nptimber

Unipower g type

Nice little Sunday morning job wind blown ash stuck against another tree , not long before it would have fell into a garden . Quickly sorted with the major with Boughton winch pulled into owners field to be cut up for firewood . At the aptly named location of Brampton Ash

this ones not fitted with power steering but its nice and light on the handlebars with the saw on the rear linkage as for selling a major with a boughton winch thats madness

Latest addition to the fleet massey ferguson 203 no brakes no bonnet Landrover air cleaner but runs the McConnell saw bench all day with no problems what more could you want for £ 750 BARGAIN !

IVECO I Vibrate Everything Comes Off

Think it's a 540 its a rear steer the Boughton winch is hydraulic its fitted on 4 pins on the chassis rails

The books are stories of round timber haulage , men mud and machines , and wood Wurlitzer Wesley all by Maurice H Sanders

Yep it's fits on quite well

My late father Brian freer helping the matador at rockingham great park 2005

Finished off job today last two loads out loaded with the faithfull bray loader w boughton winch

Maurice did several books stories of round timber haulage med mud and machines and wood Wurlitzer Wesley all contain interesting stories and pictures were published by round oak publishing try ebay or amazon

The major was new to Stewart's and lloyds steelworks at Corby and is fitted with a vaccuum exhauster which supply's the trailer braking system it was delivered in April 1960 to EW Ward of Wellingborough ford dealers as an industrial tractor flat top transmission housing ,no hydraulic lift ,just a pto wards fitted the braking system and a direct bolt on boughton single speed winch ,we have owned it from about 1980 and i have replaced the single speed boughton with a 2 speed from an international crawler ,anyone who is familiar with Maurice h sanders books on round timber haulage the book titled men ,mud and machines features my brother Jim on page 96 this is the tractor which gave him the name JIMMY THE WINCH

Complete with fordson super major with boughton winch

Matador still at work in northants

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