Trust worthy and legitimate people like Richard are invaluable, what a collection he has! Was super interesting learning the history behind the companies that offered up conversions and modifications. Look forward to some 7810 content, sometimes when the opportunities present themselves you gotta just take them!
My dad used to drive a small wheeled county decked out in forestry gear, twin drum winch on the back and a what you could call a small dozing blade on the front, it was replaced with a red coloured thing called a highlander ( if I remember correctly) it was basically a equal wheeled county with a roof mounted log grab, don't think it had the blade on the front though, mind dad saying it was a scary thing to drive flat out though. Need to see some Muir-Hills next
I hate it when that happens! I went to a Ford dealership once to pick up some parts for my old truck. By the time I left, I was driving a new Ford truck!!!
I remember visiting County at Fleet while at Sparsholt. One of the advantages County equal sized wheel units had over Roadless was the two prop shafts so that when the diff was engaged it locked all four wheels instead of 3 on the roadless.
Well melod, I have sat here watching this video dribbling and drooling over those great Ford tractors. The 7600 next to your 7810 would be my dream tractor to buy if circumstances permitted. Congratulations on the 7810 and I look forward to seeing it star in a future video. Top stuff and doffage of cap in your direction!
Used to get to drive a County skidder with a double drum Igland winch. It would scare you where it would go....hence doors off for bailout purposes!!!!! Skidding out to another County with a bed processor and grapple. Any chance of a forestry episode? My favourite was a tiny Massey based skidder known as a Highland Bear. Keep up the good work!
Here in the U.S. we did not get many County conversions. We did get some Fordsons, particularly the Dexta, and the Super Major. Most tandem conversions were farmer done.
Love your work Lord Muck truly entertaining. As an Aussie growing up on thirteen thousand acres tractors were king and have left a fascination for fifty years. You take us all back in time and nostalgia. I am unsure whether we ever had the Roadless but County’s were and still are super cool. Thanks for the enjoyment you bring in your video’s.
Brings back so many memories looking at those fords, county's & roadless , have driven most of them in my time , one roadless we had on trial to test for 3 months but never went into production was the 75 with hydraulically driven front wheels , was only marginally better than the 5000 . Game changer has to be the 7000 for me , when we got that it upped productivity by a good 50% . County's where the best luggers ploughing in heavy clay soils but the headlands you had to leave to turn wasted a lot of time
when the 7810 came out we had some 8210 first series running but they were a bit nasty looking and very high in seat position. The 7810 was imo the best looking and nice in power to weigh ratio too. The old 8210 had the ZF frontaxle and than the 7810 with the new carraro axle was a real looker ! Our farmers with their 7610 always complained about the front weigh which was way to less especially when ploughing. I would like to buy one but here in germany they are very rare ! Ford was a niche for farmers who´s father drove a Dexta or a 2/3/4/5000 series. And they had a hard stand vs all our brands driving 40km/h at these days !
That was a great episode to watch, M, Lud. I could give all day gawking around that shed. I, ll give Richard a look up on Facebook. Thanks as always. Regards from Ireland
Watched this and now an Ad pops up on Facebook with a 4wd 4610 for sale down the road from me! Im not even a tractor guy lol but tempted after watching this.
Great to see kurt, fascinating to see all the different variations, green through n through here but that’s some collection. Good luck with the 7810, just don’t let the rust jump off of it onto the 3350🤣
That was a great video mate. Next time I see Richard I'll have to ask for his autograph when I see him at the local machinary in whitland. I'm glad you got a 7810 you'll have to get a TS 115 next mate. 🚜🚜👌🏻👍😎🍻🍺🐕🐾
But really, anything else there you could have had, a Thomas or a Roadless 118 and you picked that? I'm glad my new purchase will be here before yours.
I have wanted a 7810 for along time so have been saving up for one the other week thought I have saved enough then found out the price of one has gone up so much now I can not afford one
I spent some of my summers pulling a silage trailer on a 7600 just like the one beside the 7810. Fond memories. Do you think the new kit about will be still working and even be around around in 40+ years
Oh dear, do we need to book you in for a detox, week away talking in a circle, or should it be an oval? To discuss your addictions 🤕🤣🤔🤯 More blue Sir, well done
@@LordMuck really where?! So ours is a Count Power Drives, the brockhurst transmission has no clutch- forward/reverse shuttle which is great for a loader tractor and is fitted with a farmhand 11f loader, original tractor is based on a Ford 6600
Really interesting seeing all the different conversions and ford variants could spend hours there. There's a collection in Suffolk with barns packed full of county's, Roadless, Muir Hills I was lucky enough to get a look round last year
That was 20 mins of pure Ford tractor porn!! Loved it. You're so lucky getting to buy a 7810 and also own the 8100. I'd love to have either but nowhere to keep it!!
