Every farm kid from the 60s 70s and 80s would surly remember a chamberlain tractor or implement. Selling out to deere was what eventually closed the business. 🇦🇺👍
On our farming property we still use a orange model 14 disc and a 24 disc yellow model Chamberlain plow. When set up PROPERLY, they are very easy to pull and a cheap way to cultivate ground. They’re built bloody strong too and when ballasted with half a ton they will plow concrete. We also have a 9g, a Countryman, and a C6100 tractor. We use a 2390 Case for tillage and it pulls the 24 like its not even there in red loamy clay base country through to gravelly loam dirt. It knows something is hangin on when the 14 and 24 are hooked together but you can sure cover some ground with them.. We can wear out a set of points in a day with a scarifier, it get expensive, and weve had the same discs on the Chamberlain plows for the last forty odd years. 60 for the 14 discer. Worn out more sets of tyres than discs. Lol.
My memory of a chamberlain champion it could, in high gear do 45km which was “scary”they had a special one year you got a free large umbrella you mounted on mud guard for shade ,the umbrella was replaced years later with a get in over the linkage glass louvred windowed....... cab.
They also came out with 50 disc chamberlain plough in mid 80s dnt see them now these days love to see a video with them working again. My grandfather used them on his farm in Carnamah towed behind with a chamberlain 4480 tractor
30 is the biggest they made champ there was a 36 proto type to match the connershea . dowering engineering used to weld two together they made up to 40 s but they did not contour well. a 50 straight plow would be too heavy to lift on single rams.
The most honest tractor I have ever operated is a 4480 on duels fully weighted, water in all tyres, full of fuel and the draw bar a high has it could be set. towing a Chamberlin 20 disk plough very deep over yackas and rolling out stumps Up and down hills. Then a 12' Kiki stone roller full of water. Never say die. just a shame about the brakes. I havent driven anything that comes close in that horsepower.
I'm looking for one of those ploughs, we had a Countryman 6354 and a C670 which was similar but not as powerful. The Countryman used 2 litres of oil a day miss fired on a cylinder or 2 at idle but still did a good days work. It died in front of the plough and we bought an IH 786 and were disappointed! The cab was quitet and you were out of the dust and stayed clean but it was gutless compared to a well worn Chamberlain. I think the countryman did 15k plus hours it went to the wreakers after we finished with it.
How could Chamberlain Tractors have kept going? I reckon if they had developed good hydraulics and front end loader they would have dominated the market 50 years ago.
When John Deere bought them out or amalgamated with them , the writing was on the wall. That and a tight arse Gov that didnt give a shit about farmers. Still much the same today. Farmers are placed at the bottom of the totem pole.
I used to drive a Chamberlain industrial tractor harrowing newly clrared scrub at mulgoa nsw in the early 70s, i enjoyed the work but the french millionaire owner who was secretly subdividing was an arse.
