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charlie2
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510 perkins v8 i cant think where i saw one it wasnt working just a static display sure it was around 140/150 bhp and only around 8 litre i thought it would be more it did look huge.
Bri963
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They did up the power for wagons. They’d stopped production years before I joined the company. As good as they were, they were expensive to build, especially the last few years, when they were sold at a loss. My brother was working at Perkins when the Fletton factory ”mysteriously“ went up in smoke after a canteen fire, and that was the end.
pettsy
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A mate of mine had this ex Swedish army 1080. It was a big old tractor but not particularly nimble for a 2WD, and a fixed hitch so a pain to hitch trailers!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Ford put the V8 Perky in a D series artic unit - I swapped one once for a guy I knew, over a weekend- -had a tendency to hunt on a steady throttle
Quattromike
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I got a pleasant surprise in the post today, I've had a Massey Ferguson 1155 sitting in the shed for half a dozen years and always complained in the summer when the vintage tractors go past on their run that I can't take it out as I didn't get a V5 when I bought it. However I sent off a V62 I think it was to apply for one a good few weeks ago and today the V5 arrived 
no excuses now
It's got the V8540 Perkins in it .
no excuses now It's got the V8540 Perkins in it .
Bri963
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The “Ford” V8 in the D series was a Perkins. That hunting was a known issue on some.
hiluxman
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Over the weekend I donated some time and diesel to one of the local inner city farms that's run by volunteers and kids with special needs ect ect.
Anyway my pond building customer asked if I could help out. He had heard about the pond the farm and kids had built earlier in the year had been vandalised which included them slashing the lining too.
A few suppliers had chucked in for the materials too.
Plenty of volunteers to help. Matt and dillon cracked it off in 2 days.
Not often I get involved with doing things for free but when you meet the people who run it and the teenagers who work/study/relax there it makes you feel its worth while.
Anyway my pond building customer asked if I could help out. He had heard about the pond the farm and kids had built earlier in the year had been vandalised which included them slashing the lining too.
A few suppliers had chucked in for the materials too.
Plenty of volunteers to help. Matt and dillon cracked it off in 2 days.
Not often I get involved with doing things for free but when you meet the people who run it and the teenagers who work/study/relax there it makes you feel its worth while.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
what breed is the grab Alex?
hiluxman
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Not sure how I've posted it in the steam rally thread...thought I'd posted it in the today's job.
It's a jb equipment grab Gra, had it since Oct 24, it goes on my 2t machine mainly. Weighs about 70kgs but the little e10 picked them rocks up and they are quite a dense stone.
Bri963
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Top man. Does me good reading about people on here doing jobs like this. Definitely worthwhile, Alex, not everything has a monetary value.
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