome had an obd port 😂
Now you do 🤣
Brings back memories, I did an MG 6 with a two stroke diesel when I first retired. Couldn't have done it without parts and advice from Neil in Wales. You are a lot quicker than I was!.
I see him on the Facebook page. I will probably be in caontact with him at some point. I need some parts.
I always liked the look of the little Ransomes crawler, I'm very jealous Kim!
Sorry haha.
Don’t think I have ever seen a Ransomes crawler before awesome video looking forward to seeing more…
Really enjoy when you put your knowledge and problem solving skills to work on a project 😊 you inspire your followers to get up and get going on our projects! Much respect ✊
Thanks Tony, as always that’s very kind of you!
Wow Kim you tore into that one fast, I do hope you can remember how it all goes back together. Great video and looking forward to following the repair/restoration and rebuild.
I hope you show the stages of cleaning and reassembling it. Looks pretty interesting... Thumbs Up!
Hi Gary, I will do. I won’t do too much on it though. Nobody wants to see me cleaning for days on end.
Great little machines. The boatmen used to use them on the Isle of Wight (at Sandown Bay and Seagrove Bay) to haul the hire boats up the beach at the end of the day. That would have been in the sixties and early seventies. I guess most of those would have suffered from rust badly because of the salt, and the sand would have worn the tracks badly.
So sad the damage it would’ve done to them 🥲
"it cant be stuck if its a liquid" the dubious joys of stuck bolts! I'll look forward to the next one
Great project, I restored a mg40 some years ago. We don't have many of the mg2 in Australia.👍
Do you still have it?
@@CalamityKim1 no, I ran out of work for it. Thanks for asking.
As a 14/15 year old kid living on a farm I used to drive one of these Ransome crawlers shimming cabbages and cauliflowers. It never misswd a beat but my word did it drink petrol, I was forever walking across the field beck to the farm with a gerry can. Happy days.
Solid little machine ! it’s always nice to have some thin spanners ! never throw one away, they can be converted into all sorts of shapes and sizes.
Too true. As a carpenter, I hang onto the weird flat metal spanners provided with sliding door hardware; and some other odd bits of installation hardware. They have saved me road trips and work time, more than once. When I have a surplus, they can go to apprentices or other tradesmen, at need.
No doubt when you're finished it will perform better than new! Can't wait to see it! Thanks for sharing, Kim! Keep up the great work! 😎 🔩⚙️🔧
I noticed you use your hands as a hammer! It's not good Kim, I've done it for years and now suffer the consequences, painfull! Try to get in the habit of using soft hammers for that job, I wish I had.
I'm looking forward to following this restoration, I remember watching one in my childhood 50yrs ago and thinking what a hoot it would have been to drive.
nice to see the channel has grown to the point companies want to work with Kim .. and it's defo bucket hat season
Isn’t it nice! Nice to keep products relevant I think.
I'll follow with interest my Dad rebuilt one in the eighties he had trouble sourcing track rubbers and with the Magneto but once he sorted that out it gave him 20years of trouble free use.
You can get rubbers easily now. There’s a guy that sells parts for them. Not everything is so easy to source however.
Looking forward to see the next one, nice bit of old machinery 👍
Wow, what a beauty. Friends of ours had one of these on their farm in the 60s. As kids, we’d spend hours playing “tanks” around the paddock. I never knew what sort of machine it was until now.
I have driven a replica of this Ransomes Crawler in Iraq back in the 1980s, diesel powered instead, attached to it various farming implements - Fun! - but never trouble-free.
Thanks for sharing this video with us.
Old toys like that are so much fun to work on and so rewarding when finished
Good luck with the process ❤
Great vid as always, the market gardeners here in the vale of Evesham championed them. They had alsorts of implements for them, mostly made by local blacksmiths.
Great video Kim, looking forward to further videos on this little crawler. 👍
Now that is the most interesting little dozer I've ever seen have an excellent day
Great video Kim. I've always been a fan of the Ransomes Crawler - there's some quality engineering on them. Your video took me back to my full "nut & bolt" restoration on my old Bobcat 371.... Happy Days 😊 thanks - keep up the good work 👏
Great video. Know nothing about these machines but it seems superbly engineered. Look forward to seeing your rebuild.
Well done Kim , the crawler looks a great project. No messing starting on the strip down . Looking forward to the rest of the installments. Great video 👍🔧🔧
What a great job , no messing straight in , looking forward to the next video in this series WELL done Kim
Very nice job so far. I would love to see the results. I have a MG5 that has been sitting for about 40 years and you are giving me the inspiration to start working on it.
Please do it! It saddens me things sat around.
I need to finish putting my other tractor together first. I am waiting on one part coming from South Korea. Once that is finished, it’s on to the Ransom’s. It’s been sitting for a long time and may be rusted solid.
What a cute little crawler, never seen one but now I have I want one. You certainly have an impressive skill set Kim, I very much prefer watching you work than some dizzy twit dancing around in her JimJams.
