I found a Forgotten Ferguson Tractor! Will it start?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2020
- Hello Everyone,
Back when I was in America, I stumbled upon this beauty, sat forgotten about in a shed, and of course my first instinct was, can I get it to start?
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Tractor: Sits in barn
Lawrie: MY PRECIOUS
5:26 was probably the calmest reaction to a Wasp Nest I've ever seen.
Sits for 5 years battery still good. Tractor walks on water, it's a miracle!
Love the respect for the tractor, pulls it from its hiding place and then bend down and says hello like talking to puppy
I love how Lawrie treats these vehicles like a pet. The enthusiastic "Hello" says everything.
I'm more excited to see something like this than a pet 😂
@@lmm to be honest, I could agree with you on that
It’s got some power in the battery, it’s got a plough on the back, it’s the summer looking at the trees it’s summer and the inside of the shed was free of brambles I would guess it’s only been in there since last autumn or early spring and not years
Actualyyyy, fergusons are prety easy to start, even with a low battery, i guess that a year or 2 is possible, but i'm completly agreed with you that it's not for years
Yea, grass and weeds come up pretty quick in that part of the US. I'll assume probably about a year and a half it's sat. Still a good amount of time not running for something with an engine.
i love hearing the gun fire in the background...
It's Merika....
Its the battle of the toiletroll going on in the backround! Tragic event at a wallmart in 'Murica at the time of filming. Many toiletrolls where harmed in the making of this video, indirectly! :O
Got an issue with it?
I think this is stage. Not only due to the other comments stating thing like the tyre conditions, the battery being able to start after years and the fuel would have gone bad by then but also at 2:18 there are fresh tyre tracks in the grass going straight up and in to the barn.
I noticed the tracks to.
I think it was staged but from experience the Ferguson tractors tend to start if left many months or years if jump started probably because they have no complex electrics.
This tractor hasn’t been parked very long.
Yea thats what I was thinking, no way a battery thats been sitting years would still turn the engine over and the gas would almost certainly be bad. Cosmetically the tractor also looked too nice to have been sitting that long. My guess would be one year tops.
Still got air in the tyres too and they aren’t too cracked at all
It’s got fresh mud on the tires
these old tractors will eat up bad gas. we use my old Ford 8N to get rid of bad gas. just keep up wit the oil, it'll be fine.
Perhaps...but entertaining and brings a smile which is what his channel is all about
2nd time Lawrie has used a tractor to rescue a tractor
I love the will it start content of these videos. I love the respect you have for these old vehicles.That is a cracking old tractor find. It’s a real old gem. It was great to hear her starting.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Wow. I love your will it starts. It’s amazing what you can find hidden in places like that
This guy reminds me of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips.
My BIL has one of those (1848 Fergie) in Canada up in the mountains of BC. It's been running all it's life and is still going srtong. I even had a chance to drive it mowing his meadow! Great little beast~
They're lovely little things!
Hasn't been a very long time but this is just how fergies are found . Loyal . they will wait patiently until needed again
Hey lawrie thank you for making these videos they been keeping my mind off the news
When you towed it out I had a moment of envisioning that moldboard meeting the radiator of the other tractor. Mostly because my brother and father managed that trick once - had a AC D17 diesel that had a bad electrical system so had to be coast/pull started. My brother stalled it on level ground. My father, in his usual hurry, decides to pull start it with the AC 180 but doesn't take the large round bale fork off that first. My brother wasn't quite fast enough on the clutch and brakes when the D17 fired up. The point did, at least, stop just short of the fan.
Love these will it run videos that have been popping up lately! great content Lawrie jayemm sent me here! keep up the good work
I one day hope to be able to spend time with my hobbies with the same excitement Lawrie has at 1:55
Looks pretty intact. You've got a good one there.
