Classics Earning their keep.

[jendan]

135s are good tractors but they sound bloody awful!

Not many diesels sound good, really. Maybe a big Deere, a Leyland turbo etc.

Six cylinder Deeres like 3130s,3140s are the nicest sounding engines ever! Beautiful quiet purring sound.

 

[bovrill]

Six cylinder Deeres like 3130s,3140s are the nicest sounding engines ever! Beautiful quiet purring sound.

Until the hydraulic pump donut goes hard, and starts rattling!

Having put 10K+ hours on an IH1056, I can vouch for the lovely sound of their engine.
They have a 'whistle' built into the exhaust pipe, because I know someone who rebuilt one, and transferred it into the new one to keep the sound the same.
It's the only tractor I've known that still purred with no silencer and exhaust pipe on!

 

[DeeGee]

135s are good tractors but they sound bloody awful!

Not many diesels sound good, really. Maybe a big Deere, a Leyland turbo etc.

Infidel!!! You speak with forked tongue!!! Wash your mouth out with carbolic soap and say three Hail Marys!!!!!!
135's are one of the best sounding engines ever made!!!
If you don't obey the above you will be damned, and spend your life forever wailing, gnashing your teeth and burning in Hell!!

 

[Selectamatic]

If you don't obey the above you will be damned, and spend your life forever wailing, gnashing your teeth and burning in Hell!!

Probably better than listening to a 135...

 

[timff]

Good sounds: 6 cylinder JD (agree with 3140 etc..as stated above). DB 996 sounded nice when I used one for a week in 1980 but not very revvy strangely. 4 cylinder 35
Bad sound: Ford 3000 at PTO speed. What a clatter...working in a 1970s Ford safety cab was not a nice place to be

 

[davedb]

Perkins 6354 sound our db 1490 sounds nice aswell lovably whistle to it when pulling hard

 

[Hurdle bunter]

 

[timff]

Forgot another good one: Ford 8100

 

[smcapstick]

Infidel!!! You speak with forked tongue!!! Wash your mouth out with carbolic soap and say three Hail Marys!!!!!!
135's are one of the best sounding engines ever made!!!
If you don't obey the above you will be damned, and spend your life forever wailing, gnashing your teeth and burning in Hell!!

Don't get me wrong - I really like 135s! I just don't let my approval of them cloud my aural judgement, that's all.

 

[Muck Spreader]

They were good reliable pokey little tractors, they just happened to be FFing horrible to use. A day using one and you felt like you had been raped by a pneumatic drill.

 

[jendan]

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What are 445s like compared to 440s? Is yours any good? How many burst bales do you get per 100 bales?

 

[Pilgrimmick]

They were good reliable pokey little tractors, they just happened to be FFing horrible to use. A day using one and you felt like you had been raped by a pneumatic drill.

So eloquent.

 

[jendan]

Good sounds: 6 cylinder JD (agree with 3140 etc..as stated above). DB 996 sounded nice when I used one for a week in 1980 but not very revvy strangely. 4 cylinder 35
Bad sound: Ford 3000 at PTO speed. What a clatter...working in a 1970s Ford safety cab was not a nice place to be

We had a brand new Ford 3000 with duncan cab in 1970,for a traded in C reg 4000.What a screamer! Before the days of ear muffs,as an enthusiastic 12 year old kid i used to stick cotton wool in my ears.

 

[bovrill]

We had a brand new Ford 3000 with duncan cab in 1970,for a traded in C reg 4000.What a screamer! Before the days of ear muffs,as an enthusiastic 12 year old kid i used to stick cotton wool in my ears.

As a kid I had a sack cushion so I could sit on the front unit of our Doe 130, so I could pretend I was driving as my father cultivated.
I blame my deafness partially on spending so many hours sat square between two Ford 4000 engines!

 

[timff]

Surely 6X Series 5000 engines?

 

[bovrill]

Surely 6X Series 5000 engines?

I thought that was the 150.
I'm not sure, I was about 7 or 8 when it went, and I must admit I always remembered it as a D120, until someone told me that didn't exist, and it must have been a 130

 

[timff]

Yep hi bovrill. The 150 was the 6Y series post 1968 being two 5000s of the force series with decals down the bonnet as opposed to the shark gills of your 6X triple d. Be nice to have it now!

 

[bovrill]

Yep hi bovrill. The 150 was the 6Y series post 1968 being two 5000s of the force series with decals down the bonnet as opposed to the shark gills of your 6X triple d. Be nice to have it now!

Yes it would!
It was definitely the pre-Force.
It was a hire one from someone who had half a dozen, and broke them all for scrap in the end
I sometimes wonder if we had an unusual one, as living about 10 miles from Does, and about 10 miles the other way from George Pryor, there were a few odd ones around here. A neighbour had a 5000 on the front and a 7000 on the back of one!
I'm still sure ours was smaller than most!

 

[timff]

Very interesting. I'm on Essex Suffolk border and George Pryor showed me over his farm at bradwell on sea about 10 years ago. Sadly he died about 2 years ago. An extraordinary machine that was extinct once countys and muir hills got going.

 

[Marshall 100]

Our trusty all-rounder get wheels refurbished and four new Good Year Optitrac tyres fitted.
Ready to earn its keep again.