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I have the D8L -SA build sheet somewhere, I just have to find what box it ended up after a few moves and potential moves. I believe the L SA’s were exchanged for Deere 9400T’s when they came out if I remember the story correctly. The company was also shipping them to be used at their NSW Australia farm operations as well.
Juiceman ripping in a growing orchard... that sounds like a good way to remove all the buried drip or sprinkler lines. I guess my grandfather tried that in an Almond orchard that wouldn’t take water ( furrow irrigation days) in the late 60’s with a D7 and the driver said he looked back and saw the ripper pulling out trees as soon as he put it into the ground. Later they used a AC-Oxnard 400 with only the center shank behind the D4D or 7U.
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TomTrack, Are you sure you aren't thinking of Glen's 49A D-9? He didn't own a 46A D-8 that I ever knew of while at the SM tractor show. He had a couple of 36A's though and a few 14A's too.
Gee, it sure looks like a H model D-8 to me.
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Thanks for all the info Wombat. What is this marine clutch? Pardon the newbie questions but it has a conventional powershift transmission that uses planetaries for gear reduction but no old school countershaft type transmission? And the marine clutch is in ot out and no slippage like a normal TC? And what about the 76V and 36 series? Were they the same way or similar to an old 14A etc...?
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One weakness was they did not handle high tongue weight well. In the 1980's something called a Yielder no till seed drill became some what popular in dryland wheat and barely seeding. A 20 foot wide model held more than 20 ton of seed and fertilizer plus the drill was a heavy thing itself. A operation running D8H 36a's decided that was not enough tractor and rented a D8L SA tractor to pull one. Was a consent battle to keep the rear rollers/idlers in D8L. Did not take many years to decide that was not the seeding outfit they wanted.
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CR that last picture in the cab looking out at the other 2 machines is great You’re really covering some acreage there!
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