I loved my 55 T-035! Great tractor. Sold it for more than I paid for it
I wish you could have been with my brother and I when we retrieved a DB30-D from a shed in Cliffe, North Yorkshire. I should really say, "The remains of a 30-D". It was the "Crop Master" style tractor complete with horseshoe scuttle panel and bench seat.
Anyway, this shed was to say the least, fragile, and we had weakened the structure by hacking out the old "Botry Bush" that had grown through the tractor's steering gear and out through the tiled roof of the shed (it was a brick built shed). I was 'Muggins' on the dead tractor inside the shed, my brother was sitting pretty on his "Super Crop Master" outside the shed. As he pulled forward, my tractor lurched sideways as one wheel was stuck. It broke free, but now put my tractor on the wrong trajectory! - I was heading straight for the sun (cue Thunderbirds music). As we moved forward, I tried my best to haul the steering wheel round to get back on course. The tractor's front end emerged from the shed, but that lurch had put the left rear wheel onto a collision course with the shed's door frame (more Thunderbirds music), and as the tractor came out through the opening, it pulled out the remains of the door frame. As it did so, there was nothing left to support the wooden lintel over the doorway. It collapsed onto the ground, followed by the brick gable. Now, with nothing to support it, the roof first sagged, then fell in, followed by the side walls.
Now, I didn't really dare to look, but as we pulled forward, there was a definite rumble of falling bricks, and a cloud of dust and crap which enveloped the tractors. As the dust settled, I looked back to see a pile of rubble, and a great deal of ivy where the shed used to be. - Just think "Laurel & Hardy" - You won't be far off!
We apologised to the shed's owner, for the destruction, and he gave us back a tenner off the price we'd paid for the tractor and said "That's alright, you've just saved me £50 on the demolition. . All I have to do now is shovel it up"!
Ah, a Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1981 - Happy days.
That has not been sitting " many, many years " As much as I like you and your enthusiasm, I'm going to have to call, "bullshit" on that statement. Many, many months.....maybe? Entertaining video nonetheless. Thanks
So many questions. Did the owner drive it into the shed a few months before. It looks like it's not been stood up for long.
Rescuing old vehicles are fun but i didn't do now i get the feeling
Love coming across old stuff that's been parked up and left.
Fun video! This might have sat for a year or two tops. I bought a 52 Ford 8N that sat in a shed not running for at least 5-6 years and the old battery was leaking acid (I brought a new battery), points needed filed, and starting fluid needed to be sprayed into the carb. Even then, only one cylinder would fire at a time until they all finally fired. After about 20 minutes she was purring, but it took a bit more work initially. I love seeing these old tractors given new life. :)
I think it was a little over a year, but the owner had legitimately forgotten it was there!
Doesn't look too forgotten, it's super clean! Lovely wee tractor
plastic brambles available as video prop, "If you go down to the woods today,you are going to get a big suprise in because to days the day that the teddy bears make a mess,and you could get on the sole of your boots"! Come on,please no more fairy tales!!
Great video. Loved it when it turned over for the first time
What a find! Cute little tractor
It sure is!
That was glorious
Thank you very much!
You have a great time going around finding these amazing tractors, do you get to keep them? I feel their owners may have died off and tractors are then abandoned.
Oh no, they've all got owners. This one he'd just forgot about it.
I suppose my 35 was parked up and forgot about until I bought it, as was the International.
I have an old TO 20 that sat about five years. All i done was swap battery, change gasket on fuel bowl due to leaking, fresh gas and cleaned the points fired right up.
That's pretty good going!
Lovely!
Isn't it just!
There’s an old tractor like that at Archers Ice Cream near Darlington for kids to play on. I spent many a happy hour on it. Whilst other kids were just climbing on it. I was trying to figure out how it worked and how to start it
Would have been the same as I!
That tractor is in such good shape, if the shed wasn’t literally falling down I would hesitate to call it a barn find
@10:50 in the background, upper right corner is something I'm surprised he didn't jump at immediately- it's a Fairmont Railway Motors speeder / inspection car. Looks like a larger model, possibly an S4. Go look at the speeder, Lawrie! Trains! You're going to love it. It still has the flywheel and cloth belt drive single cylinder hit and miss engine from what I can see- the single narrow radiator above the engine cylinder.
