I discovered true happiness this summer. My 3yr old granddaughter visits me in the garage and wants to pick up every tool in the my box and ask “What’s this do Papa?”
I was born in 1961.. and got involved in all kinds of machinery .. car engines. Motorcycles ..remote control planes.. electronics .. etc etc from a very early age.. before 10 years old I had done all of this... I am so happy to find your channel.. it brings back memories to me but also makes me so impressed with your attention to detail.. whilst making the explanation as simple as possible... fantastic job Richard!.. great job and hope you continue to make many more such videos!
@@YesterdaysMachinery In my view, your editing is very good and I can't really see anything you should change. Keep it the way you keep your machinery: straight forward, effective, and unpolished! Video quality and sound quality are great too.
I am old now but as a boy my friends and I could identify police cars by their engine sound. All the police cars were same make and model and all tuned by the same mechanic who tuned the engines by ear. The mechanic’s name was Kenny and we would say to each other ‘sounds like Kenny’. I’ll bet you could tune by ear yourself if you wanted to. Good job and thank you.
I agree with some of your other contributors in that I always set the flywheel to the timing mark and then loosen and turn the distributor to see the spark or put a light in series with the points. I always dab a little grease on the distributor cam as especially on something that has stood a while the cam may be quite abrasive and wear the points heel and alter the gap and timing , Very well presented as always
Your work is very good. Top mechanic and video producer. Like how you speed up and slow down. This makes for a quality video. Show what you are producing on the farm if you can too peas.
i am a German and it is something for me unusual to see such a Tractor, which is still a "working" Tractor, without a rollbar. In the 60's it became mandatory for German Farmers to retrofit their Tractors with Rollbars. In most cases it was simply three sturdy steelpipes which could be inserted into two Sleeves over the back Axis. It was an easy Retrofit which reduced the accidents especially when you where pulling uphill or on uneven Ground. Often the Farmers don't drive with them around on Roads, but for working on the Fields or in the Woods it's mandatory. We got some of "Museums Tractors" which are not retrofitted. But a lot of them have the Sleeves but simply not the Rollbar inserted to look original.
Its a very nice tractor You have there. To make the timing light work You need to connect the 12 volt battery to the tractor’s earth. Without that reference, timing light will not work!
Audio was very clear and great video quality too! My number 2 daughter was only 3 and she loved to spend time with me in the workshop. If I asked her to pass me a ½" AF spanner, she had no problems selecting the right one! Your little one brought back the memory! 👌
You will need to change the front tyres if you want good steering on none road surfaces working farm implements as these tyres will just skid and you will be forever using the wheel brakes to force steerage, a simple solution would be to fit chains to the front tyres when farming with an extra heavy middle radial chain this will give the wheels directional traction and save your break bands from wearing out quickly
Nope, kinda tight. But iv'e seen worse. Yes it is a joy when they are interested in engines in so early years. My girls are 1.5 and 3 years now. But time just flies. Soon they will fill up my shop with so much projects of their own that i have to move out i think. /Richard
So cool when you sat your daughter down with some tools so she could work on her bike in the shop with dad! Seems like my daughter was that same age - she's 14 now. It goes fast, my friend.
This was very well done and very interesting as are all your videos. You seem to have a lot of mechanical savvy for a man your age. You must have started young, probably on a farm. Thank you for your efforts and sharing your work with us.
Glad I stumbled on to your channel....Your tractor motor is much like the engine in my Triumph TR3 (1959)....I was just showing my son the antique Snap-on valve adjusting tool I've had for many years and explaining how it was used....A few minutes ago I called him to see how you adjusted your valves, and then it all made sense to him .....I've been maintaining my TR for 53 years, and my son is 33....It's important to me for him to learn about mechanical things (as well as computers), and channels like yours help me immensely....He has a 1972 Chevelle, so his learning curve is just beginning. haha..........Thanks, John (west coast, Can.)
