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Old 12-09-2021, 09:14 AM   #31
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I appreciate "Big Bud" tractors, I believe there used to be 2 owned by a share cropper over in Kellerberrin about 30+ years ago, If i remember correctly they where around 650hp each....

The biggest Big Bud though was the Big Bud 16V-747 which only one was ever made, originally 760hp it's now set at 1100hp...

Big Bud chiselling a 3000 acre 'field', decent size top paddock lol.....

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No, brutal, hence my leaving home at 15 with nothing but a back pack of clothes and the word of mouth of work 150km away.
When a 15yo chooses hard labour in a sweatbox factory over home and school you know theres something very wrong but it was a different time and you didnt report it.

The only time he was anything like a Father was on a Friday evening between his 3rd and 10th stubbie, outside of that he was either psychotic or dangerous.
He'd knock the **** out of me for looking tbe wrong way but needed a carton of **** to put down a fly blown lamb.

In those few hours he was 'normal' he'd talk about his life and i was sceptical as i couldnt imagine that until i met his siblings in the UK in 88 and they confirmed it.

He was 5ft and pure muscle, i once watched him walk in to a horse compound and knock a stallion out with one punch as it tried to trample a foal that had rolled under the bottom rails of the corral.
Laid out 6 coppers in the old Elizabeth hotel in the 70's before they could control him and took him out stark naked.
I was sceptical of this too until i met one of them 20yrs later who asked my surname, said it was unusual and asked if any relation, i said yes and he closed his note book and walked away.

That's a "father" by name only, very sad story, but seems like you got over it ok?
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He'd knock the **** out of me for looking tbe wrong way but needed a carton of **** to put down a fly blown lamb.

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yeah..tough guys beat up their family because that's all they know, same as the way their old man treated them.

Glad those days are gone where its just accepted.
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I appreciate "Big Bud" tractors, I believe there used to be 2 owned by a share cropper over in Kellerberrin about 30+ years ago, If i remember correctly they where around 650hp each....

The biggest Big Bud though was the Big Bud 16V-747 which only one was ever made, originally 760hp it's now set at 1100hp...

Big Bud chiselling a 3000 acre 'field', decent size top paddock lol.....

and doesn't she sound great.
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Driptroits.....









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and doesn't she sound great.
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Door open, door closed, door open, door closed.....lol
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Nice Jaydee.....and hayseed.

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I hope I got the correct tractor pic here from your post. (Edit: Yep, the International diesel crawler)/

A Diesel with a carburettor? Yes, this is one of the cleverest design engines ever made in my opinion. International 3 valve engine, start by hand crank on petrol, then switch over to diesel. No battery required, magneto ignition.

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I hope I got the correct tractor pic here from your post. (Edit: Yep, the International diesel crawler)/

A Diesel with a carburettor? Yes, this is one of the cleverest design engines ever made in my opinion. International 3 valve engine, start by hand crank on petrol, then switch over to diesel. No battery required, magneto ignition.

I did a bit of a study on this a while ago, this album explains it, have a look:

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Great photos roKWiz.
Great information on the crawler petrol starting system.
Reminds me of this 3cyl Kelvin Diesel I took pictures of in the Auckland Maritime Museum.
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There's a place I used to visit North of Perth had a crawler dozer with petrol/diesel engine, it was smaller than the kelvin in pics.
They asked me to look at it, see if I could start it, they had and still have sheds full of old gear going back over 100 years.

When I was prospecting I would come across old cars and trucks all over the place, but the property owners know their value!


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Like hens teeth, this one.
Bet you haven't seen one.



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Still hens teeth.

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Bet you haven't seen one.

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Sorry, can't read the nameplate.
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Ok, Burnout, I haven't seen one. What is it?
Sorry, can't read the nameplate.
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That's exactly what I was going to ask!.......



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Sorry, can't read the nameplate.
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Obviously not a JD??
Oliver maybe!
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Sorry, can't read the nameplate.
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English Tractor, commonly known as a 'Yeoman'. A V4 diesel.
First one I've ever seen in Aus.
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Three little Cats.
A D2, a 33 & a 22.


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The Yeoman thing seems familiar, maybe from farming relatives in NZ. Anyone else seen one there?
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I'd like to know why it's got an an axle shaft extension on the back rear left wheel!.....
Maybe to run a pulley for a belt?...


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I'd like to know why it's got an an axle shaft extension on the back rear left wheel!.....
Maybe to run a pulley for a belt?...


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Dual wheels?
Or Row Crop adjustable.

BTY a pulley drive would be off the PTO at the rear.

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Found this on the internet!.......you on the money burnout?...



REAR WHEEL TRACK ADJUSTMENTYour tractor may be fitted with a fixed flange type orbar type rear axle. With a fixed flange type axle rearwheel track adjustment is effected by changing thewheel rim relative to the centre disc, the rim and/orthe disc relative to the axle hub or by inter--changingthe rear wheels.


With bar axles, the same method of adjustmentapplies but with the added advantage of being ableto move the wheel hub on the axle shaft. Thisprovides an infinite range of adjustment between thenarrowest and widest settings.



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Chambermaid camper.

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See this one below towing a caravan.



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Rokwiz, you got any more info on the timber one?
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Rokwiz, you got any more info on the timber one?
Not sure but I think the band of Woodcutters from NSW north coast did it. They often display and demonstrate their skills at various truck, machinery shows.

Either that or someone had a lot of time on their hands.



Not remotely related to tractors. This was at the same show for CB.

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another 2 touring Chamberpots...

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An H Van that’s not selling coffee or street food? Unbelievable!
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Gray Fergie with a Fergie Post Holer Borer attached, simple effective like all they stuff the made, had one one the Farm.

In the background, an Inter, a Dodge, an ?Inter & an Atkinson, (just cause they were there).
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Is that AA, a Travelall?
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