49 - We Finally Moved the Old Red Tractor! & Transformation of Farmhouse Wall.
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The story of how we discovered the farm tractor began with a rumor last year. It was supposedly somewhere on the property under a fallen tree. But with the land around the house and barns so overgrown, it seemed impossible to track it down by foot or even by air with a drone. Over the months, we made a few attempts to find it, but had no luck.
Then, one day in early spring, with most of the vegetation down, Philippe was clearing out brambles and suddenly noticed a tail light on a red fender. This could only mean one thing: we had found the original red farm tractor! We needed to get a closer look, so with a bramble cutter in hand, we set out and there it was.
As most of you know, it's a McCormick F240 built in the sixties by the International Harvester Company in Saint-Dizier, a city about a 3-hour drive east of Paris. It's a diesel-powered tractor with 12 gears. Everything looks pretty good for a piece of machinery exposed to the elements for decades, but unfortunately, the front wheels are missing.
Either way, we wanted to get it out, and sharp-eyed viewers must have seen at the end of the last video: we did get it out! But with no front wheels, it wasn't an easy process. So join us as we take you through the steps of getting the tractor out!
With the tractor rescue a success, there was another task to be finished: cleaning up the stones of the old farmhouse with muriatic acid. And let me tell you, the result is stunning compared to what it was with the render on. Philippe went on to clean out the trailer because we're looking at a dumper we’d like to buy to help with the excavation work behind the barn. With the trailer unloaded of the rubbish we found around the property, we'll be able to collect the dumper.
The week came to a close with Philippe taking care of his gear and giving the old red tractor a good wash so it's ready to be worked on next week!
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It is a testament to how well built these old machines were to have survived so well for so long unsheltered from the elements and then for the wheels to turn without a great deal of fighting and stress.
A lot of credit goes to good neighbours for helping out, that to me as a city dweller is a long lost community spirit.
The house looks fantastic Phillipe, very well done indeed
Hey Scott, yes a big difference then where we lived in Belgium. Less busy busy here and will help each other.
Team work makes the dream work! It's great to see the progress on the house, the land and now the tractor with a little bit of help from friends and neighbours
Thx Steve, everything will fall into place!
Phillipe your work ethic never ceases to amaze me. You are always cleaning, fixing, repairing or doing something to your new home. And it’s so wonderful to see that you are making good friends too. It’s great people like Mike and your neighbours that help you feel you belong. Anninisa too is a great lady. She looks after Odin so well. He is a real little boy now. No more baby!
I hope you all continue to stay well and happy. All the very best.
Hey Diwondermum, everyone we have met here has been wonderful and we get loads of help. Odin is growing fast! 🤗
Look forward to these weekly updates. Odin is getting so big always wanting to help his dad. Seriously impressed with all three of you and the changes on the farm.
Thank you Martin! Odin is quite the busy toddler 😅
I love neighbours like Claude the Mechanic! not only are they resourceful and incredibly generous with their time, they add so much joy to life's adventures.
...use an old WW2 artillery cannon trailer!
Of course, why would you not!
Brilliant, absolutely!
Totally something I could see my Dutch father doing...oh the stuff he'd lug home from auctions.......and hide from my mother!!!!
Take good care of Claude, you've been blessed to have a wonderful neighbour in him.
Incidentally Claude speaks English???
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Hello Eirene, Yeah Claude is very helpful! Sometimes i feel i cant repay him enough and sometimes he doesn't let me even if i offer it. Claude speaks only French.
Dearest family. On my sofa yesterday enjoying a cold beer and watched what could possibly be the most enjoying video of you guys. I enjoyed it immensely when the tractor finally got freed. A project where my fingers itched to get dirty and pimp that machine. Such a great treasure to cherish on the estate. Oh yes, I see a big improvement every time in the quality of the videos, they get better and better every time. A feast for the eyes... you live the life like them gods they always say... I think it is true. Enjoy and so can we. Odin is blessed to grow up on such a place. His future is definitely secured. Lovely little man he is.
Hey Martin! Thx for the lovely words! We try our best for every video but sometimes it just isn't that exciting like with the tractor now 😂 Anicia is becoming a master at editing and making a story.
Well done on removing the old tractor, and the house looks beautiful. It's very satisfying watching all the progress, and everyday family life in the rural French countryside. Your videos are beautifully shot and edited. Now that I'm all caught up, I'll be looking forward to new videos each week. 🙂
Thx Chris! Hope you continue to enjoy our videos, thx for watching them all!
Congratulations. Persistence and the help of a good neighbor pays off. At this rate you will have it operational in no time at all.
