Doe Tractor Plough Day
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- In 1958 Ernest Doe and sons of Ulting, Essex adopted an idea of a local farmer and join two Fordson Major tractors together into a single, high horse power unit capable of working the heavy Essex soils. They went on to build around 300 over a number of years before larger tractors became available in the market place. In this video we wind back the clock to the early 1960's and see how the Doe tractor performed on the plough in heavy soils.
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Having spent a lifetime in agricultural engineering, self employed, I have to say what a heart warming, superb video this has been. Only discovered you today and now hooked. To see these old machines at work on this tough livery soil makes one wonder why the huge modern very heavy, very expensive tractors are such a good buy. Hats off to the people who give up their time to keep these old timers going.
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It always blows my mind for how someone even imagined putting 2 tractors together like that. Pretty cool
Glad you enjoyed it.
In this time of doom an gloom i enjoyed it very much, thank you.
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It was my Mum's cousin, George Pryor of Nazeing who made the first one and approached Does with his prototype concept tractor.
Do you know how he had the idea? There are similar conversion in other countries I have visited and I often wonder which came first.
Another great video! Powerful machines from sixty odd years ago that were affordable!
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Brilliant video again.. It's great to see these machines out working. They held their own very well in tough conditions 👏 Regards from Ireland. Alan
Thanks Alan. it was a great morning behind the camera.
My first memory of the DDD was in the early/mid seventies when I used to see one drive past my village primary school. I have been fascinated with them ever since. Great video and great to see these coming together for this event.
Thanks for sharing!
Another fantastic video thanks. Ive always been facinated bay the Doe Triple-D + Roadless, County, Muir hill etc
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for posting up another excellent video tonight.
The Doe's always look so clumsy but they are so nimble and manoeuvrable as I witnessed the Dancing Doe's team at the Blue Force 1000 show at Newark back in 2014.
The drivers certainly knew just how to put on a fantastic display of how they performed in an amazing display of agility and manoeuvrablity to music.
I was very surprised to there were no flocks of gulls following all those ploughs in one large working display field.
They're certainly a unique tractor and it's good to see them still working and being preserved for the future.
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The farm I grew up on, on the Essex Suffolk border in the 60s and 70s, had one of the early DDD, (you had to buy a pair of new Majors first, that were then built up)which involved in putting the front tractor in gear first, but was converted later on, and then another with a pair of 5000's, with a cab, with the lift up front window, I they were German made..☝
Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
The description of the cab sounds like a Frirzmeir cab
Very interesting video. Good to see the old girls in action.
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Très belle video, ce fut un vrai régal de la visionner ...
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Fine video .Great to see them at work in challenging soils.
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Great vid! I'm completely fascinated by those machines
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Cracking video. No shiny paint on exhaust manifolds in that field! A pity about the Dominator stood on the headland.
You need a bigger shed!
Without a doubt, best ploughing video to date on any video, giving every tractor a good blow out, might be nice to put some other makes of triple d's to some tough going with a big plough, like those Ferguson/Masseys .
Thanks 👍. If I get the chance to video any of the other conversions you will see them on here for sure.
just brill. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it.
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Great video a brilliant gripping tractor plus manoeuvrable .
I built a replicar Doe with two super majors 3year ago and a poor mans doe in 1963 based on a460 Nuffield with a drawbar and a 6 cylinder BMC engine pulled by a Massey 178 It did the job .
Those tractors would make a good video!
We always had Derek pearson from twinstead come in with one of his triple Ds to plough 200 acres every year back in the early 70 s.He finished up using a hungarian dutra.
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a very nice 130 with east Yorkshire reg.
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Superb Video 👌 although they built bigger models using Ford 5000 and Ford 7000 skid units there is no better sound than 2E1A Majors working hard with the engines just about running in perfect harmony 💪💪💪👌
The sound of the two engines running together is like music!
Could watch them old girls all day thank you
No problem. Thanks.
Fantastic tractors the does I live not far from where they were made ! The smaller roadless is a 78 I think ? But again a great video great to see the does !
Thanks, I didn't realise that.
The smaller roadless is a 98 but fitted with a TW20 6cyl engine
@@paulhird3050 Thanks for letting us know the details.
Great video, thank you for posting, looks like some strong Essex clay soil.
I used to love the smell of Kerosene Tractors, I now get my fix from Gas turbine helicopters
Would a multi furrow reversible plough be too heavy for a Triple D tractors?
Turbine fuel always reminds me of TVO as well. The best way to put a heavy plough behind a doe might be to use a tool carrier. I think Doe made one. Alternatively, a Crawford plough would be good.
The local farmer was George Pryor.
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We had a Roadless 115 at the time.
Great tractor
What is the most gain?
Will one of these Does do twice the work of the base tractors they are built of?
If one Ford 5000 can pull a three furrow plough in this ground can a Doe pull a six furrow plough at the same speed?
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Was George pryor any relation to Cecil pryor the Harlow plant gentleman
Like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube!
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too wet for ploughing!
That is the story of the UK this spring.
put the tractor 🚜 😊 in 1ST gear then change 2 the low side if it wont pull the plough then U will a sub low or 4WD 😮😮 OMG 5 21 2O24