Oliver Super 99 Plowing - Detroit Diesel

Oliver Super 99 with a 2-stroke 3-71 GM Detroit Diesel engine pulling a 4 bottom plow. #tractor #diesel #detroitdiesel #farming #2stroke

[@cousinfester4621]

I don't know how you can listen to one of those all day long and not have your ears ringing at night.

[@jonelsonster]

I'm sure your ears were ringing at night.

[@outdoorlifemaine6691]

Because he's been doing it for 20 years so he already lost all them tones

[@marksmith9142]

A friend of mine bought one his senior year of high school. One year later he bought hearing aids. You could hear it running from 5 miles away.

[@douglasheckler7997]

They will ring for the rest of your life.

[@gunnut603]

@@jonelsonsterhuh Huh

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Those Detroit Diesels can really sing. The harder they work the more they sing!!

[@KStewart-th4sk]

LOL You are right about that, when they are under a good load. I know there are 4 Strokers who like to make snide remarks about the old Detroit 2 Strokes BUT i always liked them, just like i do the 2 Cyl. John Deeres.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

@@KStewart-th4sk gotta love the 2 cylinder Deere. Our 1950 R can be heard 3 miles away when it working hard on the blower so the neighbors say.

[@jonelsonster]

💯 agree!

[@KStewart-th4sk]

@@anthonyhengst2908 I don't think the JD R would have a blower? Normally aspirated, as far as i know, unless you have done some modifications from original?

[@anthonyhengst2908]

@@KStewart-th4sk it's what we had at the time , it is what we used. Was it the most efficient?? Probably not but it kept up enough with the chopper. Eventually after a couple of years a 3020 replaced it.

[@gngl7142]

2 stroke diesel. Just a perfection

[@jonelsonster]

Agree!

[@joshuathewelder24]

My grandpa used to work on 6v53 Detroit diesels when he was a firefighter for CAL Fire. Miss him every day. RIP Vapa ❤️🙏🏼

[@jonelsonster]

👍🏻

[@dmckenzie9281]

I grew up on a farm were we planted 50 acres of corn for silage and had about 150 acres of grass hay. I know my way around tractors but never had the pear of a Detroit Diesel. I learned about Detroits work for the fire department for 38 years. When I first started with the fire department many of our fire apparatus were powered by Detroit Diesels. Al of ours were 8V92 or 8V71 and I think we had one 6V92. Those 2 strokes were absolute powerhouses. I missed them when they phased them out.

[@jonelsonster]

Great memories! Thanks for sharing

[@richardvernick4280]

That old Oliver is beautiful. They had so much more built into engineering standards to deliver power to the task.

[@jonelsonster]

They weren't much for creature comforts, but they got the job done!

[@wemedeeres4105]

My grandpa farmed with one for many years, a few years after retiring he sold it because he felt bad it had to sit outside as the shed he had stored it in was falling down. He kicked himself for selling it starting with the day he sold it, I too wish he hadn’t because that was quite a tractor and still one of my favorites!

[@jonelsonster]

Selling anything tied to memories is hard. That's a big reason why I do these videos... Not just for my own memory, but also to help spark memories in other people who might watch them. Thanks for your comment.

[@KStewart-th4sk]

I started working on a Canadian railroad in the late '70's---track maintenance. At that time, pretty well all machines were powered by 2-Cycle Detroit Diesels. 3-53, 4-53, 4-71, 6V-53, 6-71, 6V-71, 8V-71, 8V-92. Only came across one regulator during those years that was powered by an old Cummins, everything else were Detroit 2 Strokes. Our White Fleets that we stayed in would have 2 Detroit powerplants in the generator car that would be alternated each week after running 24-7. I think there were some Deutz plants but the gangs i worked on were all Detroit. The railroad had a lot of Deutz powerplants powering the signal system in remote areas where there was no power available.

[@jonelsonster]

Really cool. The very little I've been around Detroits, I'm impressed with their simplicity and durability.

