Many classic John Deere tractors showed up at the recently held Ewijk Festijn (a classic vehicle show and fair), neatly lined up alongside the road. But there was more to see for the classic agricultural machinery enthusiast…
Like this 1961 Deutz D25 with a 25 hp air cooled 2-cylinder Deutz diesel engine. Deutz-Fahr is the current name for the farm tractors, all equipped with a water cooled Deutz engine.
1959 David Brown 950 Implematic, 40 hp from its David Brown 2.7 liter 4-cylinder diesel engine.
A Ford. All I can say about this one. To Mr. Ed Stembridge and all other Ford tractor enthusiasts out there: feel free to tell us more about it.
Fordson Super Major. The final Major model, built from 1960 to 1964 in Dagenham, UK. After 1964 the Fordson name was dropped and all Ford tractors were also badged as Ford.
1958 Feldmeister with an 18 hp MWM (Motoren Werke Mannheim) diesel engine.
Eicher Leopard with a 981 cc single cylinder air cooled diesel engine, type Eicher EDK1, good for 16 hp. The Leopard model (watch the front suspension) was built from 1960 to 1966. Other predator and animal names that Eicher used were Panther, Tiger, Königstiger, Puma, Büffel and Mammut. However, the biggest Eicher tractor of the series was called Wotan.
Two fine examples of the legendary and highly successful Lanz Bulldog tractors, built by Heinrich Lanz AG from Mannheim. The older types, like the ones above, are famous for the horizontal single cylinder two-stroke hot-bulb engine. These engines could run on a wide diversity of low-grade fuels. Its production started in 1921 and in 1956 John Deere bought Lanz, initially selling the tractors as John Deere-Lanz.
In 1984 the last Volvo BM (Bolinder-Munktell) farm tractor left the factory. Above a T800, a model built from 1966 to 1978. Inline-6 Volvo D50 diesel engine, displacement 5,130 cc. The 5,480 cc Volvo D60 engine was used in the final years of the T800’s production run. And what a sweet sound these 6-cylinder diesel tractors make…
The Ford 7000 was built from 1971 to 1975, it has a 94 hp 4-cylinder turbo diesel. Ford Blue & White, simply wonderful.
The Lanz Bulldog D4016 Volldiesel (diesel only) was built from 1956 to 1960, 40 hp from its horizontal single cylinder two-stroke 4,222 cc engine with a thermosyphon water cooling system. Easy starting thanks to two glow plugs.
Hanomag, another high-quality -and extinct- tractor brand. Above a 1960 Hanomag R324SA.
The Hanomag’s Schmierplan. I think Lubrication Chart is the correct translation.
1956 4wd MAN Ackerdiesel. From 1921 to 1962 the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg also built farm machinery, the old company is best known for their big diesel trucks.
This Unimog is a tractor alright.
1974 Massey-Ferguson 158, its first owner was a French farmer.
On the right a 1966 McCormick D-219.
1954 Kramer K15 with a 15 hp 1.25 liter 2-cylinder water cooled MWM diesel engine. On the left a Fendt fix 1. The fix 1 model was built from 1958 to 1960 and could be ordered with an air cooled or water cooled MWM engine.
1958 John Deere 730 Diesel with its legendary 2-cylinder horizontal in-line engine.
John Deere 200 with a matching crane.
Mean looking beast, this 1975 John Deere 6030 with an 8.7 liter inline-6 turbocharged intercooled diesel engine.
We end the tractor tour as we started it, with a John Deere line-up.
Another nice post, good on you mr. Dutch.
Lot’s of nice tractors there, but sadly, no Porsche diesel. 🙁
The Ford is their Jubilee model, from 1953 on, which replaced the legendary N series. The engine got overhead valves, and the size started to grow, as well as being available in a row crop version, like this one. Ford needed to branch out of just the small utility tractor like the N.
Some fine John Deeres there. That big 730 diesel two cylinder makes wonderful sound under a big load. I’m not totally sure, but I think some of those smaller utility JD’s might have been made by their European division.
I would love to hear one of those Lanz Bulldogs at work!
Thanks for the Ford-info. And here’s a nice Lanz Bulldog video, the full starting procedure (I think we can describe it that way) included:
Going by the badge on the row-crop Ford, it’s actually a “hundred series” tractor (700 in this case), made from ’54-57. It’s essentially a renamed NAA, with the same 134 cu in OHV engine with 28 PTO HP. The 700 was the row-crop version and the 600 was the wide front version. The (Golden) Jubilee was a one-year (’53) model in honor of Ford’s 50th anniversary and succeeded the N Series. It was called the NAA until the hundred series debuted.
