The Nuffield Tractor Story.
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- Discover the story of the Nuffield tractor from its original conception through to its final breath.
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Wow, what a beautiful restoration,ill relate a story if i may , in 1970 when i was born my Dad bought a farm in South America and by 1974 he had built a house on the property and we moved there, my Dad was like the guy on Green acres, he had no business farming but he just wasn't very fond of the "Rat race" so while still working as a Petroleum engineer he spent his off time farming.
When he bought the farm it came with a Nuffield tractor that was the twin of this one here,i worked on that tractor from the time i was 7 till the time i turned 18 and thats how i learned all my mechanical skills i have to this day which are plenty and have helped me on more than one ocassion (not tooting my horn, i just love mechanical things), the tractor had no brakes,no lights,no starter and i believe it never had a battery but we used it every year to plant and harvest.
Parts were very hard to come by hence the lack of basic functions,we would park it on a hill and thats how it got started every time,when i say i worked on it i dont mean it was always broken, it was one of the best tractors ive ever seen,i just meant that sometimes things would break which is natural, i remember taking the fuel injection unit out and having it rebuilt and putting it back on, i assume thats not the correct name for it but thats what they called it down there, we rebuilt the generator also and replaced a sleeve in the engine, i thought that was so neat how you could pull the sleeves out and get new ones and just drop them in.
We also had a Ford 6600, that was a killer tractor too, when i turned 18 i left the farm and came back to The States to begin my own life,my Dad has been gone for 15 years but when i saw this tractor i thought about him immediately,he would have loved this video.
That's a great story. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the Nuffield story. As I have said before I had the 10/60 with a the lamborn cab I loved this tractor as she was opened out and did around 26 miles an hour. The gearbox was well raised and kept my legs warm in winter when ploughing up here on the east Yorkshire wolds.
It was a sad day when the farmer boss sold her and gave me a Ferguson 165.
The old Nuffield was in first class condition as I used car polish on it regularly.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent video - as a youngster the Nuffield was one of my favourites along with the Fordson Major - and then the Massey 175 appeared on the scene!
That's the world of product development. Always evolving.
Every one loves a vintage tractor
Fantastic
Thanks for story😊😊😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it.
Looks like a fordson major from the front. Those old tractors are far better built and more reliable than the modern computerised plastic filled tractors they build these days.
You better believe it, its like trucks these days, they are nothing but toys, they haven't made a real work truck in quite some time, you dont need back up cameras and GPS and leather interiors and a 20 speaker sound system to have a truck for a farm,preposterous.
I worked at Bentall Simplex at the time you mentioned and an old Mate of mine painted those harvest gold Nuffield tractors, I was there 1988-90.🙂
You should pass on your memories to the man that owns the one in the video.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Nice to see The Nuffield tractors and the others . My Dad had a Morris Lorry ,and still have the 6 cyl.diesel engine and clutch and Gearbox with oil pump to lift the bin. The BMC engine very good and fuel consumption is low. Greetings😘👍👍
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the interesting story. My grandad had a nuffield 4 tvo and a nuffield 3.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great to see the Nuffield tractors ! A farmer near were I live still has a 10 60 ! Great video again !
Thanks 👍
Excellent vid 👍 thanks I've owned a universal four a 4/60 ,10/60 and a Leyland 2100 over the years they have all gone but memories remain didn't know they did a 10/90 thought that was an april fool I own a massey ferguson 1250 now a days for pleasure
Glad you enjoyed it.
Very good video i remember driving both a 460 and 1060 years ago for a neighbour at silage time they were excellent at buckraking really liked them not many left here in Ni
Thanks.👍
Great video. Don’t see to many Nuffield tractors here.
Hope you have a good Easter Sunday.
Thanks! You too!
I’ve just spent the day power washing a big yard. I was powering the washer with an old 4/65, I’ve not been kind to it over the years but it always starts.
When I was a boy in the 60s my dad had a Universal 4, then a 4.60. After that he caught the Massey bug.
Thanks for sharing.
Good review of the Nuffield tractor range , damned good draft work tractors due to their very heavy back end 💪 they were also very fast on road haulage work the hand throttle was set between 2 plates with a maximum rpm stop near the bottom but if you pushed the throttle lever sideways it would come past the stop giving the engine a very noticeable increase in RPM 😁🚀💪💪
Great memories again. Thanks.
Very interesting video!
My grandfather had a 10/65. It had a slightly longer front, and made of glassfiber. There should be a video of one here on CZcams, also from Sweden
Very interesting. I found the video. Looks like a David Brown front.