Hi! Nice to hear that it helps. My doughters are 3 and 5 years old now. I try to show them as much as i can, and they really like machines and engines al ready! Horses also.. but that is a good hobby also! /Richard
Hello from us in Holland, the video is exellant. If I see to your video I am surprised how easy you manage the repair of this tractor. You must be an engineer . ( I am a bookkeeper) many succes with you nice working engine. 🌷🌷Jan
to dry time a points ign set your flywheel to the 4 degrees,put a spark plug in the # 1 plug wire then loosen the dist. turn the key to run,and slowly turn the dist till a spark jumps the plug gap, tighten dist and you will be balls on every time!
Dear Richard, So nice to see the tuning up! Typical Volvo tappet noise. I used to have a Volvo 240 [2.3 litre B-series but with an overhead cam], but as a child in the 1970s we had a 145 Wagon with the 2 litre [B-series] which had almost exactly the same rocker cover and oil filler cap, and the same push-rod arrangement. It always had that typical Volvo tappet clatter. I rather like that. I remember doing the timing [of the ignition] and we used a timing light on cylinder one on the front of the crankshaft. So nice to see this great old school style being treated with such care. I would love a tractor like this. I am sixty, and just starting out [after brief period of un-employment] on gardening for wealthy people, and there is a huge demand, so I could almost justify getting a tractor rather than a car! I have never seen a Volvo BM in the UK, but I guess I might find a nice one in Norway or Sweden. I really enjoyed your videos on the old stationary engines as well. Your posts bring me a smile in world where there are not nearly enough smiles. Med glad hilsen fra George Fredrik.
Cheap timing lights are electrostatic voltage pickup instead of magnetic current pickup. The electrostatic pickup type need a ground return path, so connecting the earth of the external battery to the tractor body will make it work
I wish they still made tractors like this. Very similar to our American tractors of that vintage. I have a 1948 International Super A and a 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 diesel. Great channel
Tractor engines which purr rather than chug have always been uncommon. Only about eleven thousand B M 425 examples were made in five years and they used an engine developed for a decent quality motor car. Even the petrol/gasoline motor used in the Ferguson 20 and similarly car based, is a trifle more "agricultural''.
Nice tractor, it´s a shame i don´t have a need for one myself. I learnt from my father to set the timing the old way as well but i look directly at the point for a spark, easier on an old beetle.
Camera work is the best I have seen. Commentary is about right, not too much. Audio is fine and I use closed captions cause I'm 70 and my hearing is not so sharp. Keep them coming. I am restoring a narrow guage diesel loco to operation, and I have learned a lot from your videos.
One beautiful machine! I especially like that you don't try to make them look modern and brand new. It seems a lot of people erase the work that old tractors and such have done. Each dent, scratch, and bit of faded paint tells a story. Can't wait to see it working! 😁
i share your quality of parts & china crap is just that! looks like you have a nice shop and a charming little girl! thanks from new subscriber from Montana, USA
Great episode. Good to see old equipment being given some love. Nice to see your daughter seeing what dad's doing and " mending"her bike with your tools. Great way to get the next generation intrested.
Disconnect the ground between the coil and distributor and put a light instead, connected to the battery. When the points open you loose the ground = ignition timing,
It's great to see your youngsters getting to handle a wrench. I have a picture of my daughter, putting a wrench to my first tractor, back in 1978, when she was 5 years old. Her daughter is now almost 16, and has no interest in "wrenching with Grandpa" now.😥
If you park the tractor outside, I hope you have a rain flapper on the exhaust pipe. Or a can to cover it with. Just saying. Really good job bringing old iron back to life !!
