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Major Grader
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:20 pm
by Super Major
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:32 pm
by Bensdexta
Mean looking beast
Is it twin-engined?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:35 pm
by Super Major
I think I have the original engine, it says 4 cylinders, but in the closed part of the bonnet, I think there's a hydraulic pump and oil tank (I'm not very sure though)
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:04 pm
by Bensdexta
Your Italian is better than mine!
Looks like it's for sale?
I wonder how much it will sell for?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:12 pm
by Super Major
One is on sale at 5000 euros, the other does not say, but if you notify me, I passed close by this morning and I forgot to go and see
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:27 pm
by Bensdexta
Do you think it was converted to a grader in Italy?
Were many Majors sold in Italy? UK built, not Ebros?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:40 pm
by henk
The headlights are the same as yours Super Major.
Nice machine.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:08 am
by Super Major
There were outfitters here in Italy that modify Fordson Major (and other brands) and there was Selene who mounted the double traction.
The headlights look like those of my own, but are not exactly equal
I do not know how many were sold in Italy, but in the 60s were common
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:17 pm
by essex pete
Interesting conversion, never seen anthing like. Looks like they could go to work.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:37 pm
by Dandy Dave
Kind of reminds me of a Huber Road maintainer. I ran a TO-30 Ferguson one time with a grader attachment. It had all the road grader features. Long frame, Tilting front wheels. side shift blade. ect. I bet a Major fitted with this attachment, As we say back here in the States, would be the Cats rear end....
I have a Caterpillar Model 12 which is petrol powered. Only 52 were built this way. Mine is the 17th one off of the production line. Thousands were built with the Diesel engine, but only a handful were gasoline powered, and all before WWII. Dandy Dave!
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:27 am
by The Swanndri Guy
Looks like a Aveling-Barford "RM" maintenance grader, so I guess it would have been a UK conversion? LWB was standard practice for grader conversions from tractors. Are there any pictures of P.6 powered E27N Fordson grader conversions out there?
TSG.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:07 pm
by Kav
Hi everybody, In Australia, Malcolm Moore built a lot of E27N Fordson graders. The belt pulley was live on them which worked the controls. There were also a lot of McCormack- International Graders based on the W6 tractors. They had Dual 24 inch wheels on the back. Chamberlain was the most modern tractor-grader with full Hydraulic Control. Best regards - Michael.