kcm.MN
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Majorman
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Fordson Power Major with rare (to us in England) down swept exhaust. Background is
Fordson Dexta. leaflet from around 1957 - 58.
Pressed steel wheels on the Power Major is an extra usually heavy cast unless special
order.
Fordson Dexta. leaflet from around 1957 - 58.
Pressed steel wheels on the Power Major is an extra usually heavy cast unless special
order.
Bob Bancroft
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Really?! I always wondered where the underneath exhaust came from. I assumed it was a foreign idea! We never had one. Any one I was ever around I disliked.
Also, you indicate heavy cast wheels as standard. Wouldn't they be more expensive, and more desirable than pressed steel wheels?
Also, you indicate heavy cast wheels as standard. Wouldn't they be more expensive, and more desirable than pressed steel wheels?
Majorman
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The down-swept exhaust was used in hop gardens and orchards, in cornfield there was always the chance of starting a fire. My petrol/kerosene used to have a down-swept one and was used in apple orchards locally but that soon got changed as it would glow red when being used for hard work.
As far as the wheels go the pressed steel ones were mainly on export tractors, the heavy cast ones were fitted to 98% of the tractors I used to service, when the pressed steel ones came in on the 1964 Super Majors and the Thousand series, we sold a lot of front weights to replace them.
As far as the wheels go the pressed steel ones were mainly on export tractors, the heavy cast ones were fitted to 98% of the tractors I used to service, when the pressed steel ones came in on the 1964 Super Majors and the Thousand series, we sold a lot of front weights to replace them.
Ours had the steel wheels, but had wheel weights the starter and two weights on each side. We pulled 3-16s when on the plow but it spent most of its time on the 10' JD KBA disk. I can remember disking rented ground in June, it was just getting dark and I saw my grandmother coming down the lane. I thought she was coming to pick me up as the lights on the Majors weren't really up to road work. But no she had a sandwich and a 5 gallon can of diesel. They are one tough tractor.
shaun wallace
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The 2 or 3 I have seen here in US had stamped steel rear wheels.
Of the hundreds of Majors my boss imported to the US, I can only remember three or four that came in with cast front wheels, and they got changed out soon after arrival, due to the fact that tires were hard to find for the casts. He actually contracted for some, and had them leased out in Great Britain for the minimum hours to be considered used, then imported them as used tractors to avoid some taxes.
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