There is Mr Hornsby from Burton-on-Trent who ploughs with a six sinlinder Nuffield and three furrow Reversible in the classic Reversible class.
Does he know when the engine was fitted?
Very interesting.the 10/90 you mention would have been built by some dealers or on farm using a 6 cylinder truck engine They were not factory built
A friend had one of them long long ago, he reckoned it would do wheelies on the silage clamp. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! I've driven light trucks with the Leyland 6/98 and preferred it to the Ford, Bedford and Perkins equivalents. Those were the days!
Thanks for putting me right on this. I could find pictures of the 10/90 on the internet but no other info.
If they had introduced oil immersed brakes and a hi-lo when the Syncro was developed, they might hsve soldiered on, but the likes of the Ford 5000 won that race. Industrial relations problems at BL factories didn't help profitability either.
The Fiat 80 and 90 range, with their dry dual clutch set-up and hand clutch lever were the nearest thing to a Leyland after the Harvest Gold range disappeared.
Very true.
Anyone have problems with the thrust bearing in a 4-60 bmc diesel engine??
Newbie here asking silly questions.🙂 What is the idea of those long rear wheel hubs? I have "normal" hubs on my 1963 460. At 2:54 there is a 460 with long ones.
I'm not sure I know what you are looking at but the usual reason for longer this sort of modification is for crop clearance,
@@Casterton-Vintage I am looking at the "lump of steel" that is poking out from the center of the wheel and stands out like a sore thumb. 🤣 There are many tractors on this video that have it. Like the Universal at 0:40 The wheel track on these tractors doesn't look any wider than standard. Or is it some kind of adjustable wheel track system?
@@pasinen It is for wheel track adjustment. It is still available on some modern tractors but I hate it because it's too easy to run into things if you have a lot sticking out. It would be okay in wide open spaces but not so good in a small English village!!
@@Casterton-Vintage Thanks! This explains a lot. It's probably quite rare system here in Finland. I don't remember seeing it on Nuffields or any other brands.
@@pasinen John Deere models A, BN, G, H, MT, 60 and 4020 to name a few.
!0/90 Nuffield is a private owner's custom job like the 6cyl Fordson Majors not a standard production model.
So I understand. Thanks for the comment.
Good day from Ontario Canada Tractor vaporizing oil? What was that?
Over here the 10/60 was the real winner. 1965 u could have bought 10-60 4500 cdn
1042 did not do well over here either,
Boy the 10-60 really took off over here, we have 1 group of people drive horse & buggy, but have tractors, they were the ones who bought.. Over 10-60 got 4 furrow plough
Thanks
It's good to hear from Canada. One of my favourite places to visit.
Tractor Vaporising Oil (TVO) is similar to Aviation turbine fuel or kerosene. It was popular in the UK before Diesel took over. You would start the tractor on expensive petrol and, as soon as it was hot enough to vaporise the TVO you would switch over to the cheaper fuel. It is not made any more so people mix their own from petrol, paraffin and diesel. The other way chosen by some people is to use Avtur as motioned above. Many people will tell you that there is nothing like the smell of a tractor running on TVO. I'm always reminded of old tractors when I smell the Avtur burning at an airport 😊
@@Casterton-Vintage Thanks.
Although the Nuffields were well represented in the N of Scotland and Manuf in Bathgate, its Sad to say / see NO Scottish registered ones in the nice Vid you've made . Sadly its as good as some of the Ploughing - maybe just the wrong kind of owners / users not using them properly and showing them to best advantage - great pullers, but SOFT. Altho' a Massey / Deere Man for those same reasons, I had the chance to use other folk's Leylands - Perk3cyl was a topper on a 3-F 14" plough and the 384 could fairly handle the 5F 14" fully mounted even on steep "grund" all 2WD , you understand. - and it was their Demonstrator. what a machine ... but would it last? THink that was their trouble, QA! As for the 10/90 Never heard nor saw Brochures for it, and as for the IMT versions? Awww . a cheap Massey which also failed to please ? Some Customers can just never be pleased ! You say they had no TA, etc .... But the Hi-Lo Mech lever was an easy Clutch shift and worked on the PLough for me ,.... was that not good enough for others? _ those same folk who ranted about Multipower or not able to Bumpstart Hi-Low boxes etc.
Thanks for the interesting comments. I live down in the middle of England so don't often get to take videos of Scottish tractors. It's interesting to look deep in to a machines history and see how it evolved. Marketing is always the guiding force and creates trends that have to be followed.