amazing tractors these,the first tractor over 100hp in the uk,very few left as most were stripped back to 2 tractors and sold off as no one wanted them
plenty of blowby there .My dad had one about 40 years ago. Dead easy to re ring or replace the liners and keep them in service. We even had one of those engines in a boat.
His front engine is not working, that is why he's got no traction and gets stuck.With both motors runing this type of tractors can pull some serious loads.
Fantastic piece of kit.Love it. Hope they show it as is and don't restore it. And that left rear tyre is holding air after years of sitting flat. Great.
I remember going round the "Royal Show" at Stoneleigh, when I was nipper and seeing them on the Ford stand, new ones! Never understood how they got the front and back end to co ordinate with gears and speed
At 1.48 must be something wrong with the clutch why turn off the tractor to put it in gear, I'm just curious Lovely tractor we have a diesel major with loader still in work clothes runs like a clock
+joseph migliore not exactly hillbilly many tandem tractor kits were made in the 40s-60s for many brand tractors for pulling larger implements when the largest tractors available were 3-4 plow tractors. of course there were the home made ones made from junk yard parts.
***** Thank you. That makes sense. The tractor was backing out fairly well in my opinion, considering; it was in very slippery sticky mud, the lugs on directional tires don't clean out properly in reverse, the lugs were worn down to provide hardly any benefit, and running on one engine pulling the weight of two tractors. THAT is four (4) separate challenges all simultaneously combined to hamper the result on a tractor that has been sitting for 30 years. GIMME A BREAK. If any single one of these handicaps was removed , That triple D would have reversed straight away. I grew up on a farm. International, and Ford tractors, Allis Chalmers(Gleaner) combine.
John J Kelly , As I have just recently discovered these wonderful creations , I had to look it up. In the 1950's George Pryor of Essex would buy two Fordsons and connect them to double the drawbar pull. Local Fordson dealer Earnest Doe and sons, worked with Pryer and introduced the Doe Dual Drive tractor in 1958. Called the "Triple D" We were both right ! And now we know , the rest of the story. Be Well, my good man.
John J Kelly just one more thing. A very clever bloke in Austrailia took two "Chamberlain" tractors and made the behemoth of all pulling tractors. It must be 40 feet long or more. He is just guessing what it might weigh, and how much it will pull, but by all means Google it. I guess the fields in Au. are gigantic going for miles and miles, so he made this to get it done quicker. Beautiful Bright Orange Behemoth.
+Toms Chevelle I had a good chuckle about that too, but it became quite evident that the front was not running. The front would provide more traction by itself than the rear in that setup.
easiest and cheapest way to get a large 4x4 tractor. most tractors were no larger than 70 horsepower those days and almost all where 2 wheel drive so they made these kits to combine two smaller tractors into a big one.
+roomba thats because its two tractors hucked together, thus basically a first gen articulated tractor. Double the tractor, double the power. Most were factory made, some people decided to take matters into their own hands
Come on mate ........ think about it slowly ....... which is going to be cheaper to make overall , 1 "tractor " with two engines or 1 tractor with a single larger engine & conventional 4 wheel drive . This was a pragmatic answer to a technology / marketing & supply problem . It was things like the Muir Hill that broke the water shed & this was one of the "logical" stop gaps ....... Rome was not built in a day .
