Compra-venta de maquinaria agrícola usada y nueva en Agriaffaires
The Ferguson with its draught and position control hydraulic system heralded a new era in farm mechanisation when the first TE 20 series tractors were made nearly sixty years ago in at the Standard Motor Company factory at Coventry. Although the little grey Fergie is now a collector’s item in the highly mechanised arable areas of the UK it is still making an important contribution to crop production on smallholdings in may parts of the country.
No less than sixteen different versions with petrol tvo, diesel and lamp oil engines in standard narrow and vineyard format were built during the TE 20’s ten-year production run. Harry Ferguson’s hydraulic system was so well protected by patents that there were no real competitors for his tractor until the introduction of the Fordson Dexta in The Ferguson 20 hydraulic system was the key to its success. It was the first tractor that could be used with mounted a plough and other soil working implements without the need of a depth control wheel.
Vintage Massey Ferguson is a showcase of the Barbour collection of vintage tractors. Stuart Barbour established the collection in following the restoration of his grandfather’s Massey Ferguson 35 when he was just 14 years old.
History Three-point linkage on a TE20 The model name came from Tractor, England 20 horsepower not the true power delivered but from a formula based on engine size. The TE range of Ferguson tractors was introduced in England in , following 30 years of continuous development of ‘The Ferguson System’ from The first work was to design a plough and linkage to integrate the tractor with its work in a manner that was an engineering whole.
The automatic control system is now employed by almost all tractor manufacturers worldwide. A British patent was applied for by Harry Ferguson in and granted the following year. By the early s the linkage design was finalised and is now adopted as international standard category I. Just one prototype Ferguson System tractor, known as the Ferguson Black, was built to further technical development and for demonstrating to potential manufacturers.
During the first production Ferguson tractors were built in Huddersfield , Yorkshire, by the David Brown Company. This tractor, the Ferguson Model ‘A’, incorporated Harry Ferguson’s ‘suction side’ hydraulic control system, the key to solving sensitive automatic control of three point mounted implements and patented on 5 February patent no The combination of Ferguson’s converging three point hitch, patented on 3 July patent no with his ‘suction side control’ valve is the key to the success of all subsequent Ferguson and later Massey Ferguson ‘Ferguson System’ tractors, the most important of which are the TE and TO 20 models.
It was the production of the Model ‘A’ that led in to the David Brown line of tractors. An English Ford-Ferguson in Suffolk Ford 9N Ferguson tractor at an orange orchard at Palinyewah, New South Wales , Australia During the war years the Ferguson design team developed many improvements to both tractor and implements and started to make arrangements to manufacture in the United Kingdom.
The agreement with Ford in was to include production at the Ford plant at Dagenham , Essex, but the UK Ford company would not do it. As well as allowing Ferguson to get his tractor into full production, the deal was of great benefit to Standard as the tractor would be built in its huge ‘ shadow factory ‘ which had been an aero engine plant during World War II but was now standing empty.
