Majorman
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- Scarning, Norfolk, England
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Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
Haven't seen a barrel spreader in a long time!
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Nuffield was among the earliest diesel tractors to show up on farms in Canada during the late 50s. Farmers just didnt want to trust these smelly unfamiliar diesel engines. The lower cost of fuel and the reliability on the diesels soon changed farmers minds. One of our neighbours hosted a demonstration day sponsored by a Nuffield tractor dealer and a fuel delivery company at their farm. The fuel distributor said they would install a underground fuel tank with an electric pump if you switched to their company when you bought a diesel tractor, and diesel was about 12 cents per gallon while gasoline was 25 cents. 4 farmers that I knew bought the new and largest Nuffield tractor at that demonstration day and took advantage of the underground fuel tank offer. Most local fuel companies had diesel, but their customers were construction equipment like road graders and bulldozers. There got to be quite a few British built Nuffield and David Brown tractors in our area during the early 60s, good reliable tractors and much less expensive than the American built tractors and ran on less expensive fuel too.
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Majorman
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- Scarning, Norfolk, England
Still got that old one and it gets used from time to time. That causes her to smoke black too with a good load of well rotted bullock muck.
Yes, they were quite popular here as well....for a while. They didn't seem to have as long a life as other makes, whereas now you still see an old Ford or Massey etc of that vintage still in use, I haven't seen a Nuffield or David Brown or Leyland still in use for more than 10 years.
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Bruce from Can.
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In fairness to the David Brown tractors, they became Case tractors, and continued right on into the 1990s as CaseIH. The Nuffield tractors getting a name change and becoming Leyland and then Marshals really didnt help them. Different names and colours and lack of dealer network.
In all fairness as my area is much like yours Ben, I dont see many tractors from even the 70s out doing work in the fields of commercial farms. Not much left for a 2wd tractor under 100hp to do. Even modern hay rakes and mergers require a fairly large tractor to meet the hydraulic flow demands. Discbine and round balers have gotten too big for most of the older tractors too. So most old tractors are relegated to hobby farms or yard work.
The 70s was such a time of change, not only did we see Duetz and Fait tractors but Belarus tractors competing in the market. Case , JD and IH even Ford began to import tractors under 100hp from Europe.
In all fairness as my area is much like yours Ben, I dont see many tractors from even the 70s out doing work in the fields of commercial farms. Not much left for a 2wd tractor under 100hp to do. Even modern hay rakes and mergers require a fairly large tractor to meet the hydraulic flow demands. Discbine and round balers have gotten too big for most of the older tractors too. So most old tractors are relegated to hobby farms or yard work.
The 70s was such a time of change, not only did we see Duetz and Fait tractors but Belarus tractors competing in the market. Case , JD and IH even Ford began to import tractors under 100hp from Europe.
caterpillar guy
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I don't know what was sent to Canada back then much but there were many diesels in the States before the 60's and some were used on the farm. Out on the plains and northwestern are of Washington wheat farms were a lot of Cat diesels for tillage and planting. Grand pa had the D-4 diesel he bought new in the late 30's and we still have it.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Good many David Brown tractors in my area still in use.I have 2 990's,2 780 and a 885 I use plus some parts tractors.
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