Ploughing with two Ferguson TEF 20's

My brother and my father ploughing with two Ferguson TEF 20's and Ferguson twin semi digger ploughs in preparation for planting Jersey Royal potatoes several years ago. They used to plough about 30 acres a year with these tractors and ploughs, until four or five years ago . The tractors and ploughs are still in use today but potatoes are grown only for the local market and alot of the farm is now in grass for making haylage, so the acreage ploughed each year has reduced a fair amount.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Ferguson
• TEF
• 20's
• ploughing

[crumyards]

What part of the world are you in ,I am going to guess Ireland,I have been in canada for 30 years,but I still miss Scotland.My dream hobby tractor would be a 35x multipower,matched to a mf 20 baler,they have never heard of either over here, I remember drooling over them at various shows when I was a boy,clutching my bag of leaflets and showing them to my dad to no avail.

[Wildrover434]

@crumyards We are in the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, famous for its cows and Jersey Royal Potatoes.

[crumyards]

This is how it began for me,ploughing with a ted petrol parrafin,in the west of scotlandin the early 60 s.Now i am a contractor bc canada,just ordered a new duetz 630,computerized mayhem,somehow i do miss the wet knees.

[Wildrover434]

@crumyards Wow, I bet you could tell a few stories of your experiences over the years, how things have changed. My wife and me started farming on our own in 1988 allcows, we bought a 2nd hand petrol Fergy and my brother gave me a plough like this but shorter, it used to bung up when ploughing in grass, I used to get through some petrol too. Things got much easier when I bought the 4wd Zetor and Lemkin 3 furrow plough in 1999. Trouble is we had to give up shortly after because our landlord died.

[TartanTEF20]

Nice vid!!!

We've got a TEF thats currently under restoration but she should be going within the next 2 weeks!!!!!

[Wildrover434]

Thanks for your comment and good luck with your TEF, may be you could put a vid of it on when its finished, it would be great to see!!!

[longlakeshore]

These look like the "Scotch" plows which Louis Bromfield wrote about in Malabar Farm in 1947. He promoted their use because instead of turning soil so organic matter is buried, it is mixed almost vertically. He lamented that they were not marketed in the States at the time.

[magna59]

Great vid..........it looks oddly timeless.......sort of 1950 on !

[bofts]

NIce tractors

[Tractorman82]

Nice to see these old girls working! The first tractor I ever drove! I grew up with 3 of these but sadly they were destroyed in a fire, it was the saddest day of my life.

[John4700Deere]

Great Video

[bleeditout999]

nice video. its always nice to see them working..im 15 and just finished restoring a tef (great grandads). i will post a vid when the weather nicens up..im after a banana loader for it. i think theyre great (they look good in your other video) but the tractor also had banana loader brackets on when i got it out of the shed, so trying to complete it