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This is a slide show and video of our Society's restoration of a 1927 Fordson Model F Tractor. Hope you like it. Gatton and District Historical Society Open 1-4 pm Sundays New members welcome Freemans Road Gatton 4343 Queensland Australia
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What is the top speed ??? looks about 7MPH ?
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I'm doing a project on tractors specifically, it's interesting seeing how history has impacted our present day so much. Will be using this video to show the class, just to see it moving. Thanks
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How did you make sure the cam was hardened to withstand the forces of pushing the valves in the long run?I guess there was some heat treatment involved.
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I read the link to this in the old machinery magazine. magnificent story.
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what an amazing piece of history brought back to life
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This looks exactly like the one we have sitting in our front yard, now I'm wondering what it would take to get the old girl running again, I know the intake manifold has a fat crack in it..
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Dear Machining4speed, If you send us a letter with your return postal (or email) address we would be happy to send a copy of the restoration article I mentioned to you. Gatton and District Historical Society PO Box 390 Gatton QLD Australia 4343. If you are interested in the (excellent) magazine which published it search online for "The Old Machinery Magazine"
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Thanks very much. Glad you appreciate it.
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Oh wow that is excellent! It's not often you find one from the original owners, that's very special; excellent!
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Thanks for the info. Yes, we are aware of the "aftermarket guard/fender situation" plus our machine has lots of patent info on the dash. We (luckily) know the tractor's origins via sales order/receipts from the original owners so we are pretty confident of the old girls birth year.
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PS: I was looking at your video and pausing it; it should be noted that the "factory" fenders were not available until 1923, since you appear to have them with the dash supports, that would suggest it's a 23-28. However, if that were the case then it should have patent numbers on the dash and a vin on the block (right side of the block, just above the first [front] manifold stud). Many of these machines have been mixed and matched over the years, so it could be that it's a mutt; also common.
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You're correct;not uncommon. If there's no patent numbers on the dash, it's likely between a 1918 and a 1920. Sometimes you can find a casting number buried on it somewhere, usually the casting number will simply be a date-stamp which will get you close. I'm sure you can register it anyway, at least it's a survivor thanks to your hard work! I'm not in Australia, though I'd like to go there someday. I'm in the finger-lakes region of NY, USA. There's a video of my original 1924 on my channel.
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Thanks very much for your comments. We have looked everywhere on the old girl's engine block but can't find a serial number (apparently this isn't unheard of for old Fordsons) so don't know if we can register it on the register - we'll look into it. If you are in Australia you may want to track down the April/May edition (Issue 166) of The Old Machinery Magazine which contains a story providing more details of the restoration.
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My hat is off to you folks! I have three Fordsons and couldn't be more proud to see preservationists putting this amount of work into save a machine; very well done. If you check the Ford Fordson Collector's association website, they're developing a registry of surviving Ford / Fordson tractors.
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Thank you so much for letting me know. I will try and buy it online.
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Thanks Gordon. I have also posted 3 other videos of some of our engines. if you search GDHSVideos you should find them.
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Catharine. Thank you for your comments. There will be an article on this restoration published in the next issue (April/May) of TOMM (The Old Machinery Magazine) in which your brother Roy features heavily.
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Margaret. Thank you for your comments. There will be an article on this restoration published in the next issue (April/May) of TOMM (The Old Machinery Magazine) in which your brother Roy features heavily.
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Very good work Roy and the rest of the guys at Gatton Society. I will come again one day to check out the rest of the village.
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AMAZING RESTORATION DEAR BROTHER ROY AND FRIENDS, VERY PROUD OF YOU ALL GREAT WORK ALL ,AT GATTON .HOPE TO VISIT ONE DAY.