Welcome to Scotlands only over 401 prostock tractor website. This site is an advertisement for the relatively unknown sport of tractor pulling.
Updates
01/05/2009
Fit all new gears in gearbox, remove 32 t gear to machine extension to reach selector dog. Empty gearbox again to get gear out. Make measurements for spacers.
30/04/2009
Start fitting gears into gearbox, new bearing on rear of layshaft (broken during removal)
25/03/2009
Loaded P nB block in truck to take to engineers with new mains fitted for measuring/checking
22/03/2009
Field work begins- No time for workshop apart from breakdowns
21/03/2009
Fitted new h/brake plates and Hyd pump/filters and new oil to 3120
20/03/2009
Removed h/brake plates and hyd pump from MF 3120
18/03/2009
Finished fitting ply to ramp. Took lorry out workshop and tidied up.
17/03/2009
fit 3/4" ply to rear ramp on scania
16/03/2009
Finish welding gussets and painted ramp/door red oxide primer
15/03/2009
More work on back door. Finish welding new bearers and prep back door for painting. Make gussets for door frame, square up and weld in place
14/03/2009
More work on back door, cut and weld in extra bearers
13/03/2009
More work on back door
12/03/2009
Removed temp ramp bearers from scania back door and lowered 3/4" to insert 3/4" ply flooring.
10/03/2009
Trying to find Urmson transmission in USA for new gears
09/03/2009
Finished hyd plumbing on Scania
08/03/2009
Fitted spares box to shapeforma. Scania back in workshop-fitting hyd pump and started wiring up.
07/03/2009
Working on overhaul Agricola seed drill
06/03/2009
Working on overhaul Agricola seed drill
05/03/2009
Working on overhaul Agricola seed drill
04/03/2009
Finished rebuilding grimme shapeformas
03/03/2009
Started stripping Agricola seed drill
02/03/2009
Rebuilding shapeformas
01/03/2009
Clutch inspected at D. Gall clutch day Inverurie. Clutch passed.
28/02/2009
Fitted new water pump to JD 6800. Sprayed top coat paint on Grimme Shape Forma. (Ford Radiant red)
27/02/2009
Made bracket for mounting hyd valve block and welded to bearer under floor n/s/r and undercoated (Winch/backdoor)
26/02/2009
Fitted hyd hoses for winch. Pulled sides of lorry box in to correct shape for filleting rear door frame corners.
25/02/2009
Made captive nut strips for bolting winch in place. Fitted panels for box under floor and siliconed joints. Bolted winch in place
24/02/2009
cut hole in lorry floor for winch and cut 10mm ply to create box under floor for winch
21/02/2009
straightened top link for 6910, general tidy up, grease loader etc, grease lemken plough and check over. Put top coat of paint on deep ridgers
20/02/2009
washed winch and put in back of lorry for another day
19/02/2009
finished fabricating brackets for tail lift pump and plumbed up hyd winch to pump for a test run, works fine!!
18/02/2009
Making brackets to mount tail lift pump
17/02/2009
Got tail lift pump working and plumbed up to back ramp/door, working great!! Chuffed!
15/02/2009
Finished emptying contents of gearbox and diff, stripped diff for inspection, only wear visible is on the thrust washers.
15/02/2009
Washed under the back of Scania where paint required
15/02/2009
Had a mess about with wiring up tail lift pump, getting there, enthusiasm running out due to toothache!!
09/02/2009
removed halfshaft casings and gearbox belhousing
08/02/2009
made cranking handle for gearbox input shaft and worked out forward speeds 24-1 and 30-1
07/02/2009
Removed wheels, drivers platform and cage etc from backend
05/02/2009
Measuring up lorry for water tanks and lockers and steps
03/02/2009
Removed girdle, pistons and crank, no 6 main bearing on way out, no 7 main showing signs of deterioration, rest of mains r fine,crank seems ok. Big ends all quite good.
31/01/2009
Travelled to Weedon with Ed and AWB for directors meeting and agm, left 6.40am home freuchie 10.45pm
30/01/2009
Travelled to penrith for early start tomorrow journrey to btpa agm. Stayed Redhills travelodge.
27/01/2009
Dismantling engine in garage, all stripped except girdle and crank
25/01/2009
took engine out of tractor and fitted it in frame and took to freuchie and unloaded into garage.