[@dgrisham6868]

Runs some regulators with 353 and 453 got to keep an eye on the oil. Love to them plow

[@richardschaffling9882]

That tractor sounds great

[@jonelsonster]

It does! 👍🏻

[@larry648]

I loved our old fire engines with 6-71 TAs. They would fly and pump like crazy.

[@jonelsonster]

I wonder which put out more power an inline 6-71 or a 6V-71?

[@larry648]

@@jonelsonster I have no idea. I know they used the V’s on busses for space saving. The back of the busses were always black. We ran the 8V and 12V in big ladder trucks, no turbos. They did the job, but they were no hot rods. It’s hard to get a 100 ft Sutphen moving.

[@larrydavidson3402]

Love the sound of the Detroits.

[@jonelsonster]

Oh yeah, two stroke diesels sound incredible

[@fedup3582]

Screaming jimmies?

[@phillipfreebairn1770]

Chamberlain tractors made in Western Australia back in the 50's to mid 60's used GM 3/71's

[@jonelsonster]

Very cool. I'll have to watch for one of those. Not very common in the US, I'd assume

[@MrOlgrumpy]

There was a SUPER 70 and a SUPER 90,probably never exported beyond Aus and New Zealand. Case bought Chamberlain and closed the plant.

[@joelawrence56]

John Deere bought Chamberlain... built yellow slightly modified Deeres for number of years before closing and reverting to green

[@Bad-Idea-Network]

Hard to get bored with that view.

[@jonelsonster]

What the mountain west lacks in rain is made up with scenery.

[@alspeers6931]

Real tough old outfits, engine looks and sounds great, big tires look cool and beautiful country scenes, noce video with multiple angles of tractor (not just exhaust pipe views) plus can listen to the tractor without some goofy music, thanks bro.

[@jonelsonster]

Thanks 👍 glad you liked it!

[@JS-kd7jf]

Ain't nothing sounds like a good ole 2 stroke DETROIT!!

[@lttl858]

Guess you haven't spent any 12 hr. days listening to those singing Jimmies.

[@jonelsonster]

The sound is unmistakable!

[@KStewart-th4sk]

@@lttl858 Well, i ran an old Tamper on the railroad with a 4-71 back in the late '70's Jimmy in the back and with that particular Canron EJ5 you basically sat almost between 4 electric 3-Phase workheads (2 each side). They were an old machine even then! This was back in the day where nobody heard of earmuffs and by the end of a shift my ears were RINGING; not from the Jimmy, from the workheads.

[@jeffharper7579]

I have said it in the past that's why old farmers have so many kids, wife ask him if he's tired or what he replies what? And as a good husband he does what the wife ask 😆😆😆

[@marleneprokopetz1857]

Yeah, lots of things sound better-much better.

[@ImDirtyDan96]

One of my favorite 71 series Detroits to listen to...I've got a little 8N Ford that somebody shoehorned in a 2-71

[@jonelsonster]

I'd love to see that 2-71 powered 8N!

[@williamlindner3984]

Made back in the day, when we still had a country....

[@jonelsonster]

🇺🇸

[@williamlindner3984]

The tractor, not the video....

[@tedhicks5431]

Great sound

[@jonelsonster]

Agree 💯!

[@WhiteyTheIronMonger]

Thanks for great video. I smiled so big I think I broke something!

[@jonelsonster]

Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you liked it!

[@jamessefton3680]

Those 2 cycles got a great sound I think- cool video👍

[@jonelsonster]

A two stroke diesel is the second coolest sounding engine.... The first being a two cylinder John Deere diesel. 😎

[@tootired76]

Very cool! Why I'm subscribed!

[@jonelsonster]

😎 glad you liked it!

[@Steve-ct4jn]

Gotta love the sound of a Jimmy diesel :)

[@jonelsonster]

👍🏻

[@ShepFL002]

Love it!!

[@jonelsonster]

Thank you!!

[@boatlover2296]

That’s a cool ass tractor

[@jonelsonster]

😎

[@Blazefork]

Got to load em up good and hard to hear that snap.....love the screamin D.