My uncle had a jj Thomas 9500 on a double chop back through the 80s n 90s, she was used just for his silage it was some tractor in it’s time as you said ultra rare, this is some shed of gems 😍
I had a JJ Thomas 95-120 with a Schindler front 4wd axle on it Had to sell it in 2012 when I got divorced - still gutted and would love to buy it back 😢
Its funny how you compared the 7810 and the 8210. I grew up on a farm where we had both. Even though my love goes to the 7810 i have to agree with you. Basically they perform as though they are the same tractor, the 8210 is just that tat bigger and fitted better for pretty much all equipment we had. My Father and his brother also went tractorpulling with them. Even though both tractors pulled trophies home this was where the 7810 could outshine the 8210. Man i miss good old silver :)
I drove both models back in the day (Gen2 and 3) and the 8210 was just better/nicer all round. I did drive a decent 7810 one season which pulled like a train but most were... well... not an 8210.
Well Lord Muck, after admitting everything you've said about them, you're now the proud owner of a 7810! Well done, and yes, it is heartwarming to see someone like Richard being totally upfront and honest about its condition so I am looking forward to seeing another video about the repairs needed. BTW I am quite happy with my Duncan Super cab on the John Deere 1130 it certainly beats a sack over the knees, thick coat, gloves and a hood pulled down tight against the rain. Been there, done that, not funny.
We used to have a roadless 106 when I was young I thought she was a monster long nose Duncan cab small wheels. Traded her in for a 1690 turbo brown ther was a massive difference in comfort. And I agree the 8210 way better tractor unti l that electric lift. Disaster lol but lord almighty she wuda bored u to tears on the road
Got a massive soft spot for old Fords as started as a young fella on 5000 and 7000, 6610, 7810, 8210, tw 35, 8830 owned a 7840 2wd that had been hotted up with pump and bigger turbo etc. Mate had a big county pulling a freeman baler. Alway had a interest in the roadless and county conversations so that was a great video mucka, yaz could of rattled on for hours and I would of been glued to it. Cheers n beer's from New Zealand and a pat for the collies 👍👍🍻🍻👨🔧🚜🇳🇿
I've just found your great channel and this video brought some Memories back as a child of the 70's on a farm and sending for sales brochures from Roadless and Muir-Hill out of the Farmer's Weekly and Power Farming and ticking the "Student" box on the cut out, I still have those somewhere........great times .....Dave North Lincolnshire.
I think all tractor makers were slow off the mark to get 4x4. My life has been "steep country," It's not the power or the traction. It was the holding back on the down hill that was the difference between living or dyeing. A minority requirement factory designers never understood. In the cab it says :"in case of a rollover remain in the seat and hold on to the steering wheel" realty was prop the door open and fucking jump for your life. Cheers jim in NZ.
Well done mucker excellent vid, my family have always had ford and new Holland but my grandad and dad never spent a penny more than they needed too such as no bigger tyres, no super q, no extras at all !! The first my dad can remember was a Fordson dexta that they kept for a good 30 years as a scraper tractor, they also had a 3000 when it came out on the market and had that a good 15-20 years in the early 80s they then bought a 3610 which was a brilliant yard tractor but then my grandad and his brother wanted to move on a bit as then they both had there own families and was getting hard to make a living with 250 acres so they bought a 2nd farm that was 350 acres but with 600 acres two relatively small tractors just weren’t enough so the 3610 went to the 2nd farm and they bought a 5610 as the main tractor, this was a massive step up as they now had a tractor that was 72 horses and 4WD!! Despite it not having a q cab they did go for wide tyres, and that was a mistake! My father described it like a monster truck with 72 horses. They had regulars but on it then but years down the line my great uncle that lived on the 2nd farm had a heart attack and unfortunately died, considering the farms being live stock only it wasn’t possible to run both of them so they had to sell the 2nd farm but then 3 tractors were to much for our yard so they traded the 3000 and 3610 for a matbro for a good few years and then traded the 5610 for a “mighty” 6635 which had a iveco engine with 85hp but overall most parts were fiat and we had it for seven or eight years and my dad claimed that “it never broke down not even a bulb”after that beast was sold we had a TL100A and that was almost the love of my life, although it had a basic cab it’s was the last tractor on our farm that had no electric throttle or any of that crap if you gave her a welly in 2nd she would shift like a beaut to 3rd, once we finished paying for the TL we sold the matbro for a manitou can’t remember the model but we had that for only 4-5 years and bought a T5.115 with a quickie q46 loader on it and it looks a bit ridiculous on a small t5 and has and still is wrecking the tractor it self, this was in April 2013 so the t5 range was new to the market which meant the gear box is a pile of poo, but at the time new Holland we’re choosing three farmers with a t5 to do a advert/ review and coincidence or not my dad was one of them! so our local dealership came and recorded it and had some fun but we only had a thank you a boylersuit each and a model of a T7? early this year we sold our TL for a case farmall 115c which is the same as a t5 and that’s going good but couple thing not perfect if I’m honest such as rear axle leak and cab leak and hydraulics that glitches out, when we finish paying for the farmall it is very likely that the t5 will go as it’s already on 5000 hours at 8 years old and we sold the TL when it was 14 at 4800 hours. Any way loving the vids mucker
This was a very nice view for me, I like seeing the different variations from what we have in the U.S. Dad had a 5600 that was our small tractor and loader worker, a 7700 that was upgraded to a 7710 for our mid size tractor and our big tractor was a White 2-135 then a JD 7610. All were good, spent a lot of hours on the Ford's, all they ever needed was regular service and never failed us. Miss putting hours on them.
