Powerful tractor with simple maintenance. It is still working. It is my favorite.

Plenty of Fordsons came here to Australia. My father’s first tractor was an E27N. We also had a Power Major for a while. The 9G Chamberlain was far ahead of the Fordson. I know of a fellow who had a fleet of Power Majors as his hay contracting tractors in the late 70s till about 1990 when he finally changed over to Ford 5000s. Those Fordsons were old when he got them and they did 10s of thousands more hours in his business. They were a tough simple reliable machine that would go forever with a minimum, and I mean minimum, amount of maintenance. I could go on. The E27N with the diesel option was the Perkins P6 which was a sweet sounding motor. Good run down on a legendary tractor. Jeff

You really must have a Major, I have 6 of them here in Wisconsin USA and love each one.

I have three Fordson Power Majors. Keeping them rolling!

Great channel. Before I moved away from farming, I grew up on Browns and Fords in Ireland. My late father had TVO Fordson E27Ns, and DB Cropmasters, a DB 25D and 880 Selectamatic, Fordson New Performance Super Majors and a 6Y Ford Force 5000. After porous block issues on the 5000, he moved onto Masseys that I never warmed to.

Great video,I pushed up silage in 1967 with a Major,I was 11 years old..The farmers son was cutting and drawing to the pit with a Super Major neither of which would have been bought new.The son still farms the same farm and still has one of the Majors..I myself had a Dexta about 1987, they were fast on the road

My father bought a new power major in 1959. I remember coming home from school and it was being delivered. Morven, Waimate, New Zealand.

Great video thanks. I drove when I was just a boy the old model N, the High Major and the new 1953 diesel Major. My grandfather owned a farm in Suffolk and I drove these tractors whilst I was still at school. The High Major had a petrol/kerosene engine. I.e you started on petrol then switched over to kerosene when the engine warmed up. Incidentally in about 1953/1954 Fordson brought out a beautiful die cast model of the 1953 Fordson Major, and just about every boy in our school had them for a Christmas present. We left Suffolk in 1956 when my parents immigrated to Australia unfortunately I have never driven a Fordson since but I still love those old tractors.

My father bought a brand new E1A Major in 1952. I can vaguely remember its arrival as a toddler. Of course in later years I learned to drive it, fond memories of the various tasks I did with it. Ploughing with the inevitable retinue of sea birds and crows feasting on the worms and insects that were turned up. It was a huge improvement over the E27N . No swingeing on a starting handle or messing around with petrol and TVO. It was always a instant starter even in cold weather as long as it had a good battery.

Nice to Here the story of the fordson majoor and the dexta. I drove whene i was youg, 10til 18years old a majoor and a dexta, and a smal one 1000 serie and a7700. Later i drove a fiat,cormick and Renault. I have work a fiwe years as a monteur by Deutz tractor. But the time when i was yong and drove a ford tractor i never forget. Thanks for this information. Greating from the netherlands.

Great tractors. Done plenty of work in their time. Would always start on a cold day.

Great video.... I am the Lucky owner with my boys age 6and 8 years, they have a super major and I have my granddad's super dexta... love them...

Around about the 3/4 1950's my Dad got off our E27N Major while ploughing and said you can take over for a while. I still recall looking back, as I moved from mudguard clinging, to sitting in the seat, to see if he had actually gone and he had. So it was me, ploughing on this smallish,flat but ugly diamond shaped, bit of land. Adjacent to a creek. I was about 7 y/o. To push the clutch in I had the stand on the pedal with both feet and pull on the steering wheel. There was always that jolt as I let!? clutch out.This was at Figtree, NSW, Australia. It was the kerosene/petrol variation.

A tractor and a quarter...and then still plus a bit !

My favorite ford

Good informative video thanks for posting

Great video 👍very interesting 👍

Excellent video as always

Majors look badass when they get a 6-cylinder engine of the same basic type from for instance a New Holland combine. Majors were used used as base for rollers, backhoes and even articulated dump trucks. As a little kid, I could always recognize the "face" of the Fordson Major and its litlle brother, the Dexta

Great interesting video. Good job!!

Still using 2 Fordson in my business here in Australia

Thanks for the information! So was more for the export market then. And not used like you would start a petter engine, but to lube the engine before starting. Great content, keep it coming👌

I learned to drive on a fotdson major at age 10 (in the early 90s). Pto driven cement mixer on the back building a shed with my father. Scrawny little ten year old arms swinging out of the steering to reverse around 90 degree corners with the cast iron front wheels was no easy task 😂

Mys got a detachable front blade and is my favort tractor with out a cab I own

Another great video did all my site work with super major 1981 belonged to my brother in law.

Started driving a power major and super major when I was 7 on a local farm where I would help all the year round, Even had time off school to drive a major on the front of a potato harvester, Several women including my mother were picking off rubbish and clods on the harvester which was a whitstead duplex,

Good video, thanks. Just to add that the power major had the throttle and instruments up under the steering wheel.

