Tractorshite

[Datsuncog]

Leyland agricultural shite, as seen by the side of the road yesterday.

No numberplate visible, so dunno how old it might be.

Plenty of patina!

[hairnet]

early 70s to 1982 when they got took over by marshall

 

[twosmoke300]

Yeh - dad had a changeover period yellow Leyland

[martc]

Meanwhile, further East...

Der DDR. And on a cotton plantation in Uzbekistan, 1963 -

[martc]

Harvesting 1950's styleee.

[Dyslexic Viking]

High hour tractors fascinate me and I have read a good article about Devon contractor Michael Tucker and his John Deere 6400 which at the time of the interview had 39,800 hours on it. Adding a link to it       https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/high-hour-heroes-jd-6400

[somewhatfoolish]

On 8/24/2022 at 7:00 AM, martc said:

Harvesting 1950's styleee.

That looks entirely safe*.

[Jerzy Woking]

Was riding up to Melle in France, when I came across this lot by the side of the road in Burguete. There was a Fordson Major parked up, very much like the one I drove for a few weeks back in 1975.

No Massey 135's like mine, but a similar Erbo or two. The 166 was big.

[Dyslexic Viking]

9 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

That looks entirely safe*.

At least it's better than the old threshing mills that were before combine harvesters, which had a habit of ripping people's arms off if I remember correctly.

[warch]

 

Sorry if someone has already posted this, but it's such a good video. It's also a relic of the days when tractors were relatively inexpensive and farms employed quite large numbers of (often mixed ability) drivers. Most modern farms are run by a skeleton staff or even a single individual and tractors now cost as much as a house. 

[Mr Pastry]

2 hours ago, warch said:

 

Sorry if someone has already posted this, but it's such a good video. It's also a relic of the days when tractors were relatively inexpensive and farms employed quite large numbers of (often mixed ability) drivers. Most modern farms are run by a skeleton staff or even a single individual and tractors now cost as much as a house. 

Excellent video- thanks for posting.  Should be required viewing for anyone who "plays" with tractors as I sometimes do.  It certainly made me think.  

[Jerzy Woking]

I have a steep bank separating my garden into two levels. Local farmer flew up the slope in his tractor, whereas I never drove up it in mine for fear of it tipping over

I got him in to make a gentler slope between the two levels, so now I can use mine to maintain the trees and weeds.

[warch]

What's that everybody? You want 3 and a half hours continuous Russian tractor racing (with some racing trucks thrown in)?  

The action* starts about twenty minutes in...

[twosmoke300]

23 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

High hour tractors fascinate me and I have read a good article about Devon contractor Michael Tucker and his John Deere 6400 which at the time of the interview had 39,800 hours on it. Adding a link to it       https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/high-hour-heroes-jd-6400

Interesting .

Something I learnt as an ag engineer was that older tractors used to only clock an hour for every hour the engine was at rated ( pto ) speed . So one used as a yard tractor might take a whole day so clock an hour on the meter.

Whereas modern digital ones clock up hours from just being running and in come cases just ignition on .

[Dyslexic Viking]

18 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Interesting .

Something I learnt as an ag engineer was that older tractors used to only clock an hour for every hour the engine was at rated ( pto ) speed . So one used as a yard tractor might take a whole day so clock an hour on the meter.

Whereas modern digital ones clock up hours from just being running and in come cases just ignition on .

I have also been told that it is like this on older tractors but I think that from the 80's and possibly some the 90's they got accurate hour meters. But I think there is also a difference between the old tractors that some count better than others?

But it is fascinating how many hours many people manage to get on tractors in a short time. Large dairy farms seem to be good at this, a tractor that runs a feed mixer can run 10 to 12 hours every day all year round. Saw on a large Russian dairy farm owned by a German some tractors there ran between 3000 to 4000 hours a year.

[twosmoke300]

Some of the cauli rigs can clock up silly hours over the winter season . 
But almost at idle for most of the day - just the road work at the beginning and end that will be flat out . 

[junkyarddog]

North Norfolk tactorshite.

