Mr Blackburn's tractor is a tribute to American plough tractors from the 1950s. Video by Rhys Tarling.
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00:00Colin Blackburn here. What I've made here is a tribute to the American Fair plough tractors from the 1950s where
00:08Henry Ford was making these on
00:11license for Harry Ferguson and the good old boys had put
00:16Flathead V8s in them to win the ploughing competition at the State Flare and it would go from a 18, 19,
00:2220 horsepower engine to a 90 horsepower engine. They'd go out and win the ploughing competition and then
00:29rebuild the gearbox that night, but for about five years
00:32they used to win nearly every ploughing competition at all the state fairs through the Bible Belt of America where they were the most
00:40popular. Cool. Would you be able to start the tractor for us, mate? Yeah, I can start it.
00:56Sounds good.
00:58All
01:01pretty standard stuff. There's no performance stuff. It's just standard carburettors that's standard for 1952 and the tractor is completely standard for
01:091951.