Always wanted an 8210. Demoed one. Had 2500hrs on it. Dropped the engine oil. Coolant in it. Had to pass. Ran great though, looked like new. We were mostly a ford farm in the 80’s and 90’s, now we have a 4630, an excellent tractor. A 5610 and an 8870. New Holland badged of course. But I give ford the credit for that one, well most of the credit goes to Buhler Versatile, but the genesis engine is a Cracker Jack of a motor. Dynoed 303hp and 1600lb/ft of torque off the showroom floor.
Good evening your Lordship, this weeks video was very very interesting and totally 💯 fascinating 🤨 with a capital F and I myself really do like 👍 a classic tractor 🚜 and it really doesn’t matter who or which manufacture has built it as there are so cool 😎 and until next time Lord Muck TaRa for a bit.
Great video, always find the conversions and all their variants so interesting. We have a home made conversation in the family, not quite sure how it came about but my uncle thought it be a good idea to put a V8 combine engine into a 7000 roadless, think it had to be stretched slightly to fit the engine in…and I can confirm it’s very loud!! 😂
What a fantastic look around at that collection of fords, I have always been a fan of roadless & county as you have probably heard me “crow” on about . Its not until you get a chance to look at a collection & compare the tractors in the barn that you realise that all these machines could have been lost or scraped, without people helping to save them.👍The old tractors really have some character over modern machines, only got to look at the thickness of metal & engineering on the roadless to see that , not made out of tin & plastic like today’s machines. That must of been a pleasure to walk around that barn & look 👀, Good luck with the tractor you purchased, I think it would of been difficult for me to have walked away from a deal, especially with Ford prices shooting up, well done 👍. Many thanks for great film footage !!!😊
i can still remember seeing the late roadless 120 (10 series bonnet) at our training collage at stone (bt) when i first started ,not in a good a condition as it is now ,we used to have a good few when i started ,the one in our yard was used for mole ploughing cables in across the moors , all we bought were the equal wheeled types , the one in the yard was a lambourne cabbed one,,sadly never got to drive it though,as that work got subbed out a couple of year after i joined
ALWAY look forward to your videos my friend. Your content ALWAY is so very impressive. Love your venture down memory lane. Don't stop these types of videos Lord Muck. Take care Chap
Nice vid mucker, on the money about richard, wish there were more dealers like him around. 7810 eh 😆 i knew you'd have one in the end ,best tractor i ever drove . 👌
I noticed that most of the tractors you showed had the Simms injection pump. Those pumps would eat more trash than any other fuel injection system to this day. Thanks for the video
Great vid thanks for that lord muck. Richard is only 15 minutes away from me and bought some bits off him over the years and he is one of the most honest and nicest man to deal with. Thank you both keep it coming 👌👍. P.s. couldn’t stop laughing at the end of the vid. That’s happened to me at Baggott’s before ,needed a door for a tractor and ended up buying the whole tractor!!!
Hi there from New Zealand. I bought a brand new 7000 dual power. And ordered a selene front wheel drive unit. It was an excellent tractor for it's time. It replaced a MF178 that I had fitted a selene front wheel drive unit to after rolling it down a gully just just a few months from new. As well we purchased a new County 1164 for heavy hills Country work braking in virgin ground. They were both excellent machines. Wish I could get them back for a personal collection. Great Chanel and video
It's been so long since I seen your vids. I forgot how good your content was. Keep up the great work and content. When did Ford turn over to New Holland?
