fordson major tractor floating

first water test of the "tank" after the rebuild. inly a couple of leaks were found. you would not belive the noise inside the hull. The second lifeboat tractor ever built!!! http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?12854-Hayling-gets-new-lifeboat.

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[rbrtcrowther]

Right i have managed to post a link to another forum where there are pictures of the fordson near the botton of the page and on a few other pages and also a bit of information about the rebuild . The link is in the description hope this answers a few questions

[rbrtcrowther]

I have got loads of pictures but not on this computer and i'm not sure how to put them on here...

[rbrtcrowther]

Yep it's geared up through a couple of belt drives. It will motor on quite well if you have the bottle to go out deep enough and will steer with the front wheels.

[rbrtcrowther]

Yep. I worked there a couple of years ago and had the misfortune of having to rebuild this piece of history. Yes it really floats but when it's ballasted up it sit even lower than shown in this footage. We took it out to the out to the end of the emergency sewage pipe at low tide a couple of times and it plods along quite well and steers with the front wheels. roger was coming in in the duck too so it was quite an odd site seeing the two of them coming out of the sea together.

[123sheepdip]

Brilliant job.....Just as long as you can see where you're going through the smoke.

5*****

[wellusee]

Wow! Tha's a fine work of art ,well done.

[jesperyamaha]

please show us the tracktor above water. it look like so cool, thanks for good vid. jesper

[FunOnTheFarm7]

did you just use the pto for the prop?

[rthom86]

maybe you should have rebuilt the motor first

[FunOnTheFarm7]

@alcocooke yes

[keithmcgrath]

Handy for fishing,haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!