Back in the 60s and 70s my grandad had a couple chaseside loading shovels, which where built on a major. My dad often tells me about what a pig of a thing they where to drive with a full bucket on. It was still better than using a fork for the cattle pens.

The same uncle with the 50 hour MB Trac 1000, also had a pristine sales brochure for the Fordson Major. I remember how it described that the engine block was shared between all three fuel versions. The Cessna and Piper sales brochures were more interesting to me, though.

Always liked the way the Perkins diesel sounded. I spent quite a few hours on one for a couple summers. The live pto was a great improvement

My granda has a fordson power major which is paired with a 2 furrow Ransomes ts64 plough. This combination has won a few trophies at Ploughing matches in Scotland. I also learnt to plough on this tractor and plough combo.

Fordson Major was my first tractor to drive i was aged about 7 at the time

That rib round. the fuel tank - great for removing skin from your fingers once the gear leaver got a bit worn. Thumbs out on the outside of the steering wheel, otherwise you risked a soar thumb when the steering wheel spun back if a front wheel caught a rut or stone.

Great video. Good to get the timeline and the details about the various iterations of the Major. Like you I never drove one… I think that the Ford tractors of the late seventies eg the 6600 made the Major seem dated in just over a decade, just like the MF135 made the TE20 seem relatively obsolete in about the same era. Keep up the good work.

I still use a fordson for sowing, cutting and small baling lucerne. The low HP jobs. It will pull a 25 tyne scarifire or a 3m disc just at a lower speed than a 100 hp tractor.

Great video and information 🙂

I hate being negative, but the Major was a poor performer on slopes in Wales. I had a couple of frights with my Major Diesel and found a Zetor 5545 (4wd, 55hp, 5 x 2 box) which was outstanding. Lower centre of gravity and front tyres narrow enough to dig in. Needless to say I used Zetor throughout my 25 years as a farmer. Now doing Practical Farm Ideas reporting on other people's bright notions. Great job!

My dad and brothers had 1954 and 1962 super Major

Like your show ! Still use a 58 power major it was my dad he bought it new he fitted a blade to the front and the optional power assisted steering in the early sixties dad use to contract plough 500 acres plus his own 200 acresand push up rock heaps yearly after 6yrs he had the rings and bigends done a compression ring was completely missing! And funny enough it did'nt seem to make any difference in HP ! Later on he moved to the south east of Western Australia and the power major helped in landclearing mostly pushing windrows of chained mallee scrub in very dusty conditions he also had post rammer on the 3 point linkage , the engine was reringed in the early nineties, i dont know how many hours but it would be more than 10,000 i guess i recently replaced the dual clutch and replaced the radiator .The parts are quite reasonable and if your got basic mechanical skills its not hard to keep fordson major going .R

Best tractor in 60"s

I would just say the new performance looks the most modern and with thereafter and bigger front tyres is almost contemporary.

Got an e1 love it

LOL just got off mime 40 minutes before watching this

I have a Dexta lovely little tractor looking to get a power major to go along with it

Interesting but not to criticize anybody's videos i know mine are not perfect but i was always led to believe the only factory fitted perkins in e27n was the p6 the L4 was done by dealer's and sold ad kit's. Correct me if I'm wrong 😊keep up the good work ❤

They were still being built up to the 70s in Spain under the ebro name !

I have a ford 508e diesel head that is currently used as a generator. thank you

My first tractors I drive IH WD6 n A554 then I drive MF 100 series n later in early 20’s I drive Fordson Super Major with huge respect this tractor did some heavy lifting n pulling with oil been contaminated by water from crack water jacket? She just kept going for years. Many years later I drive Ford 5000, I might been IH fan but definitely like Fordson/Ford tractors unlike MF which were frustrating tractors also some of Chamberlain tractors like Loadstar.

My wife's aunt was a land army girl in Yorkshire

My brother legitimately has 6 Majors different versions like the power majors, super majors, regular major's & 4wd majors

the new major was known as the DKN

Interesting video on the majors!👍. Spotted decompression lever on a super major wile watching video from USA. My 1962 super major not got one and can’t say I’ve seen one on major hear in England. Was it just for the export market?

hi, great video.why was the air cleaner sometimes on the right of the engine but most times on the left on the fordson major, ? love these tractors grew up with them in the 60s

i owned the later ford 3000 it was not a bad tractor but the hydraulics let it down not as good as my MF 35 or my MF135

The e27n had the clutch pedal on the right,fergie pedal on the left,took a few brake slam issues now and then if you were going from one to other!!Needn't ask me how I know!!👍🤔😂

So can a super major have the cast front wheels or all super majors have the pressed rims

8N or 9N Ford.....

A great tractor but it never bet the te 20 or 35

At 5:51 why can’t you tell a Dexter from a major

Good subject, bad sound. Unfortunately.

My nabor has 5 of them hear in sweden