My late father had one of these right up until 1978 when he traded it in for a countryman 354. I was really sad to see it.go. A few years ago I found it.again on the Chamberlain tractor website. To see it.again after all this time was really quite emotional for me. 😊😊😊
Love the cow catcher blade on the front.........very Mad Max. You could fit a russian cab heater really easily, just a fan between the engine and cab, to force in the hot air, and your toasty warm.
As long as there isn’t too much wind the fan on the engine blows a faire amount of hot air into the cab. If you have the back curtain down you stay fairly warm.
My Brother had a Chamberlain Countryman whilst my father had a Fordson Dexta each had advantages ie 3PL on the Dexta but the Chamberlain was more powerful. Of course the old N27 had a pulley on it so it still ran the chaff cutter etc.
Some of the Chamberlains had a 3 point linkage as well, but they are a lot more expensive. We have a Fordson E27N as well that we have run the chaff cutter with. Mostly we use the Fordson power major for the chaff cutter as it uses a lot less fuel.
Considering Bob Chamberlain was a super salesman who could sell ice to eskimos, and set up the Chamberlain tractor factory as a means of continually transferring money from the WA State Government (see note) to his other company Rolloy Piston Co., it is amazing that over the years I have met many Chamberlain tractor owners, even of the 40K 2-cyl kero tractors, and they all like them. Even today you still find Chamberlain late 50's 6G's & derivatives in use in scrap yards and metal fabricator/engineering yards in use as light cranes. Note: The tractor factory was always run at a loss, and whether they actually made any tractors on any given day/week/month was unimportant. Bob Chamberlain had negotiated an agreement with the WA government which gave Chamberlain a heavy subsidy, principally a set free factory buildings and an unlimited overdraft from the State owned Rural & Industries Bank. All the machine tools in the factory were war-surplus, paid for by the Federal Government. So there was money coming in and not much outgoings other than wages. Although the tractor and plow etc design and engineering was done in WA, on paper Rolloy owned the designs and thus received royalties. Once imported diesel tractors became readily available, not many Chamberlains were sold, however the 6G was more successful because Bob Chamberlain went to Britain, got the GM of Perkins drunk, and conned him into selling to Chamberlain diesel engines at a loss, so that the tractor price could be kept down.
Hi Jan, The seeder is still a ground drive. All seeders need to have a gear box of some sort or different size cogs that you change to set the different seed and fertiliser rates. The big advantage with this seeder is that the tines have a much higher breakout, or spring pressure keeping them in the ground. This means I don’t need to plough before I seed. The old combine seeder I had before wouldn’t dig deep enough in out heavy soil unless I had ploughed first. Thanks
Hi Jan, almost all seeders including this one are ground drive. I think you are meeting a combine seeder? There are only a very few of these that have the heavy duty tines and these are hard to find at a reasonable price. The other advantage of the air seeders is they can carry far more seed and fertiliser so more acres can be covered between stops. I hope this helps. Thansk
@@brookdalefarm7986 yes sorry I think I’m using the wrong terminology, what I mean is air seeder vs non air seeder We use an old grasslands seeder that doesn’t use air just gears
Hi Jan, Those combine seeders are great, and work well and are much simpler than the air seeder. The other reason air seeders are more popular now is that they can be made much wider than the combine seeders so they cover the acres more quickly.
