- Location
- Northumberland
Six cylinder Deeres like 3130s,3140s are the nicest sounding engines ever! Beautiful quiet purring sound.
Classics Earning their keep.
- Thread starter Tha Ulsterscot
- Start date
- Location
- East Essexshire
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
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
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
Member
- Location
- North Wales
davedb
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
Perkins 6354 sound 
our db 1490 sounds nice aswell lovably whistle to it when pulling hard
our db 1490 sounds nice aswell lovably whistle to it when pulling hard
Hurdle bunter
Member
- Location
- shropshire
smcapstick
Member
- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
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.
- Location
- Limousin
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.
- Location
- Northumberland
What are 445s like compared to 440s? Is yours any good? How many burst bales do you get per 100 bales?
Pilgrimmick
Member
- Location
- Argyll
So eloquent.
- Location
- Northumberland
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.
- Location
- East Essexshire
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!
- Location
- East Essexshire
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
- Location
- East Essexshire
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!
Marshall 100
Member
Our trusty all-rounder get wheels refurbished and four new Good Year Optitrac tyres fitted.
Ready to earn its keep again.
Ready to earn its keep again.
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