2022.06.17 Tractor Pic

Puzzle: https://jigex.com/pTGHw

Roadless was the other British company who, like County, converted Fordson tractors
to half tracks, crawlers or in later years four wheel drive. Whilst County went down
the equal wheeled route, Roadless teamed up with Selene and used converted, ex-US
army, axles from GMC trucks, buying up parts from all over Europe and, after stocks
ran out, designed their own units. They also built an equal wheeled tractor, the
Roadless 115 and Roadless 120.

The crawler on the left of the picture is a Roadless J17 based on the Fordson Major
E1ADDN with rubber-jointed tracks. These tracks had no track pins as such but had
solid rubber blocks between each section, held in place by two large bolts.

They were silent when running but very dangerous when you had to split that track
to work on anything. We had a special tool kit to release the tension when we took
the bolts out but, as the tracks natural shape was to lay flat, it was quite a
struggle to get the two halves close enough together to fit the special tool, when
refitting them.

The New Performance Super Dexta with Roadless Four wheel drive is a pretty rare
tractor, there were less than 100 made and I have one just down the road from me in
our village. Great little tractor but, as with the Dexta version, they were abused
and overloaded most of their life resulting in failures of the drop box castings
between gearbox and rear axle and front dif problems.

Thanks kcm for putting this photo up as the Roadless Super Dexta belongs to a good friend of mine.
He also owns the Fordson Diesel Major with the Roadless J17 crawler tracks next to it. MJ.

Love those Fordsons

(quoted from post at 03:45:07 06/17/22) Thanks kcm for putting this photo up as the Roadless Super Dexta belongs to a good friend of mine.
He also owns the Fordson Diesel Major with the Roadless J17 crawler tracks next to it. MJ.

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I'll take credit for posting, but you can thank Majorman for the pics. Today's tractor and "Extra" pics came from ones he sent me to use here. I did a little cropping, but loved the angles. So, thanks Majorman!!