Tractor restoration vlogger
I’m Linda. I restore old farm tractors in my barn, film every job, and sell log books, checklists and two video courses for anyone starting their own.
Just found one
Before you buy a single part, walk around it slowly. Read the serial plate, photograph everything and write down what you see. You are not fixing anything yet, you are getting to know it.
Photograph it before you touch it.
In the barn
Take one thing off at a time and photograph it first. Put every bolt in a labelled bag and write down where it came from. A tractor is easy to take apart and very hard to remember.
Label every bolt before you take the next one.
Engine apart
You have the parts clean on a tray. Now put them back in the opposite order, slowly, and keep your log open on the bench. Do not hurry the last bolts.
Check your photos before every step.
Ready to start
The paint is dry, the fuel is clean and the engine is back together. Check everything once more, then turn it over slowly. If it does not catch, stop and listen, then try again.
Walk around it one last time before the key.
Online course
Video course · 7 lessons
Seven lessons that follow one tractor from the barn door to its first start.
Digital downloads
Download as soon as you pay. Yours to keep.
PDF · 40 pages
A printable log for every part, job and date, from first look to first start.
PDF · 6 pages
Photograph, label and bag every bolt so it goes back where it came from.
PDF · 14 pages
How I laid out a workbench, a light and a parts shelf in a cold barn.
Printed to order
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
About
I grew up on a farm with a red tractor older than I was, and I learned to hold a wrench before I learned to drive. When my father stopped using it I took it into the barn and promised to get it running, and I kept that promise two winters later.
Since then I have restored seven tractors, mostly slowly and on weekends. I am not a mechanic by trade. I take a lot of photographs, I write down every bolt, and I film the whole job, including the times when it does not go well.
Each Thursday there is a new video: an engine, a record, a first start or a morning in the barn. The guides and courses are what I would have wanted to read before I took the first bolt out.
Newsletter
One letter every Thursday: this week’s job from the barn, a part I found and one thing I would do differently.