23/01/2009
stripping more of tractor ready to remove engine
20/01/2009
shifted lorry out way got tractor out and washed
19/01/2009
started stripping tractor down, gutted to find extensive corrosion under behind side shields due to fire extinguisher material not cleaned off!
01/10/2008
Unloaded tractor and dropped filter out. Gutted!! Sprinkling of bearing material in filter.
29/09/2008
Fife Show committee meeting
28/09/2008
Left for New Deer @ 7am. Had very good day, tractor running best ever at 40 degrees inj timing. Pulled in big gear second pull for the first time ever 22.5-1.
28/09/2008
Left New Deer 6.30 pm, arrived home 10.30pm.
27/09/2008
Finished getting tractor ready and had quick run tto check for leaks, seems ok. Loaded into lorry. Fuelled up on way home. 6pm loading clothing/food.
26/09/2008
Working on finishing tractor rebuild and tried to start, no luck! Too many late nights, mistake with fuel timing!
21/09/2008
Re-fitted engine and front end. Turbo, oil filter + oil, ex manifold + inlet manifold.
20/09/2008
picked up normal type lip seal for crank rear. Built engine ready to fit.
19/09/2008
Washed, cleaned and fitted crank and girdle.
10/09/2008
Fixed back rest of seat in 6910. Cleaned 2 rods and pistons. Tired, away home at 9pm.
09/09/2008
Washed sump and oil pick up pipes, (burnt foot with steam cleaner right through boot, v sore). Cleaned 2 rods and pistons.
21/07/2008
Took scania up to farm and put in shed.
20/07/2008
8am start. Vbreakfast with Colin and Morven. Detected fault with range change switch on lorry and replaced with s/h switch from Colin, working perfect now!!
20/07/2008
Track at New Deer very wey from recent prolonged rain. Tried pulling with no success, Had to scrape muck off track and try again 1 1/2 hours later, not good
20/07/2008
at all for any of the tractors. P n B lit and ran, but only got about 50m. Big crowd on the bank, rain stayed off. Left showground 6pm. Home 9.30 pm.
20/07/2008
Dod and family helping with tractor.
19/07/2008
Fitted rams to lorry. Loaded tractor + stuff. Took lorry to Freuchie. Meeting 1-2.30pm. Sprayed all carrots. Home showered, loaded lorry with
19/07/2008
food, sleeping stuff etc. left Freuchie 6.50pm. Travelled to new Byth stuck in high range gear box, pretty tricky in Aberdeen. Me, Anna and Jo.
19/07/2008
Visited Colin and Morven and stayed the night. Jo slept in the house
18/07/2008
Washed tractor , fitted panels. Welded brackets on back door fro rams. Home 10.30pm
17/07/2008
Cut and bored extension brackets for lorry back door rams.
16/07/2008
Removed high low splitter valve from scania gearbox due to sticking, cleaned and refitted, seems fine.
13/07/2008
Up 7am. Unloaded tractor, prep and polish. First run = strong full pull. Second run = bit fluffy off the line, but lit, fluffed out at 88.23m
13/07/2008
Loaded up etc, watched SS and mods. Left showground 6.30pm. Stopped at Southwaite for tea 8.30-9pm. Home 11.45pm shower, bed. 360km
13/07/2008
Norrie, Hazel and Duncan at GT Eccey spectating, fairly enjoyed.
12/07/2008
Loaded all food, sleeping stuff, clothes etc. Left Freuchie 10am. Arrived Gt Eccey 3.30pm. Bad fuse connection in lorry on 12v system,
12/07/2008
Managed to fix. Water leak in toilet, gave up on it. Into Black Bull for a few beers and Lancashire Hotpot, Met Anders Moller and directed him back to his digs.
11/07/2008
Another day off work!! More coats of fibreglass on roof join. Silicon all roof joints. Run tractor with new oil. Fitted by-pass to water injection valve
11/07/2008
Fitted by-pass to water injection valve for testing purposes and checked all nozzles for cleanliness.
11/07/2008
Washed tractor and lorry, loaded tractor + stuff. Took lorry to house filling up with £240 of fuel on the way.
11/07/2008
Cleaning living accomodation in lorry. Bed 11pm. Knackered!!!
10/07/2008
Half day from work. More fibreglass on roof join on lorry. Cleaned P n B oil filter. Picked up hyd fittings for water bypass.