Thx Kate, we hope to get it running soon. We will still have to find a mowing attachment for it.
I love how men work together. It's a dying breed. Good neighbors and I hope you can get it going
Hey Kathy, it is enjoyable when people work together 🙏
Little boy is growing so fast and learning about everything 🇬🇧🇮🇪.
Haha he sure is, he loves everything with wheels and an engine 😂
I'm absolutely surprised that the back tyres are stilling pretty good condition, good to finally see it out of the scrub,
Hahaha we too, they even had air in them 😂
So good to see the tractor out The wall's look great and lovely that you are caring for your chicken
Thx! The chicken will hopefully be fine.
Hope your chicken recovers from her injury Odin face at looking at her blue dressing very cute
Well done Team Red Tractor persistence paid off look forward to the restoration hope you raised enough to get your spare parts 👍
She is still limping but the wound has healed so hopefully it is good!
The amount we raised for the tractor is enough to get it going!
Great episode. I got a bit emotional seeing the old red tractor 'coming back home' to the barn. Many years ago we fixed up an old grey Massey Ferguson tractor that had been abandoned in woodland in the 1950's. We sold it with the farm and it's still hauling farm trailers around.
Ah good! That is what we would like for this tractor too, get it repaired and keep it going for many years to come!
A very ingenuitive approach to get the tractor out. Excellent job! Team work makes it dream work. You've got great neighbors and friends there, Philippe and Anicia.
That stone work just pops now after the acid wash. Very impressive!
What a great episode!
Hey Bryan! Yeah Claude has the most amazing things to get stuff done 😂 Yeah the muriatic acid works well on these kind of stones!
Well done to get the tractor out👍do so hope you can make it work again. Your house is reviving again with all your amazing stone work!
Thx May, we will try our best!
Great teamwork getting the tractor free, I hope the engine will still run
Hey IPC, according to Claude it will and i need to have patience 😅😉
@@DomaineSauvage Great if it does, after forty years left to rust, what amazing engineering
The good part is that the exhaust was pointing downwards so no rainwater could enter, but according to Claude it is because it has been dry and two different metals reacted together binding it. He said it took years to bind so i have to have a little bit of patience to unbind it 🤗
Your baby is so cute and adorable.
I want to see him more and more.
He makes me happy.❤
Thanks~^^
Haha, every video we try to put in a little bit of Odin since a lot of you like him very much!
That's a good north English accent from Mike.
Proper Yorkshire?
Sometimes not easy for me to understand but i am getting better at it 😅
Hurray the tractor is free! The house is looking so beautiful now. Love the transformation of your little farm. ❤
Thank you Almeda!
Great progress on the tractor. Hope it can be restored without too much trouble.
Claude is saying it should be fine so i trust his judgement! He knows these old beasts by heart.
I love,love old Tractors 🎉congratulations on your and your neighbors efforts ❤
Oh we do to, the moment we found it we wanted it freed and get it running!
Another excellent heart warming video!
Love them.
Hope the hen recovers.
Hey Graeme, we hope soo to!!
That is a Tschitti Tschitti bäng bäng story. I can't wait to see how the little red tractor is brought back to life.
Haha Nana, it sure is! We cant wait either but it will take some time.
Oh thank you for taking your girl to the vet and getting her treatment, fingers crossed she gets better
Hey Sharon, the wound is healed up but she keeps limping..
Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy, huge success, both the tractor and the stone wall 😁👍🏻
Thx Annelies!
Congratulations on finding the tractor! The farmer on the vlog"Just a Few Acres Farm" repairs old tractors and machinery for use on his farm. They are beautiful and run like new when he's finished. I wish you the same satisfaction when you get your tractor running again.
Hey Pat, will have a look i don't think i have seen that channel yet! We hope to get it running soon!
I do hope you can get the tractor running. It will be an incredible asset as you work on the land.
Hey Peggy, we should be able to get it running. We have found two donor tractors already so parts shouldn't be the problem.
Tractor : It is in a good way, as you remove the "engin-cover" (in FRA : le CAPOT moteur) add on a good tarp for rain and severely tite that the wind can't remove it.!!!!!🤔😉🙂🙂🙂
Lucky Young boy, he help "Papa"☺☺☺☺.
Bon courage and stay safe.👍👍👍👍👍
Hey jean-marie! The capot is already back on to prevent the rain from entering the injectors which i already took off 😉
@@DomaineSauvage Good we use, in aircraft industry (i'm retired from Dassault), to place a plug on any engine port, easy and preventive and ease the fixing of the engine.
