Valley Axe Man

A couple from today at Chipping Steam fair some nice tractors about

Cheers Smithy 👍👍 Gemma been back in the arena today to judge the ladies on tractors after she won it last year..... VID_20230528_132245.mp4

That's good that it's not a serious scalding... 👍

Lucky escape there Smithy.... Hope your arms not too sore... If I burn myself at work I normally rub soap on the burn area. If caught soon enough it does help the blistering.... Just promise us all on here that you'll wear your safety glasses when your cutting and grinding... We don't want to be reading you've had an eye injury next

She made it to the first day at Chipping Steam fair yesterday 🙂 to be fair looks well at side of the 804, we got caught on camera during the tractor parade by Dave Steele, but were lucky enough to be in the presence of a bit of rare gold in the shape of Ian Greenway's Marshall 100 and rarer perkins powered 954

Ahh beautiful spot Mike 👍 when we stayed down there on a farm no far off RAF Valley they were big Fergy men hence why I asked...

Anywhere near RAF Valley Mike?

Sounds like your making an ever growing list of jobs Smithy... Are your major brakes drum or the later dry disc type like on a super major? Disc type not bad to work on, not too dissimilar to the ones Nuffield used and then carried over into he Leylands.

Had a bit of help off Matt, John JMD son, he re sealed the power steering ram for me so we collected it and I've refit it and bled the steering this morning and seems a good job, it received a quick clean off and a coat of red lead, in all honesty the ram on the 804 that I replaced not long after I got it 5 years ago is still in red lead like the pto sheild so the 472 sheild got left as trademark Whitehead tractor collection and now they have matching red lead rams 😂 Cheers Matt for steering us in the right direction ( no pun intended) 😂👍

Looks like you been busy again Smithy. I'm just in the process of polishing the 804 and 472 ready for their first outing this weekend...

Couple of recent additions care of John JMD, picked up tonight whilst collecting my re sealed steering ram for the 472, that Matt resealed for me.. any how a sports ground and grounds care brochure for the 425 Nuffield, and an S series Marshall brochure... Cheers John for spotting them...👍

Bit of tractor pulling too

Me and Gemma dropped by Scampston yesterday on our way home from a weekend on the Yorkshire coast... Few tractors about at the country fair

Thing is if he beat you to it, you still know where it is... It hasn't vanished... And you'll no doubt get visiting rights to it 😉 sounds good though that she's good mechanically 👍 everything else is just metal, welding and bits of bolt on parts 👍

Bit of a surprise last night, Gemma bought me a photo book of project 22, when it's in front of you and it dawn's on you how many hours we actually put into her up at the workshop, and then makes you think how much time the concours resto guys must spend..... Nice surprise though and even though she ain't perfect, she's perfect to us to what we set out to achieve and given her a new lease of life 🙂 Just a selection of pages out the book but it does show progress pretty much all the way.... All we need now is a model of her 😉

Maybe a good job you know your way and are no stranger to a welder then Justin 😉👍

Nice little tractor there Justin. You always find something that wants fettling or tidying...but looks a good honest example and not been rotted to death in muck for the past decade.....

Cheers Justin, Thanks 👍, no that's not the end of it, if she behaves herself after a few runs out I'll paint the engine block just to finish her off, and a few minor little bits like finding a expansion bottle bracket for the rad etc but nothing that stops us from using her.. but I'm pretty sure there be the odd bit that needs addressing once she's been warm a few more times..... There is a couple of ideas being bounced about for what the next project will be to add to the collection, it'll be with a Nuffield or Leyland based but before that happens I think it'll be get the wedding sorted and out the way........Unless an absolute bargain pops up between now and then 😂😂

Thanks 👍