My dad’s first tractor when I was a kid was a db case 990 around 1980 in New Brunswick, Canada. I was about 5 years old and it took both my feet to push in the clutch but I was able to harrow the fields to help out! Great videos! John from Canada!
She's functional and, yep, beats a shovel! Love the sound of that old tractor... I just find it hard to imagine some of the new machines working 75 to 100 years from now...
Nice to bring back wonderful memories of living out in the country as i did. To me, this is the best life on the planet... Working and using the tools that people discarded for the newer and the better, but the old stuff still works.... Great work...
I like watching you get those old machines running again and working them, the backhoe may be home made but it’s still neat and seems to work pretty good, enjoy your videos
I really enjoy your vidoes , your are such a practical man ,,and you can virtually fix anything i am envious ,being a practical man myself i relate to a lot of the stuff you do
The tractor is sounding great. I think you can find those used back wheel weights pretty inexpensively. They would give you some good traction. On a side note, the weather looks great there!
Love seeing old stuff put back to work, I feel like if a machine could talk it would tell you it's happiest being used. Also pleases put a guard on that PTO shaft, I've seen good ones fail in spectacular fashion, they can easily kill or mangle you, just a couple of steel hoops will do the job.
Hi, see you are struggling for traction towing the nufeild setup even though you have reasonable rubber on the 990. If you bring your boom in and as near to vertical as you can in transit, you move your centre of pivot from half way from nuffield axle to boom, to closer to the nuffield axle, so instead of lifting the back of the 990, you can actually get traction, also, suspect there is little water in your rear tyres, we used to run water to top of rim plus half of the tread above the rim, hope this makes sense and helps, cheers keep up the good work
Dear Marty T. Good to see that stabil backhoe at work again. Please kindly allow me to suggest to modify that free spinning shaft. With a kind of cage one will have a lot more security respectively protection. 2) Dear good old David B.. You smoked quite a bit out of your exhaust. Are you a little bit ill maybe? Whatever: get well soon. ;-) :-) Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all involved life forms (humans, sheep, rams, cows and tractors).
I was using one in the early 80s that broke in half wile I was using it. The tank and hood smashed the dash around the steering column. Other than that it ran fine.
I love backhoes. I bought a 1988 Jcb 3cx with extra dig and 4wd. It's the best purchase I've ever made in my life. Helps me out with so many things. Everyone. GO BUY A JCB 3CX.👍
I may not be the first to say that there really is no need to speed things up. I'm sure I'm not the only one who could watch this all day in real time.
Great Video MartyT, I was mistaken, i thought you were going to excavate the pipes, ! funny watching a nuffield back axle behind a david brown! thanks for sharing
Dear ddoyle 11 LOL 👍👌👏 Yeah, I bet this tripod was trembling of fear. The cow probably smelled the salt from hands on the grip. But fortunately it wasn't enough dried sweat on it so that the cow didn't lick. Best regards luck and health.
I see the backhoe takes a few of the three point hitch points. A couple of the unused hitch components should have bars to hook up a thousand lb. Weight of concrete for the back of the David Brown. That would make the lashup more useable. Then straighten out the driveshaft on the pto so you can turn it about 200 rpm faster and will make the backhoe turn a pretty lift and stop being so sluggish. Unless you are already peaking the high pressure dump valve. If so all it would do is heat the oil. Probably needs a filter in the hydro summers.
All that beautiful crystal clear water would be nice over on the west island Marty we need it about now, and I love how the chooks and cows come down to check the finished product
Is this thing really homemade, or is it from the days when backhoes were separate units? The tires do seem kind of heavy-duty, almost like it originally was a tractor.
Neat to see one of these. Not sure if these are common over there but I'm pretty sure this is the David Brown responsible for the "DB" in the Aston Martin DB series (which is what made Aston Martin the brand we know today). Cool piece of history.
Wow - really surprised at the DB wheelspin around 0:56 - I grew up on a farm, and (IME) a tractor that size can pull a LOT (oh, and while I'm here, I LOVE your approach to restoration which is: to start with do the routine maintainence the previous owner SHOULD have done - filters, seals, bearings and fluids. A refreshing change from the "total strip down and mirror polish everything" school of RU-vidr)
Aged not useless . Works quite well for the price . Great job on restore . Still need to work on pto shaft though . "Deeds not words" Its not as much on what is sead but what one does .
Jesus! That thing is home made?? I´ve been moving dirt by hand all year so i´m probably as good at it as i´m ever gonna be, but this home made thing is so awfully much faster than 2 buddies with shovels and spades...jesus.
Was it too far to bring the old excavator down Marty? She's a little light on the draw bar...LOL. As you say , still better than a shovel! Nice work gents! Cheers Gregg.
The DB running a lot better Marty after the service... not too much exhaust smoke now and only after a bit of load goes on for a sec... might clear up a wee bit more yet. Reminds me of my dad's farm at Hokitika
Watched the Hitachi rescue and restoration work and looks like good things happen to good people! Very impressed with your knowledge and skill. Really enjoy the videos and watching you get things done with it. You gave it a new lease on life!
@John Chrysostom Different saying in my area. Around here its Chinese. Not sure why. I don't question it. And the terms might be 100 years old but I am ignorant of the term in the first place. Love the learning, though.
Calming by watching. Really, big thanks for these series, which let globalization and all its bad circumstances seem far away. Amazing nature and environment, makes thoughts why not living just another place and another way of life. Keep enjoying and doing that big boy's stuff! :-)
There is a product called Rim Guard is made from I think sugar beets it much heavier than water it won't rust your rims. .down side is its expensive and reeks if it leaks say from a damaged tire. Of course there are iron wheel weights too.
Is that black pipe connected to a ram pump? Or is it just a supply line? If it's a ram pump could you please show us your set up, I'm sorry if you already have a video on it and I missed it. Sorry I just saw another comment where you said it's not a ram pump. Keep up the good work and happy New year.
Seems like the backhoe is a little heavy for the DB990. Maybe it would help if you could link the PTO to the input shaft of the backhoe axle. In that way you have extra traction
Well done. So often it takes the help of a few good mates. It's good to see the restored machinery put to work. Hope you had a good Christmas and have a super new year. You certainly live in a beautiful country.
that old backhoe either needs a bigger tractor to move it around, or you might need to really tuck that arm as far forward as possible when transiting. or maybe a couple of weights near the drawbar.