Good job.
Cool! We are currently trying to free the engine little bit by little bit, according to Claude it needs time because it was dry and two metals reacted to each other binding it together. But he is sure it will turn just needs time and petroleum.
Hooray, you rescued “Sleeping Beauty “ from the brambles! I hope you are able to get the other tractor for parts so that you can get this one running. It’s a great part of the history of the farm. I’m sure the land appreciates your hard work cleaning everything. The house wall looks great too.
Hey Gayle, parts wont be a problem. The most worrisome part for me is getting then engine unseized.
Great to see the international out of the brambles, Now you need to see if the engine is locked up, The sump will have small amounts of water at the drain plug especially if the exhaust hasn’t been covered for several years, Then there is the fuel injection lines and injectors to clean and bleed the fuel system after the fuel filters have been cleaned or changed, Just take your time it’s extremely simple especially a diesel engine good luck🇬🇧🇮🇪.
Hey Michael! We have already opened up the injectors and are adding petroleum to unseize it.
What a lovely neighbor you have!
We cant complain at all. We do try to help them as much as we can too!
Suggestion... Round chicken coop perches....not square pieces of wood....the square pieces can cause bumble foot. Congratulations on the tractor. ;)
Hey Catherine, the perch is a round stick! We think she might have gotten an infection with all the glass and sharp bits we are still picking up.
Good heavens, a little moisture in my eyes seeing this rescue!
Haha Peter, it sure was a great moment to have it moving! 😅
What an achievement moving the tractor, you never disappoint.
The farmhouse is looking great, you have all achieved so much, love the land glad your family has got it.
Take care all of you love Normaxxx 😂
Thank you Norma, we think we are improving the land too 😅
Well done in extracting ‘big red🤣.’ None of you are frightened of real persistence and hard work. Phil 🇬🇧
Thx Phil, It is a small tractor but still big for us 😂
I think I worked my way thru the system of ‘go fundme’ thru pay pal. Not much but I hope it helps. Phil 🇬🇧
@@FIL357 Hey Phil, no worries we do not expect anyone to do this for us so every bit is already amazing to us!!! We choose GoFundMe because the people donating are protected, if they notice we are scamming or something they can report this and get their donation back!
As they say , where there is a will there is a way! Great idea to be able to move it. Hope you can restore it as it will be a great asset to your land. Always cheering you on in your endeavors!👏👏💓🌈🌻🐓
We are going to restore it so it is running properly, we will not be painting it as we like the "patina" it has 😅
@@DomaineSauvage When I had my tractor it had the same paint which was faded and a makeshift grill! The big rotovator I used on my garden was orange and the tractor red😂. I loved that old tractor😊❤️
Great you have such helpful neighbours 😊
Indeed, still community feeling here! 🙏
Hooray! the tractor is moved, now repair it so it works. You're a wonderful family! Glad you have neighbours that give their excellent help. Your home's rock walls are looking beautiful, lovely colors are appearing.
Thx Robin, we are in the process of repairing it slowly 😅 Yeah the neighbors are great!
Great video, the tractor is looking amazing to say how long it’s been parked outside. When I was young my grandfather bought an old tractor that hadn’t been started for 40 years, after very little work he used it regularly to drive a wood saw bench.
Really looking forward to seeing your progress 😊
Hey LL, yeah we love the "patina" the tractor has so we will be keeping that but fixing the broken bits of course!
Mike seems like a great neighbour 👍
Oh yeah, from the beginning he and his wife Lynn have helped us with many things!!
The house and grounds look wonderful. The tractor is free. The tractor, property and community have been waiting years for a family dedicated to restoration, revitalization and stalwart maintenance. So glad that you, a family capable of fulfilling such a mandate, accepted the challenge. Your journey enriches and delights those of us who are witness to it.
Thx Cool! We are getting help from the community with our projects, and we help them back where we can.
A freed tractor is an amazing achievement, well done.
I'm imagining the walls of your house all pointed, they'll look amazing. Keep on keeping on.... as Bob Dylan said. 😊
Hey Elizabeth! We are looking forward to pointing as well but it will have to wait since we want to move some windows etc.. so no point in pointing now. But we will try to prepare all the walls so when we can we can just go do it!
I think that's good forward planning. There's little value in doing a job twice. You seem to have many projects to choose from. Continue to enjoy the journey.
Congratulations on getting the tractor out--that's so exciting! I loved seeing the group effort that went into it.