My Dad was at Harper Adams with a chap called Martin ( can’t for the life of me remember his surname). Martin went on to work at Ford and was responsible for the 7810. I believe against the will of his superiors! They remained friends until Dad passed away.
Your right mucka that 8210 with the front fenders looks the part, it looks how a tractor should do.i don't know about performance but it's proportionally correct,the wheels look perfectly sized to the body of it, so yeah that's my tuppence worth! NICE 🦢 MUCK!!!👌
I am on the same hymn sheet as you LM I used to drive an 8210 and loved it. Farm had 2. Then the 7810 came out. I have driven many of them, from brand new demos to high hours examples. Preforming various tasks. I really don't see what the excitement is about them. The 7610 had more slogging and staying power. The 7810 is like the MF3080 and other NA 6 cylinders of the time. Unless you can keep the revs high. They soon loose power and you come to a halt. Especially while hauling beet in wet conditions.
This was tractor porn for me! You've also cleared up something that had puzzled me since my childhood, which is in the distant past by now. I always wondered why Ford named their big tractors County and now I know. It wasn't Ford at all! I'd never heard of Roadless and obviously, was totally oblivious to the fact that County and Roadless were Ford conversions! Thank you once again for an informative and entertaining video!
This is a great video. Thanks again
The fact that the Ford 7000 was a rear tractor in circulation in the ROI.
Fantastic video mucka if my old man was still here he would be exited to see that collection. Thankyou for sharing 👍🏻
Great vid looking forward to seeing you do the 7810 up mukker 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Trust worthy and legitimate people like Richard are invaluable, what a collection he has! Was super interesting learning the history behind the companies that offered up conversions and modifications. Look forward to some 7810 content, sometimes when the opportunities present themselves you gotta just take them!
Just about to head out the door for a pint and you decide to publish a video 🙈, I'm going to be late now!
This is where i bought my first tractor and i saw all of theese tractors and it nice to know all about them
My dad used to drive a small wheeled county decked out in forestry gear, twin drum winch on the back and a what you could call a small dozing blade on the front, it was replaced with a red coloured thing called a highlander ( if I remember correctly) it was basically a equal wheeled county with a roof mounted log grab, don't think it had the blade on the front though, mind dad saying it was a scary thing to drive flat out though. Need to see some Muir-Hills next
I hate it when that happens! I went to a Ford dealership once to pick up some parts for my old truck. By the time I left, I was driving a new Ford truck!!!
Congrats on the 7810! I’m with you on the 8210 though.
I remember visiting County at Fleet while at Sparsholt. One of the advantages County equal sized wheel units had over Roadless was the two prop shafts so that when the diff was engaged it locked all four wheels instead of 3 on the roadless.
Well melod, I have sat here watching this video dribbling and drooling over those great Ford tractors. The 7600 next to your 7810 would be my dream tractor to buy if circumstances permitted. Congratulations on the 7810 and I look forward to seeing it star in a future video. Top stuff and doffage of cap in your direction!
Used to get to drive a County skidder with a double drum Igland winch. It would scare you where it would go....hence doors off for bailout purposes!!!!! Skidding out to another County with a bed processor and grapple. Any chance of a forestry episode? My favourite was a tiny Massey based skidder known as a Highland Bear. Keep up the good work!
Drew silage with a 7810 series 3 for a season. Clutching change gear while keeping foot on throttle and hitting the floor change was a art
I sold the 8100 last summer to th white Hereford, I can’t believe I it’s it’s in this video, we had that 8100 for 37 years on the farm
It’s really nice that the Union Jack is still on the side grill 🇬🇧
Here in the U.S. we did not get many County conversions. We did get some Fordsons, particularly the Dexta, and the Super Major. Most tandem conversions were farmer done.
Love your work Lord Muck truly entertaining. As an Aussie growing up on thirteen thousand acres tractors were king and have left a fascination for fifty years. You take us all back in time and nostalgia. I am unsure whether we ever had the Roadless but County’s were and still are super cool. Thanks for the enjoyment you bring in your video’s.