10/07/2008
Fitted steel spacer sheet to last 300mm of lorry roof where original roof no longer reached. Refitting tie down brackets through floor to chassis
09/07/2008
Wiring up rear lights / marker lights on lorry. Fitting 3/4 ply to back door and undercoating steelwork
08/07/2008
Fibre glassing join on lorry roof hump. Brian Mercer changing clutch master cylinder on scania
07/07/2008
Welding temporary bearers into lorry back door/ramp
06/07/2008
Designed, cut and welded on brackets to back door for rams
05/07/2008
Welding higes to back door of lorry and fabricating brackets to fit rams to lorry chassis.
04/07/2008
Welded bushes/hinges and gusseting to rear crossmember of lorry for fitting backdoor
02/07/2008
Welded uprights into place for lorry back door.
29/06/2008
Welded rear light bar/cow catcher to rear of lorry
28/06/2008
Brian Mercer checking over scania for MOT
27/06/2008
Made bearers for lorry back doors
21/06/2008
Cutting steel for bearers for back door
16/06/2008
Tidied up workshop
10/06/2008
Tidied up workshop
09/06/2008
Fife Show greetin meeting
06/06/2008
Brechin show pulling, good event, great weather, tractor going well. Travelled up with 3120 and DCC low loader.
05/06/2008
Washed and loaded tractor, changed big wheels onto 3120. Finished 10.30pm.
04/06/2008
Fixing oil and fuel leaks on P n B, new gaskets on oil filter flange, still leaking. New 2kg fire extinguisher from Jim Robb for P n B.
01/06/2008
Travelled to Kirkbrdie with Ewan Cameron spectating , pulling rained off after 3 tractors, home 5pm
27/05/2008
Introduced Charlie and Ewan to each other, Charlie going to drive Smokey II
03/04/2008
Fitted repaired fuel injection pump fom Chris wilkinson and got tractor running with washer on rack to reduce fuel to 800cc/1000
Finding it very difficult to have free time to work on tractor.
Engine was stripped in December for inspection, good job to, as no 5 main had been picking up a bit of heat from the thrust bearings and was just about to cause real trouble. Thankfully no obvious damage to shaft. Crank will be cleaned up and fitted with new bearings. The rest of the motor will be going back as per 2007. New engine oil pump was fitted during last season which has boosted oil pressure enormously to comfortably 100psi when hot. We are thinking that we need to preheat the engine oil like we do with the water prior to starting the engine, we have a few ideas to follow up on this. The only real change for 2008 will be the fitting of a hypermax water injection valve, as we discovered last year at gt eccey the old max simpson valve is sticking.
We now have an engine stand for working on the engine while it is out of the tractor (pics in gallery)
Also have done a bit of work to our scania transporter. Living accommodation is internally finished, needing to organise a clean water and waste water tank to sling on the chassis to complete the job.
I have been working on the back of the truck during feb,9pics in gallery) when I have beavertailed the floor down about 9” at the back and raised the roof of the box 2’ to let the tractor in with the cage on. So we now have a speed bump on the roof of the lorry box!
The lorry chassis had to be replaced where it had been cut away to fit a tail lift (now redundant), all in all took quite a bit of time to sort out the steel work at the back, but worst of all getting the back 8’ prepped and repainted !!
However lorry is on hold just now while day work and farm work (evenings ) take precedent. Broken weather is holding up carrot drilling , snow today has halted work again.
I need to start putting pistnbroke engine back up to get the tractor ready for promotional photos for fife show, also new side panels need fabricated to meet new regs!
Clutch was inspected in Feb and passed with a clean bill of health.
01/08/07
After the turbo blew up at the Fife show we have been busy repairing the damage to the head and inlet manifold etc.
Interestingly when testing the inlet manifold after repairing the damage, we discovered that it was far from airtight and seems to have been like this all along. Hopefully having repaired the leaking manifold we will scavenge some extra boost pressure.
We are also working away at our hauler beginning to fit out the living accomodation with the help of a friend.
We intend to be at Keith show and Gt Eccelston if all goes well.
Just back from a holiday in Missouri, U.S.A. Where we attended a Grand National Tractor Pull in Montgomery City and saw some excellent pulling, Including some Super Semi Trucks. Photos of this event should follow soon.