About the timinglight : connect the minus from the external 12V battery to the minus of the tractor. That may help the timinglight to work. Nice machine. 👍🏻🤝🏻
@@YesterdaysMachinery an external battery will work just fine for a timing light, just as you had it. The power is just for the flash bulb. I can confirm, because a couple weeks ago, I verified the timing on an Allis Chalmers with a magneto, using a jump starter pack. The way I was taught to set timing on a John deere with a points distributor, is to turn the flywheel to where you want the spark to fire, and with the distributor real loose, rotate the distributor until it sparks, then clamp it down. Greetings from Wisconsin, USA! I really enjoy seeing all the "exotic" engineering on the old iron.
Thanks for another interesting blog. Those old tractors were built to last and were real workhorses… I love seeing them taken care of, loved, and used. Good work. Thanks again.
Very enjoyable all round. Great quality video and audio. Great to see your little girl having a go. My lass is 10 now and just starting to show signs of growing out of messing with stuff in the garage with Dad. Might have to fix that! All the best chap.
I discovered true happiness this summer. My 3yr old granddaughter visits me in the garage and wants to pick up every tool in the my box and ask “What’s this do Papa?”
I was born in 1961.. and got involved in all kinds of machinery .. car engines. Motorcycles ..remote control planes.. electronics .. etc etc from a very early age.. before 10 years old I had done all of this... I am so happy to find your channel.. it brings back memories to me but also makes me so impressed with your attention to detail.. whilst making the explanation as simple as possible... fantastic job Richard!.. great job and hope you continue to make many more such videos!
My dad had one of those. So nice to see you bringing one like it back to life. Brings back many good memories. Those are excellent, reliable machines.
Your editing is very good. Speeding through the monotonous parts, and taking the time where needed, makes for a good video.
Thank! Yes im still experimenting with how to edit and how to make the videos. Good thing you like them. /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery In my view, your editing is very good and I can't really see anything you should change. Keep it the way you keep your machinery: straight forward, effective, and unpolished! Video quality and sound quality are great too.
I am old now but as a boy my friends and I could identify police cars by their engine sound. All the police cars were same make and model and all tuned by the same mechanic who tuned the engines by ear. The mechanic’s name was Kenny and we would say to each other ‘sounds like Kenny’. I’ll bet you could tune by ear yourself if you wanted to. Good job and thank you.
Your little assistant is just adorable. Are we going to see you restoring an old shotgun when she gets older?😆
Things seem to be working fine ,Audio and picture quality are GOOD !
I love that when your daughter came in you just gave her some tools..
A cargo of cuteness! I tuned many of this engine in Volvo Amazons w/ sidedrafts
HI! Yes i had a Amazon once. veru good car. Had a old Duett also. both 1962. /Richard
Picture quality is better with new camera but sound is much much better. I love the tractor.
Great! I will get a mic on my shirt as well. Think that will make it even better. /R
I agree with some of your other contributors in that I always set the flywheel to the timing mark and then loosen and turn the distributor to see the spark or put a light in series with the points. I always dab a little grease on the distributor cam as especially on something that has stood a while the cam may be quite abrasive and wear the points heel and alter the gap and timing , Very well presented as always
Good job. Nice looking tractor. ☝🙂👍
Your work is very good. Top mechanic and video producer. Like how you speed up and slow down. This makes for a quality video. Show what you are producing on the farm if you can too peas.
Video and Audio are great. Love the channel, and it is great the hear the Scandinavian accent of my grandparents.
Video and audio quality excellent.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, GLAD I FOUND THEM THANK YOU !
Your video and audio are very nice. You do a great job showing what you are doing. Your lighting is doing a fine job. Thank You for tour video!
Excellent mechanic,straight talking and no rubbish talk
The grease on the new red tape was a good touch . Nice machine , the way you take care of her , she will last a long time .
Sound is a whole lot better!!
Great work! Love the channel, keep up the good work. Beautiful little girl.
It is good to see that you are training your young assistant!
I know enough about mechanical engines to be dangerous. I do how ever luv watching you do your magic on the machines you own. Thx 🙏🏻 , ♾ d!
