Got to admit I'm quite impressed about cranking the PTO shaft to lift the hydraulic arms, never knew you could do that!

Watching your videos makes me really miss my old grey Fergies I had a diesel and a PP too restored the PP one when I was about 10 in the summer holidays. Might have to get another one day.

When I was a kid ,bout 60yrs ago, we had a Standard Vanguard car, and my dad said it was the same engine as a Massey Ferguson tractor. It did start well....😂

G’day from Oz, when I was a lot younger I worked with a couple of young Pommey blokes ; they called that spanner “Heavy Harry”. We call those discs on the plough coulter discs and they run in front of the shears to open up the furrow. Those tractors revolutionised farming in this and many other countries ; we literally went from horses to tractors with them in one step. Cheers.

You lucky man, Atkinsons, Ferguson and Massey Ferguson. All my favourite English toys. Well done. Keep it up, I watch your videos avidly. A WISHFUL YORKSHIRE PROUD ENGLISHMAN CHRIS R

Great video, as was said in a few other comments rocking the pto shaft back & forth using the spanner between the check chains has the same effect… raises the lift. It can also be used to rotate the plough cross-shaft to adjust the front furrow width if there’s no front furrow width adjustment handle fitted… Enjoy you videos and admire your tractors & shed… very tidy. Keep up the good work.

Never knew you could wind the PTO with the Fergie spanner to lift the link arms Richard, love the taco meter running off the dynamo, another great video .

Super Video Mr B. I love your old tractors.

I remember when my dad sold claas combines he had a little spanner which fit all the side panels he went to.

While lifting the 3pl with the spanner- no need to take the spanner off the pto shaft , just slip the spanner on the shaft and work it back an forward, it still looks lifts! Enjoyed the video

Thanks so much picked up both of those spanners this year, just because they were interesting, that you so much my friend. 👍👍👍✌️

Learned a few things tonight. Ferguson Homestead isn’t far from me.

Excellent video, very informative. Keep them coming. 👍👍

Fantastic video. Very interesting at the end

Rock the spanner too and fro you don’t need to turn it all the way round 👍

Brilliant video Mr B. I'm sure Harry Ferguson would be proud of what you have done, you've got a brilliant set up there pal, my family our farmers, I'm not I went in the forces, but I still go up and get stuck in with them when we're bailing, 😊

What a fabulously simple idea.

What a great educational video Mr B. Haven't seen you for a while at Joe Seels yard

Nice, and all the best from Sweden.

A genius indeed By the way I like how you done the nuts for the steering joints

Great video mr B

Cheers Mr B brilliant

great vid. I never new there was a diesel spanner.

Nice One I learned something Thanks again

We used the Ferguson spanner to take the gear lever off when it stuck in gear and you had to slide the selectors back and to to find neutral .

I used to have the petrol only one,always regret selling it when we went on diesels,they were the spitfires of agriculture.

Good video 👍

Only you could make a video about a spanner interesting. Iam a Ford man but my favourite program as a child was about grey fergy and 3 point linkage. Iam sure it was narrated by John peel

Your the tractor man Dude😊

Just came across your channel, you have some nice things. What did I use a Ferguson spanner for you ask? Well my dad had a TEA 20 and when I finally reached the age thirteen (well nearly, ha) I was sent to turn or row up a field of hay with a Blanch Lely six wheel rake. I came across a myxomatosis rabbit that was on its last legs. Not wishing to run it over with the rake I dispatched it with the only thing I had at hand, the fergy spanner, a quick bash across the back its neck and it was out of it, gone to the happy hunting ground to join its mates. Sorry but I had no other option, I had to put it out of its misery. It’s funny the things you can still recall like it was yesterday, getting on for sixty five years later. Incidently, I still have a blue/silver lapel badge with the Ferguson System tractor that one of my brothers brought back for me from the Yorkshire Show in the late fifties sometime, they were giving them away to anyone who showed an interest in the stuff they had at the stand apparently.

I recommend you to another person that is doing up a little ferguson to day keep up the good work

Love ur video

They say you learn something new everyday just asked my Dad and he did not know 👍 🇮🇲

Hello mate , interesting video , after reading the books I have about Harry Ferguson , Sir David brown , Henry Ford etc , never before have I seen one mention of The Freeman Sanders Engine Company , have you got any more info on these , be great to see it on here please , did they get absorbed into another company , like Perkins or leyland , it would be interesting to know , best regards .

Evening Mr B brilliant the video as usual👍🏼 trying to find the diesel cranked shaft Ferguson spanner is like trying to find hens teeth, I believe you don’t have to do a full rotation on the pto in order to raise the link arms I’m sure you can just rock in forth and back, not sure if you knew this if not might be worth a try faster than doing full rotations Thanks

Spot on mi old

The way the arms lifted on the back when u turned the pto would it be the same on a ferguson 35 golbelly

I have a TE20 modell 17 centimeters long with the 7 millimeter spanner in the toolbox. ( made in China of all places). The spanner is so small it's hard to pick it up with your fingers, imagine my suprise when I found out that small box opened and finding that famous spanner inside, ( it is an incerdible detailed modell.

I have an early spanner and greace gun

I used to have four little grey Fergies..... but I let them go as I had nowhere to keep them. And now I have a smallholding and no Fergy 😢..... although I do now have a Solis 26

God video her ved os er der 4 fe/mf 35 og en mf702 mvh fra danmark.😊

Good one mr b, i guess the thing we forget is there would have been shortages of steel and raw materials after the war so making common size nuts and bolts and one spanner fits all enabeld mr ferguson build and sell an affordable tractor to a large market, did you get a box of taties to come home with😊

Question: Around 04:28 I notice you have what looks to be a NOS / 1960's period looking CAV 296 type filter. Very smart indeed. I would be interested to know (if possible) where you were able to source it from? I have been looking for reference images online for that particular style but have only been able to find photos of the later filters with a black and blue stripe. I ask because I would like to design a vinyl that I can have printed to cover a modern equivalent filter I bought for a 1965 Southern Cross EFE which I am in the process of cleaning up. Many thanks.

Great video. I noticed that the bolts and nuts were a common size on my TEA20 Ferguson tractor and the plough I have with it. Very smart thinking. What does the A stand for in the TEA 20. I know the what the TE and TO stands for. And I use to know what the A stands for, but I’ve forgotten. I live in PEI, Canada. Have a great day.

All the best from. Ireland where thousands of UK s/h ferguson ended up. Could be bought for 100 quid at one time

Did you know that the T20, TVO, engine was taken from the, Standard Vanguard car originally?

Ferguson spanner used to adjust the top link

Apparently the link box uses a couple of rings off linch pins to hold the clips on

It's not a myth about using the spanner as a fuel gauge. Using the imperial measurement side. 1 inch = 1 Gallon in the tank apparently..

Great video Mate, you don't have a spare one to sell do you?.....I need one for my 1958 35 Dave North Lincs

Is this unique to the 20 or does the spanner work on the 30 and 35?

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Hi mate I’m trying to make enough money to buy a mf 65 I looking at one for 4750 have you got any suggestions to make a bit of cash at 12 years old

Hi mr B, wasn't there a mk 1 and a mk 2 engine One was very hard to start We had one of those??? Can you correct me if I'm wrong, please

Ok

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