ploughmyfield.com

Your site has been an inspiration and true motivator for me for the last
twelve months. I have a TEF of which at least the steering column is
1953. My engine is good, at least it starts, has good pressure and
smokes marginally less than the driver. The back end was less good, the
hydraulics at there on pace, and to their own agenda and the brakes have
long since lost any intention of doing anything useful. As my land is
fairly hilly, this has hugely restricted the usefulness of the tractor.

Hence I have started at the other end to you. The backend is in pieces
and being subjected to the shotblaster and/or wire brush on a piece by
piece basis. I did the wheels first as I needed a quick fillip; they
make a huge difference to how a rusty tractor looks and goes some way to
distracting the wife’s glance away from the hole in the bank balance
caused by this impulse buy.

I hope to have her running again by mid summer so that I can go some way
to doing much of the work I promised on the day that it turned up on the
back of a trailer.

I donated a tenner which woefully inadequate for the services that you
have provided: your site has cheered me, and provided greater solace,
than the three pints that this sum could otherwise have purchased.

Don’t get despondent because of your timing issue. If you know that
your engine is in excellent condition, and it looks fantastic too, then
some relatively ‘minor’ tweaking is a small price to pay for the pride
and general feeling of well being that you have every right to feel when
flying down the road in fourth gear with the wind in your hair and the
gentle burple of your engine as a glorious soundtrack.

All the best

Geoff