Unusual Fordson Super Major with winch

[Peat]

Spotted this on ebay.

 

FORDSON SUPER MAJOR COMES WITH AUTOMOWER WINCH (TRY AN OFFER) | eBay

 

[mendiplogs]

Spotted this on ebay.

 

FORDSON SUPER MAJOR COMES WITH AUTOMOWER WINCH (TRY AN OFFER) | eBay

 

 

HI PEAT been on there long time mate thanks Jon

[Marc Lewis]

Is the front tyre on backwards?

[oldwoodcutter]

Yes, the front left hand tyre ,while sitting on the seat, is on backwards.

[wicklamulla]

looks like a bug/grasshopper when ya look at it from the front.! Serious tyres/rims on the back axle.

[dreish]

Is the front tyre on backwards?

 

I think that would be the least of your worries! LOL!

[luftwaffe]

These were a conversion for highleading trees off steep ground in the 50's and 60's, hence the tower over the drivers seat to give height as winching the trees in so as not to get stuck on stumps etc, the winch was situated inthe front of the tractor, the same principal was on the grey fergie too,

[Wood wasp]

These were a conversion for highleading trees off steep ground in the 50's and 60's, hence the tower over the drivers seat to give height as winching the trees in so as not to get stuck on stumps etc, the winch was situated inthe front of the tractor, the same principal was on the grey fergie too,

 

Are you sure L? They don't look like high lead winches or towers to me

[difflock]

I ud have presumed for stringing high tension cables over plyons, dont quite know why, but that is my intuitive judgement.

And the name would sureley support this notion?

[luftwaffe]

Are you sure L? They don't look like high lead winches or towers to me

 

Well i remember as a kid going around a corner in my fathers lorry in in the passangers seat in the late 70's to see one of these parked accross the forestry road set up as a highlead winching some big larch down a steep slope, i remember chuckling to myself saying what sort of a contraption is this as it seemed pretty slow moving.