 

[Blake's Den]

On 9/28/2022 at 9:54 AM, warch said:

 

Sorry if someone has already posted this, but it's such a good video. It's also a relic of the days when tractors were relatively inexpensive and farms employed quite large numbers of (often mixed ability) drivers. Most modern farms are run by a skeleton staff or even a single individual and tractors now cost as much as a house. 

That's a great video, thanks for sharing. From the occasional tractor and JCB driving that I have done I would agree that they are dangerous things. Just because they are slow doesn't mean that you can't get yourself into trouble pretty fast.

[Dyslexic Viking]

This was interesting

 

[500tops]

On 9/28/2022 at 9:26 PM, junkyarddog said:

North Norfolk tactorshite.

 

 

[junkyarddog]

[fairkens]

 

[twosmoke300]

Dozy twat in the DB995 in that video aint gonna tip that one over is he ? 😂

[warch]

There’s a lovely old Massey Ferguson on my running route, probably a 290 from the 1980s. Seems to be permanently on wood chopping duties, but is in excellent order with all the glass still intact. 4wd was quite unusual when this tractor was new. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

A tractor came up for sale in Norway today that I never knew existed and this one is worth sharing. Belarus has made a lot of shit over the years but this seems to be the worst. This is a Belarus 082 and the seller says it is from 1998.

[phil_lihp]

 

The farm I work on now uses a variety of modern stuff for everything but this extremely well-used International is still on site.  Bought secondhand many years ago, it used to be their yard scraping tractor and was eventually relegated to running a stirrer for the slurry pit.  When it started overheating, it was put out to pasture, probably 10-15 years ago.

A few weeks after I took these photos, it was dragged into a nearby field by our JCB telehandler so they could resurface the track.  It'll probably stay there for the foreseeable future, no idea if it would still run but if I ever had the time I'd love to bring over a can of diesel and a battery and give it a go.  I've been told that even when it was used for scraping, it had no brakes!

[warch]

2 hours ago, phil_lihp said:

The farm I work on now uses a variety of modern stuff for everything but this extremely well-used International is still on site.  Bought secondhand many years ago, it used to be their yard scraping tractor and was eventually relegated to running a stirrer for the slurry pit.  When it started overheating, it was put out to pasture, probably 10-15 years ago.

A few weeks after I took these photos, it was dragged into a nearby field by our JCB telehandler so they could resurface the track.  It'll probably stay there for the foreseeable future, no idea if it would still run but if I ever had the time I'd love to bring over a can of diesel and a battery and give it a go.  I've been told that even when it was used for scraping, it had no brakes!

I'd use a really large battery and/or jump leads. My experience is that even really ancient tractors will usually start with enough cranking. I'd probably bung a bean tin over the exhaust in the meantime to stop water ingress. The brakes are probably just horribly out of adjustment, but they were rarely that good even in tip top condition. The bodywork and wheels have seen their fair share of cow shit, absolutely horrendous stuff. 

That's not really that old, early to mid 80s, it originally had a quiet cab. It's quite a powerful tractor, c. 80hp, so a cut above the usual yard scraper fare (Massey 35/135 etc).

 

[phil_lihp]

Yes, boss's dad who still works around the farm said he sold the cab and later wished he hadn't!  That exhaust has been open for most/all the time it's been stood, which I suspect is not good for it.  The remains of the reg plate suggest a Y reg, so 1983-ish.

[EyesWeldedShut]

We used to pump up the tyres, wire rope around the front axle and then tow gently around until they started - that was a generation earlier DB and Ford stuff but there'd always be something to get going around hay/silage time that had been sat for a long time.
Mind you the old boy that owned the place was a tight as the proverbial, every summer  we'd be humping batteries out of tractors and into his shonky old combine to get that started/out of the shed for barley.

[warch]

Tow starting is probably the most foolproof method, though these are 3ton or so in weight so probably better to use another tractor or a loader not a Landrover (ask me how I know). 
 

Very satisfying fixing up derelict old machinery.

ETA. I have seen farms with lots of elderly tractors where none of them were fitted with a battery. They’d park them on a steep hill and bump start them when required.