Spent a few hours on 8H’s & D8k’s doing land development and ripping cotton country Spent a lot of nights in the winter freezing my butt off in the cold ripping and towing land planes They where the go to back in the day the only machine with enough horsepower to get the job done
At last some one who can start one correctly, well done. Not like some U see on here, great clouds of white smoke, a sledge hammer knocking away inside the engine as it tries to run on only a couple of cylinders, there is a lot out there that should watch this video they might learn something.
In 1980 about 20 to 30 D8H were brought in from the uk to Australia after a major road project was finished l know of 3 of them in the Moree nsw area one has a serial number 22a 1436 and 1438 the other one wasn’t far from these one as well be interesting what that one is
I think it was one of the big motor way over there M1 not sure the ones over here have 7 roller track frame and direct drive most of them were bare tractors blades and rippers scrub canopy’s were fitted out here
There was a lot D8K as well came a cross at the same time one company in Moree had 13 8k 8h a lot of land was getting developed around that time for cotton needed direct drive for farming and ripping ground power shift 7s 8s could not go in the heat out here 10 or 11 park up and wait for it to cool down great tractor done a lots of hours on them
Hi, i have a question about the cab rotation, we have a 2006 xerion 3300. Its cab rotation is opposite of yours and it doesn't sit down on the locking pins like it should. Would you happen to know how to fix this issue? I have no known dealers in my area that work on these and would like some help if possible. We are on the east Coast of the USA. Great sounding machine.
As a MF mechanic, I PDI'd plenty of MF 1200's & 1250's, seviced lots, did BIG break downs on a few, but when I moved on working for various agri contractors, I never got to operate one, well I did have an afternoon discing with one, loved every second.
Very nice setup, my friend has a 75c parked up as he doesnt like it as he prefers to pull his 10 furrow dowdeswell with his cat d8h on reclaimed gypson clay, needles to say the d8 has broke the plough a few times lol
A great looking example of the MF 1200. The fact that the cultivator has the standard shanks, rather than the low draught ones, must have offered a fair bit of soil resistance to the tractor ?
615LSA .. einer der geilsten Traktoren die ich je gefahren bin . bei dieser Serie benötigte man selten den Allrad Schalter. das isnd noch richtige Eisenschweine .. die ziehen wenigstens was weg ..
May I ask where this footage was from ? Wondered if that was a big old Cat D8 hooked up to an even larger Dowdeswell plough on the right - possibly another DP2 or perhaps a DP4 ?
It's really great to see these old tractors still being used effectively everyday, who needs the latest half million pound tractor to farm efficiently, I'm loving your videos 🎉
Presumeably, that intermediate pivotting carriage, controls depth at the front ? Since you say the castoring action of the rear wheel has been locked off, may I ask what would happen, if it were free to castor in the usual way ?
The pivot can control depth or you can use it to partially transfer weight to maintain traction when using smaller tractors. It’s best to lock the caster up with the front pivot as it makes the plough more manageable, reversing is significantly easier!
