lets see your yard tractors

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Hi all, i have tractors on the brain at the moment. i have been fixing bits on mine and hope to pick up a suitable loader for her this afternoon. I have been looking at pics on google and just thought we may have some lovely old beasts here on arbtalk.

i will start off with my DB 880 and will upgrade the photo if the loader is sorted this arvo.

oh and one of my little ransomes crawler too.

 

Ed.

 

[John Wilson]

Whats that little blue thing it looks mint!

[Buzz]

That's a very early mini skid lol

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the blue crawler is a 1954 Ransomes MG5. my late father and i had her restored this year hence the excellent paint work.

many moons ago when i was a small child i took the head off the engine and thats how she remained for 18 years most of which was spent outside so she looked like this.

 

a very nice old boy near me has done a few of these so he did it for beer money.

Engine was a rare diesel actually made by stihl but i buggered it up when i left it dismantled. she now has a petrol engine, hand crank etc.

[Arran Woodfuels]

 

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nice pics, how have you got the chipper and the grab on the 3 point linkage?

[Arran Woodfuels]

The crane is mounted on the tractor 3-pt linkage as normal. We had to modify the A-frame a bit to clear the PTO shaft and weld on new brackets for the chipper. The chipper 3-pt linkage set-up was modified to suit the new crane brackets.

 

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Good work. thank you.

[Simon Rotheram]

My old beast -- would pull anything, even my 7.5 tonner fully loaded with chip and bedded in up to the axles in mud....sideways!!

 

I sold it on ebay to a guy from Poland.

[David Humphries]

Our little fella, be lost without it.

 

 

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Edited November 25, 2008 by Monkey-D