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Fordson Major Row Crop

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My brother has this tractor undergoing restoration. Engine is finished. Has
the PTO shifter. There were very few of these around. My understanding is that
they were made for corn pickers. The front pedastal is very weak. Needed all the
bolts and threads drilled out and repaired. You wouldn't want to hit a dead furrow very hard.
Farmers used to convert them back to wide fronts.

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While they could mount a corn picker, as a whole, row crop tractors were made primarily for cultivating row crops because before herbicides there was a whole lot of cultivating to be done.
 

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These were a Roadless conversion made by Roadless Traction Limited of Hounslow, Middlesex. Roadless were one of the two companies that converted Fordson and Ford tractors to crawlers and 4WD, the other was County Commercial Cars, Fleet Hampshire.

One other company offered a conversion to row-crop for the Major, Bettinsons, Theirs was a single front wheel. Not many of either still around over here.
 
Didnt Mr and Mrs Brian Norris drive their Ford Popular from Hounslow to Surbiton?
 
lol, only on the trip home. but, let's not forget that, in his way, 'Wrong Way' Norris was right :)
 
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