[@jonelsonster]

Agree 💯!

[@LarsDcCase]

Nice to see that old Oliver running. Really should have a muffler on that loud two stroke though. I hope the operator is wearing ear plugs. That is a good way to damage one's hearing.

[@jonelsonster]

You're very right!

[@mer58lin]

A 990 was the first tractor I got to drive in the 60's, I was around 8 yrs. old. Dad pulled a 6-14s Oliver trailer plow in the clay knobs of washtenaw county,Mi. He traded it off in '72 for a 1466 and 7-16s. After we had moved to branch county. The previous winter we had it on the manure spreader under the cow barn gutter cleaner and a spark from the muffler got into the straw mow and caught some bales on fire, we got the fire out and saved the barn. It was used mostly for pulling a John deere "cultimultcher", the Oliver disk and, the m spreader until it was traded.

[@jonelsonster]

Sounds like you had a pretty nice set up!

[@mer58lin]

@@jonelsonster Thank You, we did,Things went Well until the mid eighties.

[@danw6014]

Yep i have an Allis Chalmers HD5 dozer with a 2-71. If you put it against something to heavy for it to push, it will spin the tracks.

[@jonelsonster]

There is a guy out here who has a couple HD-5s too. He'll pull with them at the fair and that little crawler just keeps going. Here is a clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZKwgJaNnrd7iM0si=HnawDUIC5BNKV3rw

[@KStewart-th4sk]

The railroad shop i eventually ended up working at had an engine dyno that the guy rebuilding the Detroit's tested them on. Another commenter made the remark about them "singing". Well, you could sure hear them "sing" when he put them under full load on the dyno. I did a couple of 4-53's and tested them. I was supposed to spend a few months with him as part of training but got screwed out of that as soon as the machines came back in the fall. I wasn't very happy about that but "no, we need you back on the floor" and i never did get a chance to work with him again. We eventually started seeing JD, Cummins, etc. Then the POINTY HEADS quit rebuilding engines at the shop and that DYNO sat idle for years, not being used. Such a waste! I retired and the dyno was still there, maybe still is! Also had our own hydraulic dept., lapping machine, and 2 Test Benches BUT that was all shut down too and everything sold. All that was contracted out---engine rebuilding, hyd. pumps, motors, cylinders. Gee almost forgot, before that we rebuilt starters and alternators too, had a test stand for that etc. Lost all that as well.

[@jonelsonster]

That's a heartbreaking story. It's sad to hear about valuable knowledge and equipment being downsized

[@mystic24100]

I grew up on a farm and for a time we had a custom grinding truck come out to grind feed. Don’t know what engine he had but I could hear him coming two miles away.

[@jonelsonster]

The roar of a GM diesel always puts a smile on my face... And a ringing in my ears! 😂

[@mikeandcolleenk9831]

They dont make them like they use to , nice@

[@jonelsonster]

Agree 💯

[@zackmax7184]

My Uncle is dead now, but He used to have an Oliver Tractor Kinda like that. I think it had a Tricycle Front End on it.

[@jonelsonster]

Oliver made a cool tractor

[@rustyshackleford1656]

Don’t be afraid to twist it up into the high rpm’s they’re built for it and it’s actually less stress on the crank

[@jonelsonster]

Good comment. I've heard people talk about higher rpm and reduced stress on the crank. And I'm kind of up in the air on that. Not really sure how higher rpm reduces load (and consequently stress) on the crank. I am NOT an expert on these old Detroits,but in my mind, higher rpm induced more load on the crank, from a dynamic standpoint...alll of that mass spinning around at higher speed doesn't reduce load. Plus the valvetrain doesn't like higher speed. I would love to talk to one of the designers of these engines from back in the 30s and hear what they thought.

