Yes these were some of the last tractors built at Meltham by David Brown.

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Yep we always used old motor oil but it had ended up sitting unused for about 5 years so I guess it wore off and rusted lol

I've seen worse lol but yeah, she's a bit cranky when the temp drops near freezing.

Thanks. Yeah nothing out of the ordinary especially for this part of Cape Breton, rocks and hard ground are just normal haha.

Guessing maybe a 1690? I've seen a few cabless 1690's and 1594's in both 2wd and 4wd but I don't think there was any cabless 1694's, they never sold them over here at least but who knows. The whole top half of the cabs do unbolt and come off of the 94 series tractors too.

Yes they are all DB, the 1594 being the last built at Meltham actually. That tinted glass is hard to get now, all of the new replacement stuff has a green tinge to it instead of the grey/brown tint, so used it really the only option. I'd love to have a rollover plough, there is a 3f KV here local that needs some work, basically all the mouldboards and other wear parts need replacing on it, but the dealer that has it thinks it's gold. It's a bit small anyway, would suit my 1394 well I think but I'd like a 4 furrow for the 1594. I did find a 4f Dowdeswell DP7 I got pretty excited about but it was just shear bolt trip on it no spring reset and that wont work here haha.

Was a lovely gearbox for the time, I don't care what anybody says about them. I'd like to move the lever though, it's a bit of a reach.

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Yeah couple wet weeks but it's been great weather before that. Hard to complain really. I'd say the rocks have claimed a few points over the years but they are pretty tough. I don't know how they got on without the spring reset years ago, I don't think the plough we had before this had any reset at all. It was a Kverneland too 2+1 14". They pulled it as a two bottom behind the 885 DB then later as a 3 behind the MF 375, 255 etc. Thanks for watching Noel.

Yes I managed to pull up a few big ones. Where was a few I had to leave as well, trouble with the big rocks is the big holes they leave behind. Thanks for watching Jan.

Yes for sure. Now to get it's smaller sibling back earning it's keep too. Thanks for watching.

@macfarms looking forward to the video of it

Yes never a shortage of rocks. It's not so much you get used to it but more like I don't know any better having never farmed ground anywhere else lol. It's been cool here the last couple days but honestly we've had a fantastic fall so far. Mind you it's not exactly Florida either. I'm sure you'll be in for a bit of a shock heading into this climate haha

Yeah there was a few big ones in all 3 fields I did. Wouldn't be a good spot for a ploughing match....lol

No i haven't found any, really should be running my metal detector over the windrow after it's raked up I guess.

Couple hundred k more views and I might

@@macfarms Look through that rock Pile for some Meteorites and we can buy 10 of them.

This 885 is the same, no mention of DB anywhere on it other than the data plate and the tachometer. The synchomesh 885's we have had are both quiet other than in road gear but that is more final drive noise I think than actual transmission. They shift quite smooth, I think 1-2, 2-3 and 3-2 are all synchronized but 2-1 is not if memory serves. Even though not synchronized I have noticed they seem shift quite smoothly from forward to reverse gears. I quite like the 2 stick synchromesh. I think when they went to the 3 stick on the 90/94 series it was a step backwards.

@macfarms Hi. Many many thanks for answering. Well, the tractor I was looking for needs too much love to be mine. I want it mint condition at the end of the process and it was too far to put money in the project. I will wait and see. Those tractors are a pain in the ass when it comes to noise. I thought I had fixed the problem on my Selectamatic 880 by adjusting both final drives last summer... Not even close. The transmission is noisy. And even if I put $$$ in it, it may still be noisy at the end too so I'm in thinking process. I've putted gear oil 80/90 and additive in it and 140 in final drives. For the moment, that's the best I can do. I would like a 885 but I will buy only if it's closer to no noise. When I was a kid, I noticed that there was a noise when sitting on it on the road. But today, it's not noisy for me... it's annoying. Regards.

It would do the job, but I couldn't think of a worse tractor to put a loader on. The shifter on the dash would be pretty clumsy to operate, they are tough to get between forward and reverse at the best of times. A lot of them didn't have diff lock either. As far as size goes they are 130hp and around 12,000lbs if I remember right, the 3070 in this video would be about 80hp and 10,000lbs.

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I've seen them. I think they'd definitely work. We missed out on one selling fairly cheap a couple of years ago it was even fairly local to us. We were talking about putting a stationary mixer in at the time, so we didn't really consider buying the tmr cart. But then we didn't end up putting a stationary mixer in either lol just the way it goes sometimes, I guess.

Yeah thats what I've noticed, when we had all that down corn it was barely feeding anything through it and the cut was really long then. I think they are meant to be run close to capacity. Once we get the KP on I'll have a look at speeding up the head a bit and hopefully that will make a difference for us.

Thanks for watching Jan. The harvester has a 3306 Cat engine in it, 270hp. The older parts machine we bought has the same thing.

72 day, the last little bit was Dekalb I'm guessing around the same but I don't remember lol

It probably won't be as pretty as some of the plowing you see on the island haha, gotta love rocky ground 🙃

Ya. Rocks are not your friend when plowing. 👍🏻

Yeah all the knives are in it

On that note, I'm pretty sure a local feedlot that I did a coop placement at had one with a six row head on it, it was impressive how fast it filled trucks and it seemed to chop it really well

Yeah this one would probably be better off with a 6 row, we'll see how much power the kernel processor soaks up when we get that on. We will probaby stick with the 4 row unless we can find another smoking deal on a 6 row haha

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5 years now, 2019 was the first year growing it. This was the first year using the White planter and no plastic.

@ I was thinking 6 years. White did well.

Acuron is what we usually use just didn't happen this year for one reason or another. Worked out in the end I guess the silo got filled lol

@phillipmaxfield7516 yes our 885

Sold it 4 years ago now

Just raking rocks into windrows to be picked up later I'm not sure if that would qualify as much of an accomplishment to begin with?

I could try, it's a pretty basic baler though I'm not sure how long the video would be lol

One of Masseys greatest hits, thanks for watching Jan.

Yes all the tines fell off then super dave tried fixing it with an old floor mat and you can see how well it worked lol

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Hahaha aye it's a cracking tractor so it is, the one three five.

Couldn't ask for a better summer really. Absolutely fantastic, especially compared to the wet year before.

Yes better to have too much wood than not enough anyway. It's no good go run short lol

Sold it not long after this video.

Sold it a few years ago now. It was a good tractor, if it was FWA we wouldn't have sold it but we just had no real use for big 2wd tractors. I'm a big fan of the 3000 series. We do still have our 3070.

@@macfarms good to know! And yes, I’d love to find a good 3000 series

@@DTGProductions451 I hope to never have to chop anything that bad again it was pure poison.

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@@bigtractorpower yes good to have it will help keep the 1915 going for a long time to come.

Thanks Noel! Yes it is, well worth what we paid for it.

Hahaha Snow harvester.

For sure. Thanks for watching!