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No I’m not about to restore a Ferguson armchair or any other armchair for that matter. It’s just that I feel like I’m an armchair restorer at the moment.

My wife’s grandmother is moving house and I couldn’t let the 7 Raaco storage units that she no longer has space for go to waste, especially as they are all full of imperial nuts, bolts tools, drills etc. Oh and by the way I don’t have space for them either. So the garage has been in a state for a couple of weeks. I’m keen to get in and finish off the wiring loom for the front portion of the Lucas lighting kit. (see lighting loom post below) but it’s all just a bit of a mess. Somewhere under this lot there is a Ferguson tractor!

So I used a computer program to try some examples of changing the garage layout around. Using the computer is the fastest easiest way I know how to do this. I can also guarantee it’s all going to fit, as long as I measured it right in the first place.

New Garage layout - Will it ever look that tidy?

Once I was happy with the new layout I started work on Saturday night (wife out me baby sitting) moving thinks around. I came to using the drill to start fixing things to the wall, I pressed the button but nothing from the drill after years of faithful service. After taking it apart, (all those years of taking things apart finally paid off as this one came apart no problem) deducing it was the motor at fault, searching the internet for a replacement drill or motor, I thought I had nothing to loose by trying to fix it myself. Three hours later and two small wooden wedges to stop the magnets in the motor rotating the drill was working again and I’d saved £150 for a new drill.

With a fixed drill I had another go on Sunday and it went a lot better. I’m now half way through the move and I’ve finally found the tractor underneath everything! The drill hasn’t played up since. I must actually be OK at restoring things then.

On the armchair front It’s all to east to sit and watch tractor DVD’s at the moment with some great titles about. Currently in my player is the Tractor Restoration:Paintwork DVD by Alan Davies, Published by Old Pond Publishing.  (see review in another post) I’m waiting for the weather to get a little warmer before attempting any of the  items covered by the DVD.

My copy of Restoring a Massey Ferguson 135 DVD is on its way from www.reborntractor.net so more armchair work to put in soon. I see they have released some more snippets from the DVD on their YouTube site. I’m particularly interested in this one about brakes as it’s something I have to do on mine, hopefully this winter.