The John Deeres in the top photo are pretty mix-and-match, I would need a book of models to say where they were from-some Iowa, some Georgia, some from the Lanz factory in Germany. The smaller tractors in the last photo are from Lanz, the older ones in back are from Waterloo and Dubuque. In the mix is the legendary Model D, the first real Deere tractor and in production from mid 20’s to about 1950. They just kept pulling. The 730 is indeed a beast, but it also held the record for tractor fuel economy (“horsepower hours/gallon”) for 20 years. Very nice selection of machines we didn’t get over here, thanks!
The full fenders, seat and windshield on that first Lanz Bulldog make it look like an overgrown roadster. Wonder if the farmer used it as his transportation into town as well as in his fields?
That type of tractor is called a “Straßenzugmaschine” in German. A streets towing machine, so on-road use only.
The utility tractors look very reminiscent of our 1020 and 2020 utilitys, which were made in Dubuque (as all the small JDs were “back in the day”) but built off a design from the Mannheim plant.
Great selection, some very familiar some not so much, I was impressed with some of the vintage JDs I saw still working this last harvest season all well beaten but still going strong mostly towing truck loading gondolas, at the tomato processing facility theres an old Ford selectamatic used for towing trailers onto the wash along with two late model John deere 4wds it really struggles for traction with a 18-20 tonne loaded trailer on wet ground but still manages to get the job done, perhaps Mr Buffet will supply a replacement from his loose change,
Didn’t know Hanomag made tractors; their Wehrmacht half-tracks were (of course) better-protected than US White/Internationals, but not nearly so numerous.
Any Lamborghinis there?
I haven’t spotted a Lamborghini, Ferrari or Porsche….farm tractor.
Lamborghini tractors is an SDF (Same Deutz Fahr) company, equipped with Deutz engines. Below their current top model, the Mach VRT 250. Looks quite sporty, doesn’t it ?
Wouldn’t this be a “fieldside” classic? OT, why can’t I change my profile pic?
Many thanks, Johannes. It’s especially interesting to see the European tractors (Feldmeister, Eicher, Hanomag….)that didn’t make it down under, or sold in tiny numbers. And as for that fully-fendered Lanz with windshield, bench seat and hood – wow!
Feldmeister (“Field Master”) and Kramer, two brands I had never heard of before I visited this show…
Especially Germany had many tractor makers, just a handful of them is still around. Extinct brands like Eicher, Hanomag, Lanz and Schlüter built tractors of the very highest quality.
Always fun to see European tractors as a counterpart to what we have here. Despite the fact that I don’t have farming anywhere in my family history (that I know of), old tractors do fascinate me.
Is that the same David Brown of Aston Martin renown?
Correct ! The same Sir David Brown.
In a former parish there was a farmer named David Brown, who had a – you guessed it, David Brown! I often used to stir him about having his name on his tractor.
At any American farm show, a 6030 is almost like a Corvette, GTO, or Z28–so quintessential it’s boring. Here it’s like a fish out of water. Very cool.
The 6030 was, IIRC, the only JD to be offered with both an intercooled/turbocharged engine making 175 HP and a naturally-aspirated version making 141 HP (dropped after the first year, because when your tractor weighs 9 tons, you need all the HP you can get). And please! In the early ’70s, no farmer would have referred to engine displacement in metric–it’s 531 cubic inches like God intended! (Tongue firmly in cheek.)
Notice that the 730 Standard has aftermarket front steps. Until their New Generation in 1960, John Deere (and most other mfrs., for that matter) made their tractors with the assumption that you would only mount them from the rear. Row-crop tractors were mostly used for cultivating, and the cultivator was mounted to the front frame. Standard (or “Wheatland”) tractors like the 730 were used for pulling large tillage equipment and grain drills, but their fronts were often blocked by tall dust shields. In both cases, PTO, hydraulic cylinders, and three-point hitches were not really standard equipment until the early ’60s, so the rear of the machine was usually very open and easy to get on and off. With the New Generation in August 1960, John Deere explicitly marketed their new tractors as being front-entry, “like an automobile.”
Of course, utility tractors (esp. those derived from European designs) were always meant to be mounted from the front.
Thanks for all the extra info. As an aside, I happen to know the owner of the JD 730. A retired dairy farmer, I think he’s 82 years old now. I remember he was restoring the 730 to its current (fantastic) condition.