My Dream Tractor 2

Majorman · Aug 12, 2023

County Super 6. I have been lucky enough to drive these in work and to service them during my time in the dealership. There are few things that cause a buzz than climbing into that Rest-O-Ride seat and looking over that long bonnet between those large wheels. Beautiful Ford six cylinder diesel, so smooth and powerful.
County Super 6

Bob Bancroft · Aug 12, 2023

In the very early 70's I was new at a dealership, and was sent to New Holland service school, in New Holland PA. (Not far for us here in central NY.) They had a combine there with a Dorset diesel. (If my spelling is correct) It was a nice sounding engine. There were several NH combines in our area, but all were gasoline.

Majorman · Aug 12, 2023

I never knew the names of the engines Ford built, we always knew them as 590E's or the later ones 2701, 2703, 2704, 2711, 2713, 2714, 2715. All good engines and used in many different machines, as you say, combines being one. I always wish that Ford had used some of those engines in the early 5000 instead of the rubbish one they did use that gave us tons of trouble from 1965 to 1968.

SkipperII · Aug 12, 2023

Other than the engine balancers, and the self sealing antifreeze they came with, I don't remember the 5000 engines being a problem. Maybe they kept those on your side of the pond.

cdmn · Aug 12, 2023

You can have a Fordson Major Six

Part Time Pete · Aug 12, 2023

Were those the early one's Major Man? There were two farmers that I worked for as a kid that had them. One of them had two selecto-speeds, and the other had two 8 speeds - they were super reliable.

Majorman · Aug 12, 2023

We had cranks, balancers, pistons, head gaskets, injection pumps, hard spots in bores so they would not run in and burnt oil, no power a Super Major would outpull them and if you went out to demonstrate beside a 4000, you had to nobble the 4000 as it would out perform the 5000.

I won't mention the hydraulics other than one tractor I worked on, I had to have the lift off 32 times in a month. Fords eventually took it back and put a whole new backend on it from the back of the gearbox, was never another problem. After 1968 it was a different tractor but it lost us a lot of sales to the Red Giants and it took some years to get them back. When I went on a hydraulics course at Boreham in 1966, I got a 98% pass in the written exam and I had had as much experience on the lifts as the instructor. :0)

Majorman · Aug 12, 2023

Yes, 1963 to 1965, it was based on the Fordson Super Major (Fordson 5000 in the US). Tractor data has the information all wrong about horsepower and they never had a live PTO, it was a special 13 sintered bronze clutch.

Majorman · Aug 12, 2023

I built one for a friend once. ;0)

560Dennis · Aug 13, 2023

Neighbor had one of those for awhile.

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