Once again a very entertaining video, keep up the good work!
Without reading any comments it looks like it's the middle of the summer the tractor is parked there in the fall and the weeds grew up over it and still little juice in the battery.
Just joined your channel and I find it fantastic watching all the tractors
"Fuel in the tank...right commence sparky sparky with adjacent battery terminals " hahaha brilliant
Great video's.
I found a 1951 TED20 in a barn here in North Wales, it is now running and is 60% restored. It hadn't been run in over 20 years.
Oh that's a proper find!
Love the Twisted Nerve whistle and the beginning
I am good at whistling 😂 glad you could find a tune in it
5:23 I love how Lawrie is getting excited ver probably the cutest tractor Ever. However he’s not realised that Behind him there is a bigger shed with more vehicles in needing a bit of Lawrie love and care
The owner knew about those. He had legitimately forgotten about this one 😂
@@lmm ah right, if I was him I would forget the others and remember the tractor. It’s so cute and lovely and addictive 😀
Great video, but this old beauty had not been tugged away in that shed for very long :)
It had been there about a year if memory serves.
Guy parked it up and forgot it was there
Love it mate.
Very cool.
Glad you enjoyed it
Howdy from the US I love the videos with the Masseys even Though I run case IH and internationals
Oh no... He's got another one 😂
Nice vid
I can't believe you found a old tractor in working condition!!!
Enjoyed that.
Awesome
Thank you!
We have a tendency to neglect our vehicles and equipment here in the USA, not all of us are raised with a sense of responsibility , so finding equipment in this manner is not uncommon here. I share your desire to rescue every machine I find, but usually don't get to do so. I'm glad this one got saved :-)
Nice one mate runs well enough mate 👍
There's a tractor in a bush next to the road in Torphichen near Edinburgh. Sometimes wondered what type it is.
I got an old gasoline massey 55 running. That was about 30 years ago. I'm sure it's still sitting up in northern Alberta. I haven't been up there since 1997 😞
When i saw the thumbnail i was like OH NO NOT THIS AGAIN HE'S FOUND ANOTHER ONE, LOL nice video guys
its alive does evil laugh fantastic hopefully it gets a new paint job
Blimey, seems I'm very early. Nice find!
1:57. The new hot song of the century
😂 😂 😂
This is some oscar tier acting
The nomination was great fully accepted
Great video
I will suggest to connect up jumper cables with Positive First and Negative last, as Negative is usually a body ground. The Positive is just one point and it could accidentally touch the wrong contact and short something out. Just a suggestion, it's what I was taught and I always do positive to positive then negative to negative. (When jumping a car at least)
and trust me you will definitely know if you've connected them backwards, I did that once and it sounded like I was welding with 2 car batteries lmao
Prior to 1960 many tractors and many cars had positive ground systems.
@@jimcrane4788 Stop making it even harder! No but what is up with ground on positive. Never head something that stupid to be real. Ow well. Rules or laws are never truly true now are they. Sigh. If I found a old tractor and the ground being positive I had found it very weird and lost trust with the designers for braking convention. Just one more reason to question expectations etc.
I've got a Ferguson tractor to 30
they are good little tractors just wish it had live hydraulic system
I love the begining😂😂 Its precicely how I would act🤣👌
Just a
Really? Call us when you hit puberty.
nice find how did you discover this one. Lovely little fergie's
hope the actual owner doesn't suddenly remember he has a tractor
He did after I said, "what's the story with the tractor in the barn down there?"
"What tractor?"
"The one over there."
"You know, I'd forgotten that was there."
