What I previouly considered to be only a small work (see part 5 of the restauration of my Super BWD-6), would finally take a lot of more time than expected.

First, I dismanrled all the small remouvable things like discs and real wheel system. Then, I cleaned very intensively the whole plough with the high pressure jet to remove all the rust, which gave a very good result. I was afraid of cleaning it with a sand jet machine, because at that moment, I didn't know at all what would be able to be dismantled and what wouldn't. So I didn't want sand in the articulations or in the turning parts of the plough, in case I couldn't dismantle them later.

Thereafter I inspected all moving and rotating parts. All discs were demantled, and yet, there was more use than I had expected. All axes were completely worn, and also the bearinghouse was quite worn out. So the housings needed rectification, and I made new fitting axes diameter 16. One disc was also completely split, and repaired by welding, so the disc was completely torn. I coundn't do anything about it, so it's still so. I had rather to say that the whole disc is in bad condition: the arm is a little bit folled up, and the fixation clamb is deformed; certainly it has been damaged that way by a great stone. In fact, a complete new disc, arm and clamp would be necessary.

Next came the rear wheel. It's a pivoting wheel, that is used to lift the plough at the end of every row. It looked very bad: the cover of the hube was broken away, so earth and dust could penetrate it. The consequences were important: the hub was worn out for several milimeters, the shaft of diameter 1"1/2 (38.1 mm) was worn in for about 10 milimeter. So I welded it up as good as possible to the right diameter. Then I rectified the hub to a inside diameter of 42.5 so that I could pull 2 bronze bearing bushes. So, the excessive clearance was compensated, and there was a better bearing at the same time. I welded also a new cover with greasing point at the end of the hub.

I also would like to put 2 bronze bearing bushes in the pivoting device, but I wasn't able to dismantle the big screwnut on the top of the shaft, even not after warming it up. So, the only thing I could do was making free the grease chanal and putting a new point to grease in the housing.
The lifting funtion of the rearwheel was done by a big bolt. This one was completely worn in, and blocked in the housing. So that, it had damaged the wholes in the two rear plates. So I welded 2 little bushes in the plates to obtain again the good clearance for the bolt. After warming up the housing, I could remove the old bolt, clean up its housing and put in a new one.
As the rearwheel had some difficulty to pivote, the rear plates were torn, so they needed to be straighten too.

Came finally the front wheels. The right one, that also had the lifting device in it, was quite good: the clearance was good, and the clutch was also in good condition. Only, when dismantling the dustcap, I broke it completely - left treath, you know, and not expecting it - so, a new one needed to be made. Again several hours of work.
On the left frontwheel, there was much more clearance, but the shaft was OK. So I rectified the inside of the hub to a greater diameter, and put also two bronze bearing bushes. Because the wheel was to big to put it in a turninglathe, I had to do the rectification by hand, so that also took a lot of time.

Technically, I thought the plough was in good condition again, so I could start the cleaning work before painting. Luckily, the chassis is built in a kind of wrought steel that resists very well against rust, so the cleaning was rather easy and took not too much time. In one day the whole plough was ready for painting.
What took my attention when cleaning was, apart from the red colour, the great part of blue colour that I found everywhere on the plough, and I couldn't find any logic in it.
On the French site 'les Tracteurs Rouges' I had seen in the division 'Catalogues' that both colours where used, but the dominant colour was red, and the wheels were always in broken white.
So, not knowing what colour to use, I painted the whole plough in red, except for the wheels. If that is the right combination, I really don't know.
 
 

I also needed to make a waggon to transport it. That also took several days of work, but I really needed it to go to some exhibitions or even for going to the fields of my brother or brother-in-law. I made it as light as possible, for I wanted to put it not only behind my tractor, but also behind my car, so, the weight of plough and waggon might not exceed 750 kgs.

Carl DEVLIES.
Wevelgem, 18/07/2004.