For those BB members who have been following the long running saga of my D6 9U restoration, you will know it's been a step learning curve for me over the last 3 years (& 1000 manhours of hardwork) with many pitfalls along the way.

The deadline of the Castle Cement working weekend at Ketton was rapidly looming and I was having problems in getting the CCU ready in time for the show. Fortunately fellow Chapter 2 Member Tony Coates came to my assistance and got the CCU repaired (damaged brake band, destroyed fair lead sheave bearings, perished oil seals, worn shaft on LH drum) and mounted ready for the show over 2 long Sunday's. (Show subsquently cancelled owing to the wet weather 4 days before event!)

The attached pictures, show the master at work!

She,s looking good fellows!, is she a quiet early one ?as i notice the spark plug higher in pony head?. Serial#?. I have a 1953 9u . I still often do full days work with her, great tractor. Regards, Peter. downunder!

Hi David,
CCU looks really good on there, along with the rest of the tractor. Disappointing that the objective goal show was canceled.......but there will be others.

Hats off to Tony for coming to the rescue. He is going to be spoiled after working on all those nice clean freshly painted parts:)

Got a question.......how and who had the lovely task of welding up that broken draw bar attachment bracket???

D6 Pete - it is an early tractor 9U1447 1948

OM - The broken drawbar attachment bracket, was welded by another Chapter 2 member John Burbidge. We did the repair whilst the LH track frame was removed to provide better access. John lives locally and has been by technical advisor throughout the long restoration process.

looks good cat 60, too bad on the cancelled fun days but it would be better then getting the cat all dirty, LOL

thansk

Hi David,
as usual I only get the rough jobs ???? . John B, getting all the good stuff to do, what a month this has been , it has #issed down with rain nearly every day, the job I am working on at this moment is on a D8H 68a dozer that is owned by the " Rough Gang " (these lads work like dogs, if you are no good at your job, God help you) it has a knackerd torque converter,a damaged engine mount ,also a cracked main chassis frame, so I have had to remove the torque,flywheel, back casing from motor, then weld up /plate the near torn through chassis, sort the engine mount including removing busted bolts, then build up a good torque converter out of umteen bits of half robbed torques,all done in the #issing rain in a swamp of crap,the site I am working on has a fenced off compound with a workshop with 2 big German Shepperd dogs in which I am not allowed to enter, I asked the owner where the dogs are yesterday, he told me inside the building as they dont' come out in this weather, as I paddled past the lovely workshop heading towards the now Swamped in D8, I have some brilliant pics of some jobs I have done in the last 2 months I will post soon under the Bill Glenn heading,
tctractors.
PS. who painted my hair grey?????

Tony,
I finally completed the jockey spring change over yesterday morning in the p****** rain.

I had to slacken off the rear belly plate in the end, as the pins holding the jockey springs in place, were fouling the stiffening plate on the inside of the belly plate.

What a job, just wish I'm gotten them the right way round in the first instance! Especially trying to get the pins on the saddle bracket back into position, with the tension applied from the springs.

I had hoped to fire it up afterwards, but decided to postpone when the rain became heavier.

Hello David and Tony, machine is looking good.Getting fed up of this rain.Just done 4 twelve hour nights,even my wet weather gear had packed up.I went to the barbers last week,when I left all my hair had turned grey. Sprocket project seems to be going well.Rain won't bother him.