Great video. Sound and audio super. Keep them up. Enjoyed so much…
I like what you do and how you do it. Sounds and looks good.
Video quality is very good.
Tractor is great!
Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks! /Richard
Very enjoyable.
Lovely to see your daughter play with real tools. That’s exactly what I did with my kids as well
The sound is much better.
awesome footage.
Brings me back to the days of the Ford-Ferguson tractor. Brings me back to the days when I worked on the farm. The audio / video quality is excellent.
Rhose where good tractors. We had an old Fergie when i was a boy. My father still use it. /Richard
i am a German and it is something for me unusual to see such a Tractor, which is still a "working" Tractor, without a rollbar. In the 60's it became mandatory for German Farmers to retrofit their Tractors with Rollbars. In most cases it was simply three sturdy steelpipes which could be inserted into two Sleeves over the back Axis. It was an easy Retrofit which reduced the accidents especially when you where pulling uphill or on uneven Ground. Often the Farmers don't drive with them around on Roads, but for working on the Fields or in the Woods it's mandatory. We got some of "Museums Tractors" which are not retrofitted. But a lot of them have the Sleeves but simply not the Rollbar inserted to look original.
I enjoy your content Richard; thank you so much. I hope it is worth it for you to do it, because it is very enjoyable to us.
Hi! Yes it is. Only problem is Time. But i will Keep them comming! / Richard
Thanks for triste videos. Always very interesting... even from France....
Its a very nice tractor You have there.
To make the timing light work You need to connect the 12 volt battery to the tractor’s earth.
Without that reference, timing light will not work!
Those brushes are ideal for cleaning saucepans too.
What a great piece of machinery. Quality is great. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for response!
enjoying the series ;-}
Audio was very clear and great video quality too! My number 2 daughter was only 3 and she loved to spend time with me in the workshop. If I asked her to pass me a ½" AF spanner, she had no problems selecting the right one! Your little one brought back the memory! 👌
You will need to change the front tyres if you want good steering on none road surfaces working farm implements as these tyres will just skid and you will be forever using the wheel brakes to force steerage, a simple solution would be to fit chains to the front tyres when farming with an extra heavy middle radial chain this will give the wheels directional traction and save your break bands from wearing out quickly
Not much room to work on the starter! I have two daughters, now 16 and 19, I really miss them being that age!!
Good work
Phil
Nope, kinda tight. But iv'e seen worse. Yes it is a joy when they are interested in engines in so early years. My girls are 1.5 and 3 years now. But time just flies. Soon they will fill up my shop with so much projects of their own that i have to move out i think.
/Richard
Have you brought any guns yet
@@marksbikeexports5123 Im a Vintage gun collector as well. Mostly Husqvarna.
I don't live on a farm or have a need for such a beautiful old machine, but I can't help being envious of that tractor and wish I had one like it.
Audio and video is much improved ! Thank you !
Great to see your little helper in the shop !
Came here to say the same!
She's *ADORABLE!*
So cool when you sat your daughter down with some tools so she could work on her bike in the shop with dad! Seems like my daughter was that same age - she's 14 now. It goes fast, my friend.
I'm an Anderson from Iowa, USA.
Hi! If you have relatives in California or Maine we might be related then. But there was many Anderssons emigrating back then. /Richard
That tractor is awesome. Keep up the great videos. 🇦🇺
This was very well done and very interesting as are all your videos. You seem to have a lot of mechanical savvy for a man your age. You must have started young, probably on a farm. Thank you for your efforts and sharing your work with us.
Glad I stumbled on to your channel....Your tractor motor is much like the engine in my Triumph TR3 (1959)....I was just showing my son the antique Snap-on valve adjusting tool I've had for many years and explaining how it was used....A few minutes ago I called him to see how you adjusted your valves, and then it all made sense to him .....I've been maintaining my TR for 53 years, and my son is 33....It's important to me for him to learn about mechanical things (as well as computers), and channels like yours help me immensely....He has a 1972 Chevelle, so his learning curve is just beginning. haha..........Thanks, John (west coast, Can.)
