Bang! Bang! Tractor?

Brian Dixon · Apr 8, 2014

Hi, Sorry for the funky subject line... but I have a serious question and don't know where to start my research. Back in Oregon (Corvallis/Albany area), there was a fellow there who used an antique (or at least older?) tractor to do his farming ...and the thing would make this loud "Bang! Bang! Bang!" exhaust noise ...loud like a gun going off. You could hear it for miles. To me, it sounded like a large single cylinder tractor without much for an exhaust system. Does anyone have the slightest clue on what this tractor might be? I have a little dream that I'll go down there sometime, noting that I live in Alaska, and see if he'd like to sell that tractor so I could restore it. He's gotta be getting old now... Anyone have a clue on what this tractor might be?

ShadetreeRet · Apr 9, 2014

Did you ever actually see the tractor, and if so, can you describe it as to color and anything else you remember?

D beatty · Apr 9, 2014

Sound like it might be a Field Marshal or Lantz tractor. They made single cylinder diesel engines.

DeltaRed · Apr 9, 2014

Landini also had a single cylinder 'semi' diesel. When I was a kid a man used to talk of the big single cylinder farmtractor they had in the northwest.Said that thing could be heard for 'miles'...

mkirsch · Apr 9, 2014

Could be any of the Deere two-cylinders, too. Those things can make some pretty loud POPs!

Leroy · Apr 9, 2014

Sounds like the Field Marshal

Ron in Nebr · Apr 9, 2014

Twenty years ago I heard what I thought sounded like a huge tractor engine coming from the north of our place. Whomp Whomp Whomp Whomp...sounded just like a two cylinder JD being pulled hard. No neighbors for miles, so I couldn't figure out what the heck I was hearing. A few minutes later an army helicopter appeared, flying really low.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 9, 2014

sounds like the JD D that always gets parked next to the reviewin stand at the tractor pulls. Busted manifold helps make the bang extra loud, LOL!

36F30 · Apr 9, 2014

This is a vid of my 34 John Deere GP, it goes bang bang.
It is not under a load in this vid but she really cracks em off under load. Brings in the crowds at plow demo's cause its slow and loud.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/35315392@N08/9522074238/

jerrybigrig · Apr 10, 2014

Maby it was the Beatles you Hurd" bang bang Maxwell silver hammer" ???? Haaaaa...

LittleD · Apr 10, 2014

Sounds like ...Rumely Oil Pull........

Brian Dixon · Apr 18, 2014

OK ...We"re going to be heading down there (Oregon) this summer (we live in Alaska), so maybe I"ll get a chance to swing by the guy"s farm and see what he"s got up close. I do appreciate all the help from you folks. Wish I could find a video of some of those tractors that you mentioned while under a heavy plow load. The "bang bang" was definitely slow, like one bang every 3/4 second or so ...and you could definitely hear it for miles. It was not like a rifle bang, but a very loud exhaust bang, a nice sharp sound. I do recall that the neighbor who had an antique John Deere told me that it was not a JD, that it was an old "such and such" (can"t recall what he said). It"s look and shape was similar to a JD if I recall but living on the far side of the field and having another field between us, I never got a close look at it. It might"ve been green ...or some other darker color. I think it had rubber tires, not steel. It did not have a big box on the front end like the Rumely Oil puller etc. Dunno...

Thanks,
Brian

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