Thanks Sean. I’m not one for dancing 😁
I admire you're passion and enthusiasm, look forward to seeing it running.
you are the right hand of the lord muck , good to take up your own channel !!! and almost no advertising
I’ve always like the old Ransomes stuff after picking up a multi mower with a siezed engine from an allotment followed a couple more mowers 😬. The crawler was always something that intrigued me! Looking forward to seeing how you get on 👍
They’re cute aren’t they. I stood staring at it for like half hour haha. I was so happy when I got it.
@@CalamityKim1 I wouldn’t go for cute but intriguing 🤣. I’m not really in crawlers but they do turn me head 😊
I definitely aprove of your promoting Topdon diagnostic tools, they seem to cover and find more faults than other brands and are very affordable, though I personally prefer the "topdon artidiag 600 S". Its served me well 👍
Looks to be an interesting project. The machine may be small but it's still a big job. I'm looking forward to the next vid.
Isn’t it just. It’s been hard work so far!
You got a tough job there Kim, but it's gonna be worth it as these are now very rare, was well impressed with the way you disassembled the crawler, looking forward to the next instalment.
Don’t I know it 🥲, it’s going to be time consuming but it will be nice to do it all to a good standard.
@@CalamityKim1 Hi Kim, I just noticed there is a crawler up for auction on 19/8/23 at HJ Pughs in Ledbury, it's on their online catalogue, item number 865
I’ve found having a old set of Britool sockets about are useful for getting awkward bolts out, maybe because that’s the tools they had at the time it was made. Looking forward to next episode!
You always make good videos of your projects, this will be an interesting restoration, can’t wait for the next episode now , well done, Thankyou 😊😊😊👍👍👍
Neat little piece of equipment
Brilliant bit of engineering. 😊
You are a pretty good engineer Kim,I'm not bad but you are much better and a lot prettier lol Great stuff.
Looks like a fun project.
Looks like a very interesting project!
Great job Kimberly, well wear and good luck on the rebuild👌👍🙏😎
Great video Kim 👍 mate of mine just in the process of finishing touches to his MG5 which doesn't have a PTO😕 and a different engine 🤔 just gonna share this video with him an a bit of luck another sub to your channel 👌
Thanks Bob, the more the merrier!
Awesome! I always enjoy your videos. 🎉
Oooh, Tank! 😂 What a cool machine, hope it doesn't give you too much grief.
Great entertainment Kim, that is a proper tear down. Looking forward to your progress with this project. Well done.
Great video didn’t think I would be as interested as I was looking forward to the next one! ❤
Good work on the crawler, it only looks small but when you strip it down to parts and look at the parts you think to yourself “where the f**k do all them go” a excellent magneto is the key to them starting and running right, I have just bought a 1939caterpillar r2 crawler
My literal thoughts haha. So much stuff but I have the engine in one plastic box and most of the other bits on the corner of the bench. I can start going through each part bit by bit.
Yep, too many bits for my brain to cope with. I wonder does she have a manual. It's like a meccano set now, lots of bits and many ways to get it wrong on assembly if it was me 🤔
Great work Kim. Nice, unusual project.
Can’t wait to see how this project progresses 👍
Nice project Kimberly will enjoy seeing the next ones.
Thanks Andrew 😊
Excellent video, looking forward to the rest of the series.
Exciting project! Can’t wait to see it progress!
Crikey Kim that escalated quickly 😂 I for one am looking forward to seeing how this goes. Good luck 👍
Fantastic video Kim!
Love the crawler, I have one identical makes me want to get it going too!
For that stuck bearing I’d get the hot spanner out or I would weld around the race.
Thanks Joe, you should do!
I’ll send you a message about the bearing! 😁
Excellent videoed a great job!
Enjoyed vid your best vid in my opinion defo👍
Did you like that I didn’t waffle on as much? 😁 I enjoyed doing this video but not every video can be like that.
That is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I'm not being inappropriate I meant the tractor not you Kim
But I'm not saying that you're not cute either
In an appropriate way
This has unravelled really quickly somehow
Erm......
Well done Kim 👍
Splendid video
Jolly good work there melady. I trust melod is in the kitchen baking scones for afternoon tiffin and then a lovely four course dinner?
Doffage of cap!
I was at the AEC rally with the Maltese Matador
I loved the bench getting stacked up with more and more tools😅 looks a nice little project and looking forward to seeing the rebuild 👍
I have cleared it down a bit now. It was getting so junked up. 🥲
@@CalamityKim1 a job when you need ALL the tools 😅👍
Can you tell a bit about how you keep all the parts together organized, so that you know whats what till its time to put it all together again?
Yeah! Go the crawler. Have two…
Hi Kim, Looks like you can't wait around on this one, I have in my garden a MG5 which i intend to finish off soon, I'm currently re-metaling the Track Plates as they are worn down and badly need done, Earlier Engines were i think Sturmy Archer (The Bicycle Gear People), mine is a Ransomes 600cc single, I havn't time to watch the whole episode at the mo, so will pick up on it later, Great Work you do.
Thanks Tony.
I like your handiwork and your filmmaking as well. The part of your hand you use to strike things is full of nerve endings which can accumulate damage and not show it for some time; caveat emptor.
Thanks Jim. I must stop it!