Thanks, glad you're enjoying it 👍
Brings back so many memories looking at those fords, county's & roadless , have driven most of them in my time , one roadless we had on trial to test for 3 months but never went into production was the 75 with hydraulically driven front wheels , was only marginally better than the 5000 . Game changer has to be the 7000 for me , when we got that it upped productivity by a good 50% . County's where the best luggers ploughing in heavy clay soils but the headlands you had to leave to turn wasted a lot of time
when the 7810 came out we had some 8210 first series running but they were a bit nasty looking and very high in seat position. The 7810 was imo the best looking and nice in power to weigh ratio too. The old 8210 had the ZF frontaxle and than the 7810 with the new carraro axle was a real looker ! Our farmers with their 7610 always complained about the front weigh which was way to less especially when ploughing. I would like to buy one but here in germany they are very rare ! Ford was a niche for farmers who´s father drove a Dexta or a 2/3/4/5000 series. And they had a hard stand vs all our brands driving 40km/h at these days !
Thanks LM, this video compliments the Ford Tractor Story - part 2 book I’m reading, great to see them on film. Maybe one day I’ll get a 3000 or 4000.
That was a great episode to watch, M, Lud. I could give all day gawking around that shed. I, ll give Richard a look up on Facebook. Thanks as always.
Regards from Ireland
I remember the 7810 being the tractor of choice around alot of country lanes growing up......
I worked for a turf company in Worcestershire. And we had a Jewelltrac 115 with fork lift on rear. Ex Falklands.
Watched this and now an Ad pops up on Facebook with a 4wd 4610 for sale down the road from me! Im not even a tractor guy lol but tempted after watching this.
Great to see kurt, fascinating to see all the different variations, green through n through here but that’s some collection. Good luck with the 7810, just don’t let the rust jump off of it onto the 3350🤣
Another great video Kurt, nice to see some old gems tucked away, nice tidy 7810, that going to be another raffle tractor😉
7810 4 wheel drive with a cab is like hens teeth in the states. Been looking for one for years
Lovely purchase mucka n crackin tractor to great vid again and some lovely owd yolks
Fascinating stuff! Well done!!!
Another mighty fine production good Sir. 😉😎
That was a great video mate. Next time I see Richard I'll have to ask for his autograph when I see him at the local machinary in whitland. I'm glad you got a 7810 you'll have to get a TS 115 next mate. 🚜🚜👌🏻👍😎🍻🍺🐕🐾
Great video as always keep the great videos coming lord muck
Great collection, good interesting video enjoyed it.
I hope you aren't planning on bringing that thing back here, Anglian Metals aren't due to pick up for another month.
Once I've cleared all those chunks of red shyte from the benches, I'll weigh it all in and book a lap dancer for the week.
But really, anything else there you could have had, a Thomas or a Roadless 118 and you picked that? I'm glad my new purchase will be here before yours.
You can Fuck off. If it's not a 590 Turbo or a 2720 then I'll put a gas axe straight through the bell housing.
I told you, it's a 625 Super II with a cab. Low hours and a 12 foot powerflow header.
You bring a combine to the yard and I'll set fire to the bastard and rob the wiring and phosphor bronze bushes from it.
Couldn’t agree more. 8210 for me too 👍🏻
My dad's got a 7810, works like a dream, though the seat is kinda torn and the cassete player doesn't work
That is some collection 👍
That was great 👍 and Richard is a good guy his stock is bang on you've made a great buy enjoy 👌I would have done the same 🙏
7810 got Sussex tractors badge on?
I have wanted a 7810 for along time so have been saving up for one the other week thought I have saved enough then found out the price of one has gone up so much now I can not afford one
If you're buying a Ford with a cab I'd say its got to be the Super Q
I've got a Tw20 with the Q cab and I just can't get the idea of liking it
I spent some of my summers pulling a silage trailer on a 7600 just like the one beside the 7810. Fond memories.
Do you think the new kit about will be still working and even be around around in 40+ years
Yes
Only watching now as I've been saving it , amazing video as per usual mucker , thanks 👍
Oh dear, do we need to book you in for a detox, week away talking in a circle, or should it be an oval? To discuss your addictions 🤕🤣🤔🤯 More blue Sir, well done
Will you be going to Newark this year?
Not sure at the moment but probably.
So the 8100 was a six cylinder conversion, but normally aspirated?
Yes, 2715E
Have a County Farmhand loader tractor, brockhurst transmission, don’t know anyone else with one
I saw one exactly the same leave that yard a month or so back 😂
@@LordMuck really where?! So ours is a Count Power Drives, the brockhurst transmission has no clutch- forward/reverse shuttle which is great for a loader tractor and is fitted with a farmhand 11f loader, original tractor is based on a Ford 6600
This one was based on a Ford 5000, complete with F11 and was as clean as I have seen.
He who dies with the most toys wins!!
👍👍👍👍👍
Where did you get you're overalls from ? Are they original or newer ?
