Tractor!

[abaddonxi]

RARE LANZ BULLDOG 12-20 Tractor, Old, Collectable - eBay, Tractors, Heavy Machinery, Farming, Agriculture, Business, Industrial. (end time 08-Mar-09 17:49:41 AEDST) (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200314465452&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BID_IT&refitem=200314464044&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%26itu%3DUCI%2 52BSI%26otn%3D4)


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/03/1238.jpg

[V8Ian]

These things are awesome, 10.5 litre 2 stroke. The tacho reads r.p. hour :o
Stand next to one whilst it is idling, the earth does move!!

[dmdigital]

Stand next to one whilst it is idling, the earth does move!!
But not when you have a severe head cold or a hang over... Now that was unpleasant on both occasions :(


Fantastic at tractor pull's at field days.

[rick130]

The Lanz Bulldog was a tractor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor) manufactured by Heinrich Lanz AG (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php'title=Heinrich_Lanz_AG&action=edit&redlink=1) in Mannheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim), Baden-Württemberg, Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany). Production started in 1921 and various versions of the Bulldog were produced up to 1960. Deere & Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deere_%26_Company) purchased Lanz in 1956 and started using the name "John Deere Lanz" for the Lanz product line. A few years after the Bulldog was discontinued, the Lanz name fell into disuse.
The Bulldog was an inexpensive, simple and easy to maintain vehicle. This was chiefly due to its simple power source: a two-stroke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stroke) hot bulb engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_bulb_engine) single cylinder horizontal engine. Initially the engine was a 6.3 litre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre), 12 horsepower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower) unit, but as the Bulldog evolved this was increased to 10.9 litres and 54 horsepower. While hot bulb engines were crude , they were easy to maintain and could burn a wide variety of low grade oils –even waste oils.
The Bulldog was one of the most popular German tractors, with over 250,000 of them produced in its long production life.From here
Lanz Bulldog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Hot bulb engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_bulb_engine


An older mate who grew up on the land has mentioned these things a few times now, it's good to put a picture to the name.

[jimbo110]

I wonder what is so special about this one that makes it "the only one in Australia"?

[V8Ian]

I wonder what is so special about this one that makes it "the only one in Australia"?

Advertising hype?

[V8Ian]

The other "only one in Australia" is a much better colour.

[Bigbjorn]

Don't know about that particular model, but there are hundreds of the things regularly seen at old machinery field days. I don't think anyone who had to work one would want to collect and restore one. They were a fair bitch to get going on a cold morning. The vaporising bulb had to be warmed up, mallee root, gidyea, brigalow fires underneath, blow torches, etc. Oftimes they would be turned down to slow idle and left chug chug all night in frosty districts rather than go through the labour of cold starting. The advent of press button starting was the death knell of these and other hard to start machines.

[Tote]

And growing up on a farm in the seventies I never saw one running until many years later. Maybe they were all stuck up the back paddock to rust by then.
Plenty of Fordson Dextas and Majors, Internationals and Ferguson 35/65s though.
Regards,
Tote