My grandad restored a grey Ferguson and it would always start once jump started. I did get to drive it once at a show which he never got to see as he passed away when I was only 7 years old. Unfortunately we had to sell it when my Nan decided to downsize house. I might get another tractor to play with and a very big Ford TW25 keeps looking at me at the the New Holland dealer where I work.
What did you do with it after the video?
The spark plugs looked brand new when he was reading the oil level
The beginning is Welcome to Lawries Mind
That brought back memories of working on a pig farm in mellis easy start big battery getting cold and wet mucking out pigs at 17 was fun in 1987 things weren't so health and safety that one looks better than the grey furgy from then but if it starts he said use it if not weld up gates feed the pigs ect
Oh they'll take a beating and still go, not like today's vehicles!
You can fool people some of the time but you can't fool them all of the time !
I still use the old fergie te20 at my place.
If you like these tractors you should see the old ford N series tractors that Massey Ferguson's are modeled after.
Hi Lawrie, I really enjoy your content and have been watching alot. If you ever get the chance to come back to the US I have a few things you'd be intrested in reviewing.
Thank you very much! Oh that sounds great, drop me an email at Lawrie@lawriesmechanicalmarvels.com and let's have a chat!
This man loves his tractors ..
They are pretty fun to drive, lol.
Hi Lawrie. What app do you use to edit your visors
When I said visors I meant videos it was a typo
It sill has mud on the rear tires from the last time it was driven.
Nice
Fergusons clutchs pedals have to be released for the hydraulick to work
A pain in the arse when doing yard work lol.
I love my Valmet 361D when doing yard work because the hydraulic pump is driven by the front of the crank.
You should have gone to a heritage railway in the USA because theyre a lot different to the ones your used to
Lawrie, if you ever in upstate New York, I'll let you drive the Allis Chalmers CA I'm going to be buying and working on.
A lot of those gray Ferguson tractors were wrongly restored with red and gray Massey Ferguson colours. If anyone is interested in the inventor of the tractor see" Ferguson Family Museum" website.
You should ask if you can buy it
And restore it
Slight issue that tractor is in America and he well isn't
Nope stood for very little time even the plow is still shiny lol😂
Where did you find this one.? Look like a good one.
Parked up and forgotten about somewhere in North Carolina
Remember kids: starting a tractor while standing beside it is as deadly as cleaning a loaded gun.
No it isn't, been doing it for years. Just remember to put the tractor in gear and pull it out of gear before starting.
Still deadly the safety neutral switch might not be working
IT'S ALIVE ! 😮👏👏👏👍
He sounds like Rik Mayall from Bottom when it starts! 🤣
Soon as I saw the dizzy cap and leads I knew that would run because they're not very old at all. You did do my head in though because I can't get that whistling tune out of my head and I can't remember what its off........🤬🤬🤦♂️
Didn't look the least bit neglected, just an indication of how fast brambles grow.
I agree, just a few weeks of bramble growth. Just a quick wash and a polish and it will be concours ready!
@@neilshep50 Even the top of the gear lever was still shiny. I bet that would rust over in quite a short time so the owner wasn't far away now was he.
a friend on Lake Superior had 2 Ferguson tractors.
if it ran when it was put there with a lil carb cleaning itll fire right up
Buenas noches desde España
Podría usted subir el manual de taller del TE20
It's only sparking cos the flatter battery is taking charge from the jumper battery.
Nowterbi worryinabout.
Next time you're over here you need to look into going to the preview days at a Richie Brothers or a Yoder and Frey auction. Heavy equipment as far as the eye can see and everything has the keys in them and most of them start. Kind of a try before you buy kind of thing. Here's an example th-cam.com/video/Kq8DJe1npnI/w-d-xo.html
Yes, far too excited Lawrie! But I don't blame you at all, I'd probably be the same! :-)
I feel some appropriate music for this would've been Chuck Berry's Back in the USA.
These old tractors starts after many years of standing in a shed. I wonder if a modern tractor would
Unlikely, once the computers fail it's knackered.
whats red and gets left to rot in the barn?