En Fo front wheel weights..

MarB

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At long last I lucked out locating a pair of correct front wheel weights for my Fordson Major . Best part was they were only 60 miles away. The owner found them under hay and chaf in his old barn & advertised them on Marketplace in Facebook. They have the En Fo stamp on the inside face. I had to make up the 8 mount bolts using heavy flat washers welded to the underside of the bolt head then pattern the flat washers to fit the slotted holes where the bolt heads reside in the weights .. I,ll post a picture.
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This post was edited by MarB on 07/06/2021 at 04:55 pm.
 
How about the solid cast front wheels then? I learned never to take them off when changing tyres and to keep the front wheel bearings greased and adjusted.

Never got a lot of bearing trouble with those old girls but when the X Series came out, with no grease nipples on the hubs, we changed bearings at the first 50 hour service and then pretty regularly after that.
 
I didn't have a lot of choice in the greasing. We had a lease fleet that I got to service when they came back in. Fortunately, the owner hated the cast front wheels, so when he brought them into the states, he changed them over to stamped steel wheels with matching hubs. The tires were hard to find around here. (Looks like the one to my right in the picture hasn't been changed over yet!!)
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(quoted from post at 15:02:26 07/07/21) I didn't have a lot of choice in the greasing. We had a lease fleet that I got to service when they came back in. Fortunately, the owner hated the cast front wheels, so when he brought them into the states, he changed them over to stamped steel wheels with matching hubs. The tires were hard to find around here. (Looks like the one to my right in the picture hasn't been changed over yet!!)
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What a great picture. Can you give any further information such as location , company , people in photo & etc..
 
Another great picture.. Can you give more info on it.. Thanks to you guys for posting..
 
Great pictures guys. I would like to ask SkipperII about his picture. It says 1965 and the Super Majors look new but North American models would have been the grayish hood and rims Super Major 5000 model for '62-'64. Just curious, thanks for posting your picture.
 
Great old picture. I worked for Vaux from June 1964 through Sept of 67, spent two years in the army, returned in 1969 through 1972.
 
The company, J. J. Wright and Sons Ltd was based in East Dereham, right in the centre of Norfolk. They sold tractors, cars and trucks and owned a number of garages in the town and in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. They started making and selling bicycles in 1888 before moving on to hire cars and motor cycles. They took the Ford agency in 1912 and also sold Austin, Morris and Standard cars as well.

Tractors in the picture include Fordson Model N, Fordson E27N and a Case LA. Some of the men in the picture were still there when I joined in 1963 and the wheeled trays were still in use. (I filled around 8 of them when I had a Doe 130 SOS completely stripped down in 1972).
 
Harve Vaux purchased used Majors through a dealership over there, shipped them to the states, we went through them, steamed, sandblasted, painted them to look like new, installed Howard rotovater gear boxes in them, and leased, sometimes sold, them for use as green pea combine pullers. When the Super Majors, then the 5000s came out, he bought them new, had them rented out in GB, by the dealership for, if I remember correctly, 100 hours, so they qualified as used tractors to avoid import taxes, then shipped them to the states. He did bring in unused ones to sell also.
 
Thanks Majorman and SkipperII for the pictures and stories. Those wheeled trays would have been handy for tasks at hand.
 
We are way off topic I know but I hope we can be forgiven as this is so interesting.

Any chance the company selling your boss the tractors was Ernest Doe and Sons, Maldon, Essex? Doe and Wrights worked together with export deals exporting tractors.

We also had a deal going with The Irish Sugar Corporation who hired a number of Super Majors from us each year to power a single row, fully mounted sugar beet harvester. The tractors went to their local assembly plant with wheels set out and no wing on the left side where the harvester lifting belts went. They then were returned at the end of the season, re-assembled as tractors and moved on. Maybe some of those you got could have been these units, they would have had around the 100 hrs on the clocks.
 
The names sound familiar, but I can't verify it. Harve, and both of his sons are gone. He would go over each fall to make arrangements for the upcoming years shipments. When they came into Seattle, they had to go to a steam cleaner for cleaning, then The Department of Agriculture would inspect them, before I could pick them up.
 
(quoted from post at 11:38:34 07/09/21) We are way off topic I know but I hope we can be forgiven as this is so interesting.

Any chance the company selling your boss the tractors was Ernest Doe and Sons, Maldon, Essex? Doe and Wrights worked together with export deals exporting tractors.

We also had a deal going with The Irish Sugar Corporation who hired a number of Super Majors from us each year to power a single row, fully mounted sugar beet harvester. The tractors went to their local assembly plant with wheels set out and no wing on the left side where the harvester lifting belts went. They then were returned at the end of the season, re-assembled as tractors and moved on. Maybe some of those you got could have been these units, they would have had around the 100 hrs on the clocks.
Off topic is fine by me.. I,ve learned much new stuff following trhis thread.. All good info well worth sharing.. Thanks ..
 
None of those are new. They have all been refurbished. We did bring in a few of the Super Major 5000 models, but not very many.
 
The picture was in front of the shop office, in Mount Vernon, Wa.. The skinny kid is me, one year out of high school, the gentleman with his
arm on me is Harve Vaux, the owner of the company, and the gentleman on the other side of the truck is Denny Dobson, a friend of Harves that
would occasionally deliver tractors for Harve. The tractors on the truck are about to head across the Cascade Mountains to Quincy
Washington, to Cedargreen Foods, for use in the pea harvest.
 
I didn't have a lot of choice in the greasing. We had a lease fleet that I got to service when they came back in. Fortunately, the owner hated the cast front wheels, so when he brought them into the states, he changed them over to stamped steel wheels with matching hubs. The tires were hard to find around here. (Looks like the one to my right in the picture hasn't been changed
 
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