Hey Melissa! Yeah everyone wanted to see it up 😂
Yea!!!! And there is that rooster, he luvs you! So glad you got the tractor out. Your dog’s ear 😔 Odin is so adorable ❤
The rooster is quite docile, which is good around Odin. Yeah June her one ear went floppy after she got some disease from a fox probably..
Its always so nice to have good neighbors. ❤
Indeed Kathy!
Love the tractor saga ... look forward to its restoration. Colorado Cherri
Thx Cherri, we look forward to it as well!
Great to see the tractor 🚜 hopefully you can repair it. Odin will love playing on it when he is older. Another busy video guys ❤❤❤
Hey Lesley! We will try our best to get it running. Odin loves everything that makes noise and has wheels 😂
I have found (possibly you already know) it takes something as small as a damaged O-ring to cause the pressure washer to lose pressure. When an o-ring is bad the pressure will not build and it seems like the machine has gone bad…
Oh yes or when they use plastic pumps they tend to crack as well ☹
I have walnut trees and many squirrels. I find nuts behind shutters, on window sills and sometimes on my cars hubcaps!😂
Haha i find nuts everywhere too, the strange thing is that i haven't seen a squirrel yet .
I admire your tenacity Phillipe, hopefully you will get many years work out of the McCormick tractor, fingers crossed with a little oil and gentle persuasion the tractor will start up.
The engine is seized but we are freeing it up!
Goed gedaan met de tractor. Eerst maar eens proberen of je de motor aan kan krijgen voordat je de voorste wielen koopt. Groeten uit Poeldijk NL.
Hey Bart, daar ben ik nu mee bezig met al een gedeeltelijk succes 😉
I think I would have spent some time and got the tractor working, get some front wheels and tyres and got the tractor started and then bought a tipping trailer for it rather than getting an old dumper which is yet another machine with an engine to maintain. You will be amazed how much use you will put a tractor and trailer to over the years, but dumpers are really only good for one thing - being a dumper!
Hey Ant, we have a tipping trailer but is it too new to go in the bush with it so we went for a dumper. The reason is we need to really get going with the excavation works now that the weather is good. But it is true it is another engine i need to look at before we can begin! The tractor will come into play once we get it going but that can take a while.
well done for getting the tractor out a good job lots of love to your lovely family
Thx Sharon!
Good job with the tractor which seemed to free up remarkably easily. And it looks promising. I hope parts and so on are easy to come by.
Hey John, we have found two donor tractors for sale close by so we should be fine for spare parts.
This is great. I had a thought you could write a really neat children’s book about the old red tractor and how happy it was that you found it and have moved it after all these years. It reminds me of a book when I was a kid called Sylvester and the magic pebble in a way
I am not a very good writer, i think that would be more for Anicia when she has some more time. She is the creative one! 😎
Ja anicia, wel zeer goed idee!! En jij zou dat inderdaad kunnen met mooie kindertekeningen erbij!!! Echt wel iets voor jou!
Wow you got the tractor moved. The channel Marty T has rescued several old tractors that have sat for decades. Lots of cleaning, checking oil and fuel, spark, lubricants. I'm sure there's vintage tractor clubs there also. Good luck!
We have found a good forum online that we can use and then of course Claude has soo much knowledge of these machines!
Yeah Mike! The three of you did a great job. Now, what are you going to do with it?
Your riding mower wouldn't even fit in my yard! Your tractor is cool. International Harvester makes a quality product. Most farmers around here have either an International Harvester or a John Deere tractor.
Hey Abigail, we are going to try very hard to get it running! Would be awesome tool to start maintaining the fields a little bit so the sea of brambles is a little bit contained.
so match history hop it works out for all you're projects.
Oh my goodness 😮 how many years since the red tractor came up to the farmhouse? ❤ Well done guys 🎉
According to people from the village at least 40 years since it has run, and i think 20 years outside...
Well done on that recovery! I'm sure you don't need another project but getting that tractor running will help you spend less time on general upkeep of the property. Bigger toys are always welcome! 😂
Thx Wayne! Yeah too much projects but the good thing about these old machines is that they will run on anything 😅and we really need something to clear the fields a bit of all the brambles i wont tackle that with the strimmer.
So exciting to see thbramble! being reclaimed from the brambles! It will be a great help on the farm.
Hey everen, once running i would like a hydraulic bucket on it and a attachment at the back for mowing the fields!
Do I sound like a proud mum if I say how very Proud I am just by seeing you take care of that lovely place?! So much progress in such a short while ...XoXo from Sweden
Haha Kristina, glad you are proud of us! We love all the great comments it keeps us going!