Hi! Nice to hear that it helps. My doughters are 3 and 5 years old now. I try to show them as much as i can, and they really like machines and engines al ready! Horses also.. but that is a good hobby also! /Richard
That was easy enough, good thing your daughter helped out or it may have been a lot harder. Keep smilin.
Great use of time laps in your videos
Really enjoy the old iron work! Thanks for sharing.
I love this kind of video, your old school knowledge and how well you construct your videos. well done, I'm glad I found your channel.
vdeo and audio TOP !!
Greatly improved sound and video quality!
Hello from us in Holland, the video is exellant. If I see to your video I am surprised how easy you manage the repair of this tractor. You must be an engineer . ( I am a bookkeeper) many succes with you nice working engine. 🌷🌷Jan
Hi! And thank you. Yes, i have worked with engines as long as i have lived. Best regards, Richard.
to dry time a points ign set your flywheel to the 4 degrees,put a spark plug in the # 1 plug wire then loosen the dist. turn the key to run,and slowly turn the dist till a spark jumps the plug gap, tighten dist and you will be balls on every time!
Dear Richard,
So nice to see the tuning up! Typical Volvo tappet noise.
I used to have a Volvo 240 [2.3 litre B-series but with an overhead cam], but as a child in the 1970s we had a 145 Wagon with the 2 litre [B-series] which had almost exactly the same rocker cover and oil filler cap, and the same push-rod arrangement. It always had that typical Volvo tappet clatter. I rather like that.
I remember doing the timing [of the ignition] and we used a timing light on cylinder one on the front of the crankshaft. So nice to see this great old school style being treated with such care.
I would love a tractor like this. I am sixty, and just starting out [after brief period of un-employment] on gardening for wealthy people, and there is a huge demand, so I could almost justify getting a tractor rather than a car! I have never seen a Volvo BM in the UK, but I guess I might find a nice one in Norway or Sweden.
I really enjoyed your videos on the old stationary engines as well.
Your posts bring me a smile in world where there are not nearly enough smiles.
Med glad hilsen fra George Fredrik.
Great video! Love the old style machinery you are always fixing up!
Thank's mate! /Richard
You need a flapper on the exhaust to keep water out. Good videos.
Excellent videography, presentation, content, English and flat cap. 👍
Cheap timing lights are electrostatic voltage pickup instead of magnetic current pickup.
The electrostatic pickup type need a ground return path, so connecting the earth of the external battery to the tractor body will make it work
I wish they still made tractors like this. Very similar to our American tractors of that vintage. I have a 1948 International Super A and a 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 diesel. Great channel
Tractor engines which purr rather than chug have always been uncommon. Only about eleven thousand B M 425 examples were made in five years and they used an engine developed for a decent quality motor car. Even the petrol/gasoline motor used in the Ferguson 20 and similarly car based, is a trifle more "agricultural''.
Nice tractor, it´s a shame i don´t have a need for one myself. I learnt from my father to set the timing the old way as well but i look directly at the point for a spark, easier on an old beetle.
Camera work is the best I have seen. Commentary is about right, not too much. Audio is fine and I use closed captions cause I'm 70 and my hearing is not so sharp. Keep them coming. I am restoring a narrow guage diesel loco to operation, and I have learned a lot from your videos.
Good maintenance, good video and sound with a lovely little daughter helping out.
One beautiful machine! I especially like that you don't try to make them look modern and brand new. It seems a lot of people erase the work that old tractors and such have done. Each dent, scratch, and bit of faded paint tells a story. Can't wait to see it working! 😁
He doesn't want to spend mu h on the hobby so leaving them worn out doesn't cost anything.
video and sound is perfect
Love these old tractors and your work on them is so exciting to watch. Great helper you have too.
i share your quality of parts & china crap is just that! looks like you have a nice shop and a charming little girl! thanks from new subscriber from Montana, USA
Video and sound are good, love your content.
