So who's into tractors

[68-500]

Since we are talking detroit 2 strokes...I found a picture of my cousins homemade tractor.
8v92ta in the front 450hp
8v92 in the back 380hp
13 speed on each with two pairs of everything in the cab. It held 900 gallons of fuel in its home made fuel tanks. I think they built in the late 70s.

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830 hp what kind a f equipment did they build to pull behind it. There certainly wasn’t anything commercially build that big.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

830 hp what kind a f equipment did they build to pull behind it. There certainly wasn’t anything commercially build that big.

He had a Big G 55' disk with 28" blades. The wings folded twice. It was one heavy Sob. It pulled it easily. The hard pull was a 5 shank ripper that was meant to go 5' deep. The shanks were some thick steel. It was built in California to work in the Salt on the bottom. He used it to bring soil up into the blow sand from the Missouri river bottom. He bought a Big Bud 525/50 new...it would not pull the ripper unless they used two 4 wheel drives hooked together. They put a Steiger Tiger in front of the Big bud. I think when the ripper was used in California it was pulled by 2 D8 or 2 D9s cats
He loved big stuff, I got to run his dozer a bit. Fiat Allis Hd-41b. He was quite a guy. RiP
Below is identical to his dozer and Big Bud. He was 87 when he passed. It took him a 1/2 hr to climb up to the cab at that age..but he was a happy farmer once he got to the seat.Lol
He never retired.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

I can see that floor jack sweating from here. I bet it said uff da when you put the frontend back on!

Yeah that picture was taken right when we took it off the bottle jack so we could slide the front frame / wheels in position. I was sweating that maneuver myself just like when we split the tractor for the first time. It was not as bad as I thought it would be having never done it before.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

This is a stock Oliver with a Detroit diesel, I believe 2-cycle diesel. Can’t imagine being in the field with this 8-10 hours a day. Apparently you have to these maxed out as they have a hard time recovering. I go every year to watch this tractor. Hurts your ears.

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Detroit Diesels are insanely screaming loud at full song but also very powerful. Oliver had several models with them.

I married a farmers daughter. The John Deere memorablia around the house is real. I would like an old tractor, but my brother in law will not cut loose with one of the 20 antique tractors around the farm.
Coolest one is the 1929 Case model A with a 500ci 4 cyl.
Then there's the Case twins, sequential serial numbers, one bought new by grandpa, one bought 55years later at a farm sale 200 miles from selling dealer.
Then @hunt2elk
Saddest demise of a tractor is me unloading scrap next to a guy unloading his grandpas 1953 golden jubilee ford.
His dad had pulled the bodywork off to repaint, after a misguide trip orange. Then died. Son was cleaning up
Complete, but apart, good tires , ran.
Dumped for scrap. I saved a engine cover side for wall art. Scrap yard "owned" anything that hit the ground. Side cover was still in the truck, so I could get it.

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Man that sucks, Golden Jubilees are great tractors like all the older tractors were and regardless of make still unbeatable solid machines to this day just like our Mopars !

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

I love going to these things

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

From an engine show in Hinsdale NH this past weekend….