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I reassembled the engine, now with a new gasket and a lot less water. Fresh oil in the sump, it was time to put the rest on and take it for a run.
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The tractor has almost no smoke now.
This is the 1949 engine on the 1951 chassis. I put the rear cultivator bars on and moved a pallet on then which gave me the idea to make a removable frame to move things around, with a linkage to still pull a trailer.
Next step will be to run the 1949 chassis with the 1949 engine, think I’ll have to borrow the carb, mag and filter again. Heaps to do til then anyway.
This is the 1949 engine on the 1951 chassis. I put the rear cultivator bars on and moved a pallet on then which gave me the idea to make a removable frame to move things around, with a linkage to still pull a trailer.
Next step will be to run the 1949 chassis with the 1949 engine, think I’ll have to borrow the carb, mag and filter again. Heaps to do til then anyway.
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Sun’s out, must be time for more crawler work. More dead trees and another bit of stormfall chopped down. I got this nice Morris chainblock last week and thought it’d be a good addition to the tractor. It’s made pulling these branches a breeze.
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And more… this time with the crawler crawling forward and me tensioning the chain to move this big tree away from the fence line. It’s fallen and needs to be felled, but there’s an access road next to the garden and it needs to fall this way.
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If you are to pursue the tree feller thing, a) you need to find two more people (sorry!) and b) you need some spades:
www.forestry-memories.org.uk
Muir-Hill 101 4 x 4 tractors
Photograph is courtesy of Jim Christie, Crook of Devon, a former senior mechanical engineer in the F
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If you are to pursue the tree feller thing, a) you need to find two more people (sorry!) and b) you need some spades:
Muir-Hill 101 4 x 4 tractors
Photograph is courtesy of Jim Christie, Crook of Devon, a former senior mechanical engineer in the F
That’s cool. A ground anchor is a really good idea. We have somewhere between 30-50 trees of varying sizes plus a 30m shelter hedge around 6m tall, there’s a constant stream of heavy garden maintenance to contend with! The second tractor will no doubt help once it’s up and running.
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I wonder if you have seen these:
The machine looks similar to your own, just with wheels.
Ultimate Ransomes Barn Find
I have been down to Dorset this weekend to collect what must be the ultimate in Ransomes barn finds. After some brilliant detective work by my friend Anthony I visited a farm early in the year and discovered not one but three rare Ransomes MG machines. The elderly owner was not really wanting to ...
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The machine looks similar to your own, just with wheels.
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They made a few iterations. The ITW was used by BR for goods yard work. They also made machines for skimming sedation ponds and water works, dumpers, loaders, all based on the MG chassis, note the three load bearing wheels as opposed to the two on the ordinary tractors. The ITW (industrial tractor, wheeled) is rare but the implement fitted machines rarer still. I can’t see them being as fun though, the base model crawler is so versatile.
When I read that the skimmer was fitted with a Ford Crossflow I immediately thought “twin 40s”…. Says a lot about me!
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Spotted on my travels.
Also, some diesel and steam engines.
Also, some diesel and steam engines.
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Nice MG2 for sale in one of the FB groups.
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Track rubbers look good. Bit expensive but it looks in ok condition. A non-sympathetic refurb has happened at some stage… needs a North West Water sticker on it, reminds me of their colour scheme
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Track rubbers look good. Bit expensive but it looks in ok condition. A non-sympathetic refurb has happened at some stage… needs a North West Water sticker on it, reminds me of their colour scheme
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An Early (1937) MG2 Crawler, first time starter, runs, drives. Had about £800 spent on it recently. Reconditioned tracks (all new bolts, washers, rubbers) Steel flywheel (No more random cast iron flywheel breakages!) Clutch springs and seals. Exhaust system. Reconditioned carb with new sliders, jets, needle valve etc. Fan pulley. Fan guard (Not fitted) Engine is an early TB type, has a plain Ally timing cover I've never seen before and old style valve collets. Bore is excellent, valves recently (lightly) reground and timing set correctly.
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Track rubbers look good. Bit expensive but it looks in ok condition. A non-sympathetic refurb has happened at some stage… needs a North West Water sticker on it, reminds me of their colour scheme
would that colour scheme be formerly biwater
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No idea!
Moving out of home, preparing the workshop to be mothballed. Old girl getting laid-up, engine swap into the good one happening now
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Done. Always more work than you think.
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Added some chain to the bumper last night so I could go nose-in to a tree that had stormfall wedged inside the basket of branches. Too hard to pull out by hand. Worked really well. Unhitch, turn around, use the chain block to tow it to the processing area. It’s been a really rainy day today but you wouldn’t really tell, the garden looks lovely in this photo.
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Off to a show at the weekend. I found this old Amal carb, it has the exact same parts as mine but it’s a different model. I’m going to swap the bits over as they’re better - the float is in superb condition and the bowl has no cracks.
Good luck as it’s sprung the same fuel leak as last time! Two days to go and it’s on a trailer.
6ba spanner being put to use. Love using this stuff!
Good luck as it’s sprung the same fuel leak as last time! Two days to go and it’s on a trailer.
6ba spanner being put to use. Love using this stuff!
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@Dieselman 63 Looking forward to the pics 
