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Volvo Industrial Tractor
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bassetts
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Thanks Mate for comment
Cowabunga
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That brings back memories of the 1970's where I spent hours driving one of those or a very very similar model, towing a vibrating loader while constructing an above ground irrigation reservoir. It was used as a general farm loader for buckraking silage, feeding silage, private road construction and everything.
A bit of a lazy and cumbersome beast though. Not much power and its climbing ability was 'steady'. Steering lock very poor.
A bit of a lazy and cumbersome beast though. Not much power and its climbing ability was 'steady'. Steering lock very poor.
Cowabunga
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A link would be good. There's lots of similar videos to choose from.thanks Cowabunga if you could please go over to YouTube and like the video
You do know that you can post the Youtube video link to work directly from your post in this forum?
Cowabunga
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Done. Very interesting.
I thought that the one I used was a four cylinder of about 80hp. It couldn't have been as big as this and in 1975 it certainly wasn't new. More like six or seven years of age, so almost certainly a late 1960's machine. Very very similar though.
The farm had a few irrigation reservoirs fed from a pond that caught water from a stream. The year before I was there, someone had run it into the pond to dredge it and it had got stuck, with the water a fair way up the front door. The driver evacuated through the back window. No mobile phones back then [or for at least another decade] so he had to do a bit of deep paddling to fetch a tow tractor or three.
I thought that the one I used was a four cylinder of about 80hp. It couldn't have been as big as this and in 1975 it certainly wasn't new. More like six or seven years of age, so almost certainly a late 1960's machine. Very very similar though.
The farm had a few irrigation reservoirs fed from a pond that caught water from a stream. The year before I was there, someone had run it into the pond to dredge it and it had got stuck, with the water a fair way up the front door. The driver evacuated through the back window. No mobile phones back then [or for at least another decade] so he had to do a bit of deep paddling to fetch a tow tractor or three.
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