Name/TitleE27N Fordson Major Tractor
About this objectA Fordson Major tractor, painted blue with red rubber-tyred wheels. It has a 4-cylinder engine, and was used at Wyverstone (26/06/1985 JS). The following is a list of work done by the tractor (and loader), as supplied by the donor:
Muck filling
Sugar beet loading, approx. 1200 tons per season.
Digging silage pits.
Building silage clamps.
Digging a corn pit.
Digging up tree stumps.
Lifting trees and heavy pieces of wood.
Cleaning mud out of a stream.
Snow ploughing (1962).
Clearing snow drifts.
Carrying dead animals (cows).
Lifting machinery in and out of lorries and holding up machines whilst being repaired.
Lifting sacks of corn with chain and ring when they were dropped from a bagger combine.
Lifting cars off the Boys Grave.
Pulling fencing posts out of ground.
Levelling stones on farm roads.
Building muck heaps.
Shovelling loose corn.
Stacking sacks of corn in barn.
Date Madec.1948
Inscription and MarksStamped on Engine Block:
E27N 6015
FORDSON M4N
Stamped on Front:
Fordson Major (1948)
MeasurementsTotal Length (including bucket attachment): 16 feet 8 inches
Rear Track: 6 feet
Height: 8 feet 2 inches
Object numberSTMEA:A.7679
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)