Thanks! /Richard
Great tractor and good deal. Cute daughter too.
Great video sound fine. Excellent
Great episode. Good to see old equipment being given some love. Nice to see your daughter seeing what dad's doing and " mending"her bike with your tools. Great way to get the next generation intrested.
Looks like she is going to be taking over soon! Awesome job and thanks as always!!
Yes, i think i have to build her a shop of her own soon if i want to stay in there! Thanks! /Richard
You need to have a ground wire going to the engine from the battery to get that timing light to strobe.
Liked your finishing touch on that shiny new tape on the wiring harness. Wouldn't look right without some oil on! 👍
Disconnect the ground between the coil and distributor and put a light instead, connected to the battery. When the points open you loose the ground = ignition timing,
the video quality and audio are excellent. Great looking machine. paul
Thanks for replying! / Richard
I enjoyed the video. Sound was good.
Great much better, and having the text is much better. Cheers mate.
Hmm, text? Isn't there any text on my other videos? Didn't make this any different. But thats good. Thanks! /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery No text on many of the older videos. I commented on it once, because with the old microphone the sound was terrible.
Okay. Yes i remember that. Wierd. Hope it stays on future videos.
Love your work 😀 It was wonderful to see you give your daughter some tools to work on her bike 😍
It's great to see your youngsters getting to handle a wrench. I have a picture of my daughter, putting a wrench to my first tractor, back in 1978, when she was 5 years old. Her daughter is now almost 16, and has no interest in "wrenching with Grandpa" now.😥
What a nice tractor-trailer 10 bucks! That looks like a quality machine!
excellent video, thank you
That's a pretty nice old tractor!
YEs, i love it. I use it much now here for small work. / Richard
Nice tractor.
Video and audio quality are very good!!
What a great deal and nice job renewing the machine. Good work indeed!
Sir, you are truly an "Ole School Master Mechanic". Your knowledge of yesterdays motors/equipment is superb. Doctor of "Yesterday's Machinery"
Video and audio are good. Nice to see old machinery that is still capable of hard work put back to good use.
If you park the tractor outside, I hope you have a rain flapper on the exhaust pipe. Or a can to cover it with. Just saying. Really good job bringing old iron back to life !!
It is interesting to watch this and see the differences between a B16 and B20.
About the timinglight : connect the minus from the external 12V battery to the minus of the tractor. That may help the timinglight to work.
Nice machine. 👍🏻🤝🏻
Yes i realized that too! But no succes.. think the whole circuit has to run thru it. But this will be fine anyhow!
@@YesterdaysMachinery an external battery will work just fine for a timing light, just as you had it. The power is just for the flash bulb. I can confirm, because a couple weeks ago, I verified the timing on an Allis Chalmers with a magneto, using a jump starter pack.
The way I was taught to set timing on a John deere with a points distributor, is to turn the flywheel to where you want the spark to fire, and with the distributor real loose, rotate the distributor until it sparks, then clamp it down.
Greetings from Wisconsin, USA! I really enjoy seeing all the "exotic" engineering on the old iron.
Thanks for another interesting blog.
Those old tractors were built to last and were real workhorses… I love seeing them taken care of, loved, and used.
Good work. Thanks again.
I like your videos. Good news on the camera and mic. Funny shake of the head when you said you don’t like plastic. 😊
Very enjoyable all round. Great quality video and audio. Great to see your little girl having a go. My lass is 10 now and just starting to show signs of growing out of messing with stuff in the garage with Dad. Might have to fix that! All the best chap.
Looks and sounds great. Tractor sounds good to
Nicely done, thanks!
Thank you! /R
It's a lovely tractor that I would covert, the audio echos a bit but I think it's the concrete workshop.