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What's the best way to learn how to restore tractors?

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    #32
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,992 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    timple23 wrote: »
    Start with a car first? Would be much cheaper to buy a banger for 100-200 euro?

    I wouldn't bother with a car. You'd probably need a pit or a lift to get at everything effectively. At least a tractor is high off the ground to start with.
    A tractor could be left 50 or more years out in the open, with a tree growing up through it and still be restorable, a car could be fcuked after a decade lying idle outdoors and end up being a money pit.
    Depending what it is, a lot of older tractors with a following have brand new replacement parts you can simply get off the shelf, even tinwork if that's too far gone.


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    #33
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,565 ✭✭✭maidhc


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    I wouldn't bother with a car.

    Nor would I. Cars are pigs to work on compared to tractors and a banger is always a banger. At least if you buy a tractor and make it good it will always sell, and always be useful.

    I did up a Ford 3600 when I was about 16. My doing up involved a wire brush, a tin of paint and isopon as required, but I was a proud as punch.

    20 odd years later I am still at stuff, pretty much the same idea but less Isopon. Still get the same feeling when a machine is done and the added bonus is pretty much all the farming is done now with machines I restored (and it the fact they are working machines gives me the legitimate excuse not to seek out mirror paint finishes!)


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