Matt Kirsch Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 We had a Fox Super D with the Continental gas engine for less than a year when I was small. I'm talking late 70's. Dad bought it from a dealer auction with a little goading from my uncle. Pretty sure we only had 2 tractors at the time. We might have had the 560 by then. I think it used ALL the gas, and turned most of it into noise. If you think a kid sitting in their grandfather's lap on the seat of a 1066 is unsafe, imagine two pre-Kindergarten age boys riding on the steps of an open station1 Fox Super D! I don't think we rode much but we did ride on that machine, while he was chopping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 10 hours ago, Big Bud guy said: How long and how big did Gehl make SP choppers? I pulled this out of a mid 50s brochure judging by the tractors in the brochure. Ya Waukesha is another one popular around here. I guess operator comfort wasn’t too high on the list of design priorities for that machine. Whoever ran that probably could still feel their bones rattling when they went to sleep at night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyIH Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 My grandfather has a fox super d he bought new. It had the continental gas engine and he said you had to keep the fuel truck in the field with it. The continental was replaced with a 671 Detroit with a straight pipe that could be heard for more miles. As primitive as it looks now, he said it was the Cadillac at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny bill o Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 3 hours ago, Gearclash said: Is that the flathead 427 or the OHV? The exhaust manifold on yours looks different than other 427s I’ve seen. They all had two separate pipes coming off the manifold and I think they were entirely behind the hood tin. flathead. I bought it in 1977, so had it when we started farming on our own in 1980. At the time, my big tractor was a JD 3010, so the Fox was a big jump in Hp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleman Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I don't see an issue with the large cube gas engines. International ran the RD450 I6 GAS engine from 49 to the 60's is some very large on and off road equipment. We currently run a 454 CI V8 engine in work truck. I would never swap it to a diesel because the all weather starting is worth more than fuel cost savings. Many city transit buses swapped out Cummins 8.3 diesels to 8.3 LNG/LP engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsaIHCs Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Speaking of fuel consumption...I used to work for a guy who's big tractor was a Versatile 125. 391 Ford gas. I was pulling either the 30 foot field cultivator or the 20 foot chisel plow when it stalled. The owner got mad at me for running it out of gas. It had no gas gauge and I was under the impression that he had filled it before I started that day. He told me that it burned 13 gallons an hour so by noon it had burned 52 gallons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Minded Farmer Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 2 hours ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said: I guess operator comfort wasn’t too high on the list of design priorities for that machine. Whoever ran that probably could still feel their bones rattling when they went to sleep at night. That rattling gives you a massage & helps you ignore the ringing in the ears so you can sleep at night. Mike 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Ran RD 501 in two mixer trucks R 210 I think. Also 531 or 541 White flat head six in an Autocar. Friend ran road tractor with IH 549 V8 would pass most everything. Also 534 Ford V8 in single axle dump had sufficient power for hills. The oil embargo in 73 killed them off in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHKeith Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I worked on a old 3 phase standalone generator with a gasoline Buda inline 6, think it was about 340 ci, it was thirsty but powerful My Grampy had the later Gehl Chop King with the 6 cylinder gas, I never saw it run but it sat in the fence row for years, if I remember the story right it's biggest downfall in it's prime was collecting corn leaves which created a fire hazard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 10 hours ago, Gearclash said: Does anyone know for sure what the Case 377 gas was rated for hp that went in I believe the Case 900 and 930 tractors? I ask because we used to have a Case wheel loader with that engine. I guessed it to be around 90 hp. We used it to push silage which was a pretty power hungry job and it would burn right at 5 gallons an hour doing that. The gas and diesels were pretty much the same according to the Nebraska tests. Took me awhile to find them because apparently the gas versions were labeled 940 and 941. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 18 hours ago, Absent Minded Farmer said:. If you're interested, there's a book out there on the history of Gehl called, "Three Generations of Success, Gehl Company 1859 - 2009". It makes for a good read & there are some great photos in there too. They had quite the run. Mike Just ordered a copy off of eBay. Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bud guy Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 10 hours ago, Gearclash said: Field Queen must have plagiarized their forage harvester layout from this contraption. I had to google up Field Queen and I see what you mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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