I got them from the back of the door in the utility room.
Now then when you makeing a start on marshal 😂
I'll do something on Marshall next year
Lord Muck need to pull ya finger out 😂
If I had any interest in them, I probably would...
Lord Muck don’t be like that 😂.
What an incredible collection of blue conversions.
I agree, 8210 was the Daddy in that range!
Really interesting seeing all the different conversions and ford variants could spend hours there. There's a collection in Suffolk with barns packed full of county's, Roadless, Muir Hills I was lucky enough to get a look round last year
That was 20 mins of pure Ford tractor porn!! Loved it. You're so lucky getting to buy a 7810 and also own the 8100. I'd love to have either but nowhere to keep it!!
My uncle had a jj Thomas 9500 on a double chop back through the 80s n 90s, she was used just for his silage it was some tractor in it’s time as you said ultra rare, this is some shed of gems 😍
That's fantastic to hear about someone using one in anger ! They were a decent bit of power with a good cab back in the day 😎🤠
Oh and I must compliment you on the car roll in Shaft 😂 I must have watched it about 20 times !
Your content always makes me laugh 😉🤠🤠
@@LordMuck 🤣🤣🤣it wasn’t that funny at the time of the crash 😅 but we will live to tell another tale 🤠
You boys are incredible, your filming and editing are on another level 😎🤠
I had a JJ Thomas 95-120 with a Schindler front 4wd axle on it
Had to sell it in 2012 when I got divorced - still gutted and would love to buy it back 😢
I know someone who has a 95-100 that’s 4wd been sat in the barn for 20 years!
@@bwagri mine had the cab cut off, but it was still a beast! One of those projects that was sat in my shed for years….
Its funny how you compared the 7810 and the 8210. I grew up on a farm where we had both. Even though my love goes to the 7810 i have to agree with you. Basically they perform as though they are the same tractor, the 8210 is just that tat bigger and fitted better for pretty much all equipment we had.
My Father and his brother also went tractorpulling with them. Even though both tractors pulled trophies home this was where the 7810 could outshine the 8210.
Man i miss good old silver :)
I drove both models back in the day (Gen2 and 3) and the 8210 was just better/nicer all round.
I did drive a decent 7810 one season which pulled like a train but most were... well... not an 8210.
Great video mate, Richard is such a nice man and what a fabulous collection of Ford tractors, good luck with your 7810 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video but if you ever track down a County FC I'd love to see a video of that! I'm sure you'll come to love the 7810!!
Good purchases I would say Lord Muck bud. My father's first ford was the 4000 hardy little tractor. 👍🚜
FORD IS GOLD 💪👌 SIMPLY THE BEST 💪👍👌❤️
Well Lord Muck, after admitting everything you've said about them, you're now the proud owner of a 7810! Well done, and yes, it is heartwarming to see someone like Richard being totally upfront and honest about its condition so I am looking forward to seeing another video about the repairs needed. BTW I am quite happy with my Duncan Super cab on the John Deere 1130 it certainly beats a sack over the knees, thick coat, gloves and a hood pulled down tight against the rain. Been there, done that, not funny.
We used to have a roadless 106 when I was young I thought she was a monster long nose Duncan cab small wheels. Traded her in for a 1690 turbo brown ther was a massive difference in comfort. And I agree the 8210 way better tractor unti l that electric lift. Disaster lol but lord almighty she wuda bored u to tears on the road
Bought a few tractors of Richard. Great bloke to deal with always has a good stock of tractors.
Got a massive soft spot for old Fords as started as a young fella on 5000 and 7000, 6610, 7810, 8210, tw 35, 8830 owned a 7840 2wd that had been hotted up with pump and bigger turbo etc. Mate had a big county pulling a freeman baler. Alway had a interest in the roadless and county conversations so that was a great video mucka, yaz could of rattled on for hours and I would of been glued to it. Cheers n beer's from New Zealand and a pat for the collies 👍👍🍻🍻👨🔧🚜🇳🇿
I've just found your great channel and this video brought some Memories back as a child of the 70's on a farm and sending for sales brochures from Roadless and Muir-Hill out of the Farmer's Weekly and Power Farming and ticking the "Student" box on the cut out, I still have those somewhere........great times .....Dave North Lincolnshire.
I think all tractor makers were slow off the mark to get 4x4. My life has been "steep country," It's not the power or the traction. It was the holding back on the down hill that was the difference between living or dyeing. A minority requirement factory designers never understood. In the cab it says :"in case of a rollover remain in the seat and hold on to the steering wheel" realty was prop the door open and fucking jump for your life. Cheers jim in NZ.
