The Tractor Thread

[Revoltingest]

Anything about tractors?
Post it here!

I used to drive an "unstyled" IHC Farmall just like the new one in this video.
It was an F12. Of course, it wasn't so new in the 60s & 70s.

 

[ChristineM]

I learned to drive at 6 years old on one of these.

 

[Subduction Zone]

We used to have an old John Deere. When started it would constantly sound like it was going to quit running, but it rarely did; The idle speed would vary a bit. More so than this one:

And skip forward to about the 23 minute mark.

 

[Subduction Zone]

For lighter jobs, or if a front end loader was needed we also had a Ford Jubilee like this one. No rumble seat on ours:

 

[JustGeorge]

I have no real tractors... but my youngest strongly believes that I see a chirotractor, and will not be talked out of this position.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I always loved the classic steam tractor.

Unrivaled raw power!

 

[Stevicus]

I've heard that a tractor beam is quite useful.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[ChristineM]

I have no real tractors... but my youngest strongly believes that I see a chirotractor, and will not be talked out of this position.

Hmmm, not a tractor anything but it seem we drive under a fly-a-duck when we go to into town

 

[PureX]

A friend on my Dad's that lived down the road used to collect European Ford Tractors, and ONLY European Ford Tractors. At last count he had four of them, but that was some years ago. I'm thinking five or six by now.

But his did not look like the one in this picture. Because he ABHORRED the idea of painting them up like they were brand new. He would get them running like a Swiss watch, but he would NOT clean and paint them up.

My Dad had a classic 1950's Farmall tractor at the time, and it was all clean and painted bright red and looked like it was brand new. And his buddy would come up the road on his Ford tractor and point at my Dad's tractor and ask him, "does that old whore of yours even run?" But I have to say, that old Farmall my dad had was a beaut! (below)

 

[Revoltingest]

The tractor I'd most like to have is the Goold Shapley & Muir
(out of Canuckistan). I have a portable engine version of this.
Alas, the tractors are worth many times more, so I'll not own
one. They use a very costly to manufacture dual fuel (gasoline
& kerosene) opposed twin with sideshaft actuated valve gear,
& dual overflow type carburetors. Hopper cooling on a tractor
is an outrageous choice.

My engine...

 

[Valjean]

Ukrainian tractors are known for their remarkable torque,
and the farmers for being somewhat light-fingered....

Don't these Russkis know how to use a parking brake?

 

[Revoltingest]

Ukrainian tractors are known for their remarkable torque,
and the farmers for being somewhat light-fingered....

Don't these Russkis know how to use a parking brake?

Russian soldiers don't
appear to be well trained.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Lombard Twin has no survivors.
It had 2 engines, one powering each track.
But surprisingly, this film footage still exists.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The tractor I'd most like to have is the Goold Shapley & Muir
(out of Canuckistan). I have a portable engine version of this.
Alas, the tractors are worth many times more, so I'll not own
one. They use a very costly to manufacture dual fuel (gasoline
& kerosene) opposed twin with sideshaft actuated valve gear,
& dual overflow type carburetors. Hopper cooling on a tractor
is an outrageous choice.

My engine...

Now your talking.

Power and simplicity.

I'm a steam punk at heart.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Russian soldiers don't
appear to be well trained.

I'm wondering how the woman snipers are?

 

[Revoltingest]

Now your talking.

Power and simplicity.

I'm a steam punk at heart.

Not that much power....only 22.5 hp.
I like low speed power...hearing each individual power
stroke. And seeing the mechanisms in operation.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm wondering how the woman snipers are?

I don't know if Russia has any these days.
It's not like WW2.

 

[Valjean]

Not that much power....only 22.5 hp.
I like low speed power...hearing each individual power
stroke. And seeing the mechanisms in operation.

Horsepower is sensationalist bunkum, designed to impress customers.
Horsepower is is of interest only on the racetrack. It reflects only high RPM power, up near redline, where 99% of vehicles never venture.

Low speed "power," ie: torque, is what you actually feel when you press the accelerator, and it's virtually the only consideration in a vehicle designed to pull things at low speeds.

 

[Revoltingest]

Horsepower is sensationalist bunkum, designed to impress customers.
Horsepower is is of interest only on the racetrack. It reflects only high RPM power, up near redline, where 99% of vehicles never venture.

Low speed "power," ie: torque, is what you actually feel when you press the accelerator, and it's virtually the only consideration in a vehicle designed to pull things at low speeds.

I see that you're not an engineer.
Modern tractors have more horsepower with
smaller engines that run at higher rpm. Yet they
pull harder. This is what transmissions do.
But big slow engines sound better to me.

But I also like this "high speed" engine
that a friend is running. (It's mine.)