SirTainly

Just home after visiting family in Leics, to find this in the field behind the house.

He looks like he's going to be a wonderful companion!

Aaand today no indicators, but the wiper magically started working 🤣

Woohoo, five minutes of work, I now have the last brake light and the front indicators working on the 785! Oxidation on the contacts was the culprit. Just the windscreen wiper to get working again (l think we put back a blown fuse last week as it was working before we started cleaning fuses).

Lots o things out last night, but I was driving home, so no photos. Did get these this morning whilst collecting one vehicle from the garage.

Another amazing model!

Good haul! Been chasing one of those MK2 Discos

Had a friend visiting today and we got a little time on the 785, and as a result we've managed to get the fuses/bulbs checked and replaced where necessary. Now we're down to one brake light, one work light (which is physically broken) and the 2 front indicators still out. All other lights are working. Admittedly we have lost the wiper, but we're getting the fuses degunked which is helping. The fluid reservoir lid was half off behind the dash so we had lots of dripping hydraulic fluid.

Picked up this on my trip into Cambers today.

A JD and an MF heading past the house today carting potatoes. No photos as we've been working in the stable.

Looking fantastic! Wish we'd had a blue sky too. 😁 Nice to see the Valtra, reminds me on the in-laws one, although that is only a T150 iirc.

Right, been out with the bar, and managed to get into high, but then once out, it falls forward again, even with nothing running. I'm thinking things are rather worn, and maybe I need to tweak the linkage. You can see the high socket isn't aligned with low when in neutral.

Further question for the hive mind, looking at the wheel bearing kits, there seem to be heavy, standard and light duty hubs, looking at the various suppliers, how do you know which ones you have?

Thanks John, I'll go and locate my bar and give it a poke, and see what happens. I have a feeling this was working when I test drove the tractor, so possibly I messed it up yesterday. If I did, the I should be able to get it fixed ☺️

Thanks, will give that a try tomorrow.

@Jack390 that will all compost up nicely 😁 Today I was actually at home for more than enough time to sleep, so took the new 785 on a shake down round the top paddocks. Problems that immediately need looking at are the wheel hub that's falling off, probably collapsed bearings, the oil being sprayed under the tinwork and the issues with gear selection. The latter of which I have partially solved by removing this (pictured) from the linkages, and can find first gear again. If anyone knows how to realign the linkages so I can move from low to high, I'd appreciate the help, high seems to have slipped forward from the neutral position.

It's arrived, so tucked it in the stable until the blackbirds are out of the workshop. Disguised the number plate as using the image elsewhere.

We've had a few coming up in the bottom field, but none quite that big!

Absolutely fantastic work! The foggy background gives a real autumnal feel.

Speedy recovery!

It has room for one! 😁

Obviously first task is new front tyres, stop the diesel leak, get all the lights to work and take it on a road run!

I now own my dream tractor, but need to get it moved up to Shropshire.

Well I'd have been longing after new ones, rather than chasing ancient ones on eBay! 😁 I think though that changes would have had to have been made years before the bankruptcy and buyout. Dad was scathing about having some of the models built via Indian intermediaries, as he said those firms were then able to build tractors which competed directly with IH offerings in other parts of the world. I've no idea how much truth there is to this though.

That's a shame, and of course it's a housing estate now. I have a memory of dad taking me in to show his colleagues his new son, but I'd have been less than 3 so it's a bit fuzzy! I do also remember drawing on ih branded paper for years as a child, dad must have brought a load home at some point for work, but then lost his job.