Oliver Super 99 Plowing - Detroit Diesel

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

2 stroke diesel. Just a perfection

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

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

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

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

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.

That tractor sounds great

Love the sound of the Detroits.

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.

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.

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

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.