Well done mucker excellent vid, my family have always had ford and new Holland but my grandad and dad never spent a penny more than they needed too such as no bigger tyres, no super q, no extras at all !! The first my dad can remember was a Fordson dexta that they kept for a good 30 years as a scraper tractor, they also had a 3000 when it came out on the market and had that a good 15-20 years in the early 80s they then bought a 3610 which was a brilliant yard tractor but then my grandad and his brother wanted to move on a bit as then they both had there own families and was getting hard to make a living with 250 acres so they bought a 2nd farm that was 350 acres but with 600 acres two relatively small tractors just weren’t enough so the 3610 went to the 2nd farm and they bought a 5610 as the main tractor, this was a massive step up as they now had a tractor that was 72 horses and 4WD!! Despite it not having a q cab they did go for wide tyres, and that was a mistake! My father described it like a monster truck with 72 horses. They had regulars but on it then but years down the line my great uncle that lived on the 2nd farm had a heart attack and unfortunately died, considering the farms being live stock only it wasn’t possible to run both of them so they had to sell the 2nd farm but then 3 tractors were to much for our yard so they traded the 3000 and 3610 for a matbro for a good few years and then traded the 5610 for a “mighty” 6635 which had a iveco engine with 85hp but overall most parts were fiat and we had it for seven or eight years and my dad claimed that “it never broke down not even a bulb”after that beast was sold we had a TL100A and that was almost the love of my life, although it had a basic cab it’s was the last tractor on our farm that had no electric throttle or any of that crap if you gave her a welly in 2nd she would shift like a beaut to 3rd, once we finished paying for the TL we sold the matbro for a manitou can’t remember the model but we had that for only 4-5 years and bought a T5.115 with a quickie q46 loader on it and it looks a bit ridiculous on a small t5 and has and still is wrecking the tractor it self, this was in April 2013 so the t5 range was new to the market which meant the gear box is a pile of poo, but at the time new Holland we’re choosing three farmers with a t5 to do a advert/ review and coincidence or not my dad was one of them! so our local dealership came and recorded it and had some fun but we only had a thank you a boylersuit each and a model of a T7? early this year we sold our TL for a case farmall 115c which is the same as a t5 and that’s going good but couple thing not perfect if I’m honest such as rear axle leak and cab leak and hydraulics that glitches out, when we finish paying for the farmall it is very likely that the t5 will go as it’s already on 5000 hours at 8 years old and we sold the TL when it was 14 at 4800 hours. Any way loving the vids mucker
I used to like the TS range, always punched well above their weight.
Absolutely hate Ford/newholland. But the conversion are brilliant more of this please
This was a very nice view for me, I like seeing the different variations from what we have in the U.S. Dad had a 5600 that was our small tractor and loader worker, a 7700 that was upgraded to a 7710 for our mid size tractor and our big tractor was a White 2-135 then a JD 7610. All were good, spent a lot of hours on the Ford's, all they ever needed was regular service and never failed us. Miss putting hours on them.
Always wanted an 8210. Demoed one. Had 2500hrs on it. Dropped the engine oil. Coolant in it. Had to pass. Ran great though, looked like new. We were mostly a ford farm in the 80’s and 90’s, now we have a 4630, an excellent tractor. A 5610 and an 8870. New Holland badged of course. But I give ford the credit for that one, well most of the credit goes to Buhler Versatile, but the genesis engine is a Cracker Jack of a motor. Dynoed 303hp and 1600lb/ft of torque off the showroom floor.
Good evening your Lordship, this weeks video was very very interesting and totally 💯 fascinating 🤨 with a capital F and I myself really do like 👍 a classic tractor 🚜 and it really doesn’t matter who or which manufacture has built it as there are so cool 😎 and until next time Lord Muck TaRa for a bit.
Cheers Jack
What's the difference machically between a 7810 and a 7910 I prefer the look of the 7910 why are they so much cheaper and not got the following kurt
Mechanically not much but usually lower spec
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Great video, always find the conversions and all their variants so interesting. We have a home made conversation in the family, not quite sure how it came about but my uncle thought it be a good idea to put a V8 combine engine into a 7000 roadless, think it had to be stretched slightly to fit the engine in…and I can confirm it’s very loud!! 😂
I'll have to come take a look at that !
