Description From long-term ownership; well-maintained with many new parts; recent new tyres and hydraulics; PTO; split exhaust; good running order; a super example of this agricultural icon Affectionately known as the ‘Little Grey Fergie’, it is no exaggeration to say that Harry Ferguson’s lightweight TE20 transformed farming when it came out in 1946.

Small and manoeuvrable, the Fergie’s trump card was the revolutionary ‘Ferguson System’ – an ingenious variable hydraulic control for plough depth which effectively transferred the ‘pull’ of the plough into ‘downforce’ over the rear wheels, allied to a brilliant three-point hitch.

The latter allowed implements to be directly mounted onto the tractor, working as one unit, a significant departure from earlier tractors that merely towed equipment.

The combination of these two systems allowed the small TE20 to do the job of machines weighing five times as much.

This had profound benefits for small and medium farms, which previously relied...