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So, a few weeks ago my bro was offered a look at an 'old tractor' by an old girl down the road from his in-laws. We decided to wander out for a look.
Story goes: This joker's family acquired the tractor at some sage. Whether from new or not I'm not entirely sure. It wasn't too old either way.
He married in 1941 and a quarter acre section was fenced off or him and his bride, and they built a house. The tractor became his, and it was run on the farm until his death ~2 years ago.
His daughter that lives in Palmy recently decided it was time to put the house on the market, so that's where we came in.
We scooted out to bulls to the old cottage, residing in the shed in all it's splendor was the tractor.
Also out in the paddock was a trailer made from Totara posts. It's main function was to carry a Bamford stationary engine which powered the ome made sawbench that was also mounted to the trailer.
We offered a sum to the woman and ended up with the tractor and the bamford.
Fired it up after some fettling, whacked it on the trailer, then took it back to my lockup.
Came with all the handbooks, papers, and even the certificate of registration when it was registered for use on the road in 1946!
Yesterday I decided to bring it home give it a bit of a degrease, and start replacing the exhaust manifold, which has hole all over it plugged with self tapping screws and various random brass fittings and small cutouts from a sheet of tin.
Got halfway home and it started running like balls and stopped. Seems the float isn't closing and floods tthe poor thing. other than that and the noise caused by the knackered manifold it runs like a champ!
Being a really early B, it has no electrics, aside from the Magneto ignition. No battery, no generator, no lights, no instruments. Crank starting only is pretty lol when it floods itself!
It's pretty tiny. about 2/3 the size of a Massey Ferguson 35, which are smaall tractors to begin with.
Apologies for pooz camera phone pics (and lack of barnfind pics...) as I was rushing to get it in the shed before a massive rain downpour.
Plans are: new manifold, then kingpin bushes, perhaps some new rear tyres, and a paintjob.
the bamford engine's trailer was shot, so once that as home My bro tore it off there, and mounted it on a couple of wooden skids. Fuel flush, cleaned up the sparkplug, filled the cooling system with water, couple cranks and off she went.
this thing's form the mid 40s. Stationary engines like this used to be used for electricity generation running shearing plants and dairy sheds, everything. It's a shame more didn't survive in nz because they're really fun to mess with. This one's a 2-1/4 Hp @ 1000rpm flat out EG2 model.
We're selling this, sadly, as we've no real desire to keep it (if it were a diesel i would) and would rather a collector or enthusiast had it. It's got all the handbooks with it too.
Will update as stuf gets done!
it's a pretty sweet little machine. I probably wont do a hell of a lot on it (I don't spend enough time on the projects I've already got) so in the long term it'll live at my bro's place.
Should be a sweet little artefact to accompany our Austin truck, when we collect and restore that.
Thanks for reading!