Used plough with 8210 turbo what a tractor
I knew that such things existed we had to make due with horses here on the rez
What a fantastic look around at that collection of fords, I have always been a fan of roadless & county as you have probably heard me “crow” on about . Its not until you get a chance to look at a collection & compare the tractors in the barn that you realise that all these machines could have been lost or scraped, without people helping to save them.👍The old tractors really have some character over modern machines, only got to look at the thickness of metal & engineering on the roadless to see that , not made out of tin & plastic like today’s machines. That must of been a pleasure to walk around that barn & look 👀, Good luck with the tractor you purchased, I think it would of been difficult for me to have walked away from a deal, especially with Ford prices shooting up, well done 👍. Many thanks for great film footage !!!😊
Normally I would tell you to go and have a hour alone in your safe space,,,,, but that does look nice
Really interesting video - congrats on the new Tractor!
i can still remember seeing the late roadless 120 (10 series bonnet) at our training collage at stone (bt) when i first started ,not in a good a condition as it is now ,we used to have a good few when i started ,the one in our yard was used for mole ploughing cables in across the moors , all we bought were the equal wheeled types , the one in the yard was a lambourne cabbed one,,sadly never got to drive it though,as that work got subbed out a couple of year after i joined
ALWAY look forward to your videos my friend. Your content ALWAY is so very impressive. Love your venture down memory lane. Don't stop these types of videos Lord Muck. Take care Chap
I appreciate that 😉
Nice vid mucker, on the money about richard, wish there were more dealers like him around. 7810 eh 😆 i knew you'd have one in the end ,best tractor i ever drove . 👌
"Right muckers" Cracks me up every time. That's a great collection of tractors!
Glad you enjoyed it David 👌🏼
I noticed that most of the tractors you showed had the Simms injection pump. Those pumps would eat more trash than any other fuel injection system to this day. Thanks for the video
Enjoyable video about conversions and custom built Ford tractors ;-}
Great vid thanks for that lord muck. Richard is only 15 minutes away from me and bought some bits off him over the years and he is one of the most honest and nicest man to deal with. Thank you both keep it coming 👌👍. P.s. couldn’t stop laughing at the end of the vid. That’s happened to me at Baggott’s before ,needed a door for a tractor and ended up buying the whole tractor!!!
Lovely video, very enjoyable, well done on your new purchase, look forward to seeing what you will do with the 7810
Great history lesson LM, much of the good stuff is born out of necessity!
I’m no Ford fan with the exception of a 7810, but that is an impressive collection. Thanks for sharing
Hi there from New Zealand. I bought a brand new 7000 dual power. And ordered a selene front wheel drive unit. It was an excellent tractor for it's time. It replaced a MF178 that I had fitted a selene front wheel drive unit to after rolling it down a gully just just a few months from new. As well we purchased a new County 1164 for heavy hills Country work braking in virgin ground. They were both excellent machines. Wish I could get them back for a personal collection.
Great Chanel and video
Awesome tractor the q cab was a nice place to be so comfy even in todays era
Makes a change to find an honest guy selling stuff (rare) like buying a big boy mechano kit
Loved driving the Ford 7000 cracking tractor of its day
Noise was a bugger though 😖
It's been so long since I seen your vids. I forgot how good your content was. Keep up the great work and content. When did Ford turn over to New Holland?
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My Dad was at Harper Adams with a chap called Martin ( can’t for the life of me remember his surname). Martin went on to work at Ford and was responsible for the 7810. I believe against the will of his superiors! They remained friends until Dad passed away.
Your right mucka that 8210 with the front fenders looks the part, it looks how a tractor should do.i don't know about performance but it's proportionally correct,the wheels look perfectly sized to the body of it, so yeah that's my tuppence worth! NICE 🦢 MUCK!!!👌
I am on the same hymn sheet as you LM I used to drive an 8210 and loved it. Farm had 2. Then the 7810 came out. I have driven many of them, from brand new demos to high hours examples. Preforming various tasks. I really don't see what the excitement is about them. The 7610 had more slogging and staying power. The 7810 is like the MF3080 and other NA 6 cylinders of the time. Unless you can keep the revs high. They soon loose power and you come to a halt. Especially while hauling beet in wet conditions.
Great video, fair play you are a very knowledgeable person 👍🚜
I like the 7810 but have to agree with you 8210 for me as well
This was tractor porn for me! You've also cleared up something that had puzzled me since my childhood, which is in the distant past by now. I always wondered why Ford named their big tractors County and now I know. It wasn't Ford at all! I'd never heard of Roadless and obviously, was totally oblivious to the fact that County and Roadless were Ford conversions! Thank you once again for an informative and entertaining video!
We have a County 944, Ford 4610, ford 5000 and looking for a ford 8210. What are your thoughts
Yes if you want one buy one