[@rustyshackleford1656]

@@jonelsonster my only knowlage of that comes from seeing it happen a few times on farm equipment with Detroit’s. They tended to wear prematurely or damage the cranks when put under a load and lugging them. Plus they’re designed to actually make peak power basically right where the governor is maxed at, never seen one be torn up from running them hard that’s for sure

[@alspeers6931]

I thought Chamberlain tractors from Australia also used Detroit diesels.

[@shannonburns6724]

IH, Chamberlin, Oliver, Massey Ferguson, even John Deere used Jimmy Diesels.

[@jonelsonster]

I've never heard of a Chamberlain tractor... I'll have to look them up!

[@xrcr12x]

This explains why old farmers had hearing loss.

[@jonelsonster]

Spot on!

[@Robert-gs6cr]

Perfect a green leaker in a green tra tor.

[@jonelsonster]

Oil leaks ensure you always put new fresh oil in the engine. So actually it's a bonus!

[@danielnoriega2532]

Desde argentina un amigo tiene una camioneta Dodge 200 con un Detroit 2 tiempo 3 cilindros con bomba de barrido imparable. Súper rápida.

[@jonelsonster]

That would be a cool truck to see, or rather hear, drive by!

[@KStewart-th4sk]

Forgot to mention that the Detroit 2-Stroke would slobber oil if left sitting idling too much. With all that air flowing thru the air box from the blower, they would cool off real fast. In my opinion, it was better to shut them off rather than let sit and idle.

[@jonelsonster]

They certainly are in interesting engine. Very cool engineering!

[@darrowlinn7407]

As a kid I always heard you only ran them wide open. Never idle a Detroit engine

[@jonelsonster]

@@darrowlinn7407 no matter where the throttle is set, it sounds like it's wide open! 😅

[@joeraymond5241]

If it ain't a cat it's a fog

[@jonelsonster]

Not sure what you mean by this

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

This is the engine they should have put in the Massy Fergusen 1805 but should have been the Greyhound bus engine. V-8 8-71.

[@jonelsonster]

I saw one comment that referred to this engine as a mini bus motor! 😆😆

[@Adriaantjuh7]

8 speed transmission? 3hi, 3low and high/low reverse? And that with only one gear stick/lever..

[@jonelsonster]

That's the way most all old Olivers were

[@nigelgwillim644]

nice have 1800a and 1900a in uk

[@jonelsonster]

I bet there aren't many of those in the UK!

[@nigelgwillim644]

@@jonelsonster i no of one actually

[@TKM1951]

Hearing protection

[@jonelsonster]

They are loud, that's for sure.

[@markdanielczyk944]

What?!

[@MrOlgrumpy]

WAH ?

[@BogTrotter]

Straight-pipe Jimmy with no ear muffs! What?

[@jonelsonster]

Ha ha!

[@oldsteamguy]

Nice tractor, but why is the shutdown out of the reach of the driver?

[@jonelsonster]

That's the emergency shutdown increase the engine tries to run away. It is connected to a cable the driver can pull.

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

Put it in some ground that hasent been worked

[@jonelsonster]

We plowed for about 6 hours this day. Most all of it was in corn stubble that had a thick layer of manure spread over it last fall. Go to 2:51 and you can see it. Also 4:31.

[@deweydodo6691]

tail wheel tire is flat

[@jonelsonster]

It's more than flat.... It's cracked and has holes in it. But it still plows fine.

[@antonioferrari40]

Este hombre no conoce su tractor , ni su arado.

[@jonelsonster]

Do you know his tractor better?

[@KStewart-th4sk]

That statement requires an explanation.

[@boomer1049]

Loud and poor gear spacing!😂

[@jonelsonster]

Ha ha ha!

[@EricMayberry-qb7bt]

When you've worked them almost your whole life it Doesn't Bother you ❤ Ha what was that. 😊

[@jonelsonster]

So true!

[@kodru27MC]

You should take your 830 and r to a tractor pull would be a fun

[@jonelsonster]

That's the plan. We have a couple of tractor pulls this summer and we want to pull both tractors.

[@kodru27MC]

@@jonelsonster can’t wait