NUFFIELD NECESSITY

A friend of mine had a friend whose brother had sadly passed away and his widow was left with a workshop of equipment. It was old but still very useful and was to be dumped in a skip as she was going into care. As regular readers will know I hate anything going to waste and for a small consideration, it was ours. All we had to do was collect it.

To cut a long story short, the plan was to unload the machinery once home with the Cameron Gardener rear loader that is fitted to the Nuffield 4/60. About two weeks before this, I had started the Nuffield and found the clutch to be stuck. It hadn’t moved during the lockdown. After starting it in gear I drove it up through the woods with my foot on the clutch pedal, occasionally