Russian tractor

[Cap63]

Corn, wheat, sunflower and I among them

 

[milkman]

Good looking crops, if they are this year, the corn is way ahead of crop here. We were late getting crops in here because of rain and corn is now maybe waist high. Enjoy the pics, be sure to post some of harvest.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

Very nice looking corn, wheat & sunflowers!

Yes we had a lot of rain here is Kentucky, and i was 2 weeks behind getting my seed in the ground.... But everything is growing great now.

Thanks for the pics.!

 

[Cap63]

DT-75

 

[czechsonofagun]

It reminds me the USSR sign of quality product: Cdelano rukami nogami no bez golovy.

With all due respect I have seen too many Russian products to have any respect at all. Typically a copy of some western machine - BMW-Dnepr, engine for T34, old Volga.... with worse parameters and much worse material would brake all the time and the only way the great eastern brother would fix it would be to make it bigger. LOL, that really has nothing to do with quality engineering!

 

[tugboat-2]

Cap63 : ....very interesting collection of photos,..thanks for sharing them with us. When I checked your bio,..I found your avatar was animated and I got quite a bang out of it !! Especially the way it eventually got moving. Just a little bit at first. Wasn't sure if it was just my eyes playing tricks, then it moved again and finally speeded up and I nearly fell off my chair laughing!!! Thanks again!

CHEERS!
. . tug

 

[Redneck in training]

My late father was a machinist and maintenance supervisor for a company that used quite few Russian made machines such as bulldozers, trenchers, backhoes etc. Problem was that, due to typical communist mismanagement, there were no spare part to buy. So all parts were made in the shop my father managed. Since many tractors were copies of machines made in the USA only nuts and bolts were metric and the rest of dimensions we in "imperial" units. It was impossible to use standard sizes in example for reamers or drill bits. They had to be custom made. In other words the machines were maintenance nightmare.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Very same experience, Ladia. On a related topic, I remember seeing russian military convoy on a highway - truck wheels had sideways play about 2 inches, we almost drove of the road laughing. And in the Czechoslovakia army in joint exercises with Ivans you would see things you would not believe. Balsaja zemlja, nas mnogo, LOL

 

[Cap63]

I show a photo of tractors of the former USSR.They are still used.But now has much appeared the western samples and the USA.This for example costs near to DT-75 to that on a photo above.

 

[Cap63]

T-34.One more tractor