I've yet to have what I would classify as a proper ground up restoration. Have been trying to push lads into one but all they want is them tidied up so they can use them for work again and bring them on runs. I may start charging more. Might slow things down.
All these 500 series are giving me nightmares, too many hours fixing the steering, PTO, lift, auxiliary hydraulics and rear casting.
Big tom McBride from castleblaney Monaghan. Wrote a few songs. Ya might know him?
Oh Jesus don't talk🙈. The 590 I'm at the minute has absolutely nothin right. Needs a new pto brake, levelling box, track rods, head gasket, the whole backend Is all seized up, the quadrant the only thing working. These French tractors. Praying this one I'm looking at buying hasn't anything hidden.
Shur he's dead the best part of 3 years, never knew him even when he was alive but anytime I heard him I'd change the station.
More of a Declan Nerney man are you
Great set of tyres on that 590, looks like my cat driving. He looks like a "big Tom" cat too.
Absolutely love it. A beast of a tractor. Was lying up for a few years but from what i hear it did take little to get going again. Does take a bit of getting used to because there is a problem with the oil pressure in the gearbox where if you don't let off the clutch at a certain speed it will freeze up the transmission and you'll have to knock it on and off again to reset it, some thing with the revs too, when it warms up they do go up and down bit you'd get used to all them things. It's a great tractor, great to pull and great to drive.
That's the latest security system.
Herself is from blayney, she’d skin ya alive for spelling it wrong, they’re gas people up there. Be interesting to see the job you do on it, ever do any 600 series masseys?
Who's he, someone off your playlist ?
I dont know yet. May if I'll buy it first. Never done one on my own helped me uncle do up a 2wd 699 a while back. Have me eyes dead set on his brothers 698 when ever he goes to sell it which will probably be the first.
Whatever about Big Tom, is it too much to hope that his brother was called Big Willy?
May ask again. Know 2 brothers and a father named Willy, Mickey and Dick. Something funny about the name of the place they're from. Can't remember it tho.Whatever about Big Tom, is it too much to hope that his brother was called Big Willy?
Well that one in fixing at the minute has the 2 door cab and is a French built one and there's that much rust on the cab every time you go over a bump you're destroyed with a shower of rust from god knows where in the cab.
What's the moral of the story
Don’t take a loan of ur father in-laws’ tractor???
Not MF's finest hour.
It's called the Italian tune-up
😂. Know fella that done something similar with an 8011 Crystal. Bought it off a fella that only used to do or light work around the yard and within the first week of having it he decided to go ploughing with it. Well it wasn't 3 hours I'd say till it seized up on him.