So exciting! Looking forward to seeing the tractor being brought back to life.
Thx Kathy, we are excited too. Especially the first start will be epic!
That will be a good tractor. International Harvester was a top brand. They built them to last in those days. I love the view of your farm at the very beginning. I can't wait till next Sunday.
We hope so too George! The first drone shot was last year when we arrived.
Any thoughts regarding the vintage of the tractor? My guess is late 50s to early/mid 60s, but I could be all wrong. Great that you managed to extract that tractor!! 😅
Hey Gloria, it should be from around 65.
@@DomaineSauvage That looks about right
amazing and brilliant video guys ,so much content ,well done on moving the tractor ,you are both so determined to get stuff done ,cant wait for next video welldone all of you ,wonderful your neighbour helping so great for youx
Hey Diana! Thx! The neighbors are great.
Hello guys.. great to see the tractor out and ready for a resto.. fantastic skills and determination
Thx John!
Wow!! You amaze me every time😂😂 greetings from South Africa
Haha thx Ronelda!
Love the tractor! Going to be another exciting project for Makita Man👌👍😉😁
Haha Patricia! Still not sponsored by Makita but i love their brand either way and will continue using it, professionally the tools never let me down really. 😎
Ribearth of a tractor 🚜
Hurray 🎉
Fingers crossed 😎😉
WOW 😮 you got it out
Oh yes we did, it wasn't the plan but it worked out 😅
you should try your pressure washer on your outdoor table. I bet you will be amazed how nice it comes up! Then put sealer on it. We did our old wood fence and I really didn't think it would make much of a difference but it looked like a brand new fence after we did it.
Tractor looks like it may have some potential. Hopefully you can get it going without too much effort. I am sure you would have lots of uses for it!!!
Hey Ann, the table is the old garden table from my mom and dad. It does need love but that will be for in the future!
What a recovery congratulations .
Thx Robert, it was very suddenly that we decided to give it another go!
Hey, great video… and we saw you at the end of the video doing crazy.. yep 😂alixe saw it🤣🥳
How many people will notice 😂
Great job getting the tractor out.
Thx Post!
Love this, pulling the tractor out, good work
Thx Normandy life!
Hey Phillipe, I wanted to make a small donation after your just giving post - I tried and then lost the reference. Would you please re-send it please? Good luck with it! Phil, Suffolk U.K. 🇬🇧
Phil you mean for the tractor? You can find it on the community tab on our channel page.
De bevrijde tractor..eindelijk. Als ie opgeknapt is zal ie nog een lang leven krijgen bij jullie, als ik zie hoe zuinig Philippe op zijn spullen is. Petje af....
Thx Dia, laten we hopen dat hij snel rijdt!
Great video !
Thx Sonia!
Everything is so beautiful.💙🦋🎉👏❤☺👍
Thx Leona, we had to wait a bit for summer but it is finally here!
Love watching your channel. So much energy you have.
Thank you Annemarie!
That was fun, it will be an interesting project.
lefty loosey righty tighty - how did you know that British? expression Philippe 😂
Is Mike British ? I'm wondering how many non French are there in the village ? 😮
I actually don't know where i picked that one up. Maybe when i was in Australia..? There are many British people in the region. And Mike is from the UK.
There is a big crack down the middle of the house going to the lintel above the doorway into the basement. I'm sure you see it as well. Is this not a priority to stabilise the building structure ?
We see it as well but nothing to worry about for now, we might put a small prop under the basement lintel.
@@DomaineSauvage I just want to say what an incredible job you and your wife have done in what is only the 1st year at the property. In think the way you're approaching things is good, because there are so many projects it can be easy to become overwhelmed. My only other question is whether the ground is still drying out behind the barn and when you're looking to work on the French drain ? Love the videos, especially the land clearing as it really looked like a jungle when you first arrived.
Thx! We have bought an old dumper but it needs a little bit of work and then we will start digging again, the ground is now dry enough to drive through the yard into the fields.
More land clearing to come in the future and still lots to clean up but for that we need the tractor up and running cause strimming the fields is just too much 😂
Does your neighbor have an idea why the front wheels are missing? And another neighbor brings out a piece of equipment left over from WW 2, and a centuries old farm house, the stories there must be around your community, probably not enough wine and baguettes to get through them all.
We have some ideas who took the front wheels and dumped it there... All the equipment that came with the tractor has "disappeared" as well... but i cant say who or what on UA-cam 😉
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Hope the tractor is fixable.
We hope so too Mark!
Does the mower need wheels
The tractor? The Stihl mower has wheels?