Cockshutt 1900 Supercharged GM 4-53 Pull 

Definitely, they can still do a good days work even today.

In those it was a 3-71.

They are a fantastic tractor.

Good ol’ jimmy.👍

Hell of a noise they make eh!

Yes. I still feel that a Detroit Diesel was a machine invented to convert diesel fuel into smoke and noise.

Trukluver As true now as it was back then.

+Trukluver Ever have to drive one? With a 5 and 4 yet? We had three of them up until the last dozen years or so. Had the pleasure of driving one when it died. Sounded like they should cover the quarter in 10 flat. 10 minutes was closer.

***** oh yeah definitely an ear ringer I used to run an old Oliver running a detroit to pull a roller on constuction sites, brutal even with earplugs after a full day

+39Cholo Sounds like a fucking sewing machine.

Perhaps You do but, would You like to listen to this hours on end in the field?

Timothy Lines yea a friend of the ordinary guy lol

Detroit two strokes have a storied history, some swear by them, some swear at them. For better or worse they found their way into pretty much everything.

@@Rainhill1829 thanks for your reply. In the meantime I found out some Details about the DD 2-stroke types. Up to 4 exhaust valves for borehole cleaning is an indicator for the seriousness of the draftsmen. Obviously the DD twostroke took a serious evolutionary development over the whole time it was built... ...last it seems, the era ended because of increasing requirements for exhaust substance and maybe fuel economy... ...Just as the German legendary aircooled DEUTZ Diesel died because of exhaust problems that could not be solved with air-cooled technique...

Ah almost, we got lots of crankcase scavenged two stroke diesels featured here too.

No, all 2stroke diesel's have a blower, not a supercharger!

What the hell are you talking about? You're missing something that should be somewhere in your skull.

K Stewart+ it's actually pretty funny, and even funnier that you said he's missing something

Les Brown is probably the worst company name in history.

Robert Long True, or oil consumption.

How to turn fuel into noise. I once spent a long day on the Oliver version, with earplugs and earmuffs over those. Not fun at all. It is no mystery why these are rare today.