I knew little of the older JD diesel tractors until one day when I was in the generator business and we had a generator rental to deliver. When we did so there was no way to get it off the Landoll trailer we had delivered it on. It was a 350kW unit that weighed about 10,000 pounds. We sold it to a small dirt track oval raceway outside of Muncie, IN that was going to use it to power lighting for night races. This place was in the boonies and as a result did not have the required three phase utility power available for the lighting.
So the guy goes running off and comes back a few minutes later with a guy driving this old tricycle style John Deere with a big flywheel on the side. He chains it up to the skid base of the generator, opens the throttle and drops the clutch. This thing barely grunted while it drug a 10,000 pound piece of equipment off the Landoll and across the grass to it’s resting place. When I got closer and had a look it was a horizontal two cylinder with s stroke that had to be measured in feet, or so it seemed. Had gasoline starting cups on it, too. It was a really cool tractor. -D > On Apr 29, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes the grey & red,Ford tractors,were 8N's. They had light front ends & would > flip in hilly fields of NE PA. Hill farmers,used John Deere because tricycle > front ends,were heavier- some even added,weights to front end > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 8:55 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > A lot of the farmers I worked with as a kid had the old Ford tractors - the > ones that were red and gray (N series?) I can recall driving more than my > share of those around, and they seemed quite bulletproof and strong. A few of > the more prosperous farmers had the blue models. I don’t know if they were > any better, but they seemed to be nicer in some respects from what I can > recall. > > > > > On Apr 29, 2020, at 8:49 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > > <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > > > Beware of leaking injectors or feed lines on JD's that have them inside > > the engine itself. My Dad's 'new' JD was basically a lemon, and ended up > > filling the crankcase with diesel fuel before needing expensive engine > > work. It was also somewhat puny compared to the older tractors he was > > used to. > > > > He would have been far better served buying an older, bigger JD with > > a more traditional engine construction. The lemon was turbo'd. Lots of > > horsepower (on paper), but in practice fairly underwhelming for a lot of > > uses. > > > > It's my brother's problem, now. > > > > Nothing we had pulled/grunted like the old Moline UTS. Heavy, redline > > at 1200 RPM. 40-odd HP, but torque that would rip things in half. And > > an appetite for gasoline to match! > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
