John Deere Model 420 dozer starting and reving

[wcsaltydogg]

beautiful...and with a complete 3 pt!!!

[wi11y1960]

Just waiting for junior to slip it in gear!

[TheDennislaws]

Well you learn everyday.. if it is an Austrailian model, maybe they didn't sell those here in the states.. still a sweet crawler.

[OzzInter]

@TheDennislaws

US built, but perhaps specially prepared for the local market.

"Power Kerosene", now unavailable, was once the preferred choice of Australian farmers. Straight petrol (gasoline) was the popular choice in the US

[TheDennislaws]

Well it does have a dozer mounted on it.. The outside mount type. John Deere made an outside and an inside frame dozer for the 420, 430, and 440, also I doubt its Kerosene.. All the Deere crawlers Ive had were equipped with gas 2cyl engines.. Kerosene was avaliable on some models, but Im not aware of the 420 crawler ever being one..

[alwaysoffroad]

@TheDennislaws Is certainly Kerosene. You start it on petrol then switch to power kerosene allthough it is getting hard to come by and very expensive nowdays in australia

[OzzInter]

@alwaysoffroad

John Deere called it an "All Fuel" engine.

In Australia it was called a "Petrol Kero" engine.

In Britain it was called a TVO (Tractor Vapourising Oil) engine

Some US manufacturers referred to this a "distillate" engine which confusing to us Australians who use the term"distillate" to mean diesel fuel

[OzzInter]

@TheDennislaws

JD made a "dual fuel" option on 320 wheeled tractor.

There were a few of them imported to Australia.

In Australia "power kerosene" was the prefered option before diesels became common.

The local "power kerosene" was a higher quality than most kerosene sold in other parts of the world and cheaper than petrol (gasoline)

Commercially available to 1974.

[rebal442]

man id love one

[millman26]

Love how she grins as she pulls that throttle open ..Very cute kid and nice lookin dozer..

[ShawnCFarm]

Love that sound.

[Movingvolations]

Love it

[norand12]

those run great we have 4 that we push snow on our 2 mile double wide lane at our palce they run great

[johndeereman567]

you do realize that this is a crawler tractor,

not a dozer.

[alwaysoffroad]

Yeah I know, I have a bad habbit of calling anything with tracks and a blade a dozer. I am not the machinery nut, my friend who owns this has allready reamed me out over calling it a dozer.....Haha

[OzzInter]

@johndeereman567

Don't go to Canada, they call all crawlers "Cats", regardless of brand.

"Bull-Dozer" or "Dozer" is the Australian nick-name for crawler tractors

[johndeereman567]

@OzzInter yea i no man u aint even gota go to canada they call em cats n the northern part of america where i live which is the southern part of north america we either call it a dozer or a bulldozer and if its a crawler tractor like the one n this video we just call it a tractor

[OzzInter]

@johndeereman567

In Australia people tend to call CRAWLER tractors "Dozers"

In Canada people nickname them "Cats", regardless of the brand.

[Boomer617]

Too bad you painted the yellow stripe industrial yellow instead of ag yellow

[mddeeredude]

ditto

[danielgosson]

I was driving trucks & a front end loader before I drove a car. When I finally went to a professional driving instructor to get my car license he asked "Why are you swinging so wide on the corners?' Id never driven anything so small as a car.

[cheeptorque]

Great lil dozer..bets before long she will be operating it!

*****

[alwaysoffroad]

Yeah I believe kids should learn respect for machinery aat an early age as it makes them more safety aware. I learned to drive a tractor at 9 and a car at 11 and was operating frontend loaders and a D6 dozer when I was 13, you can never start to young. Steves 9 year old son operates a small frontend loader already and drives an old Datsun station wagon.

[cheeptorque]

Im all for getting them involved..specially when you have all the gear parked around them..

Have you seen my 8yr old on my digger video??..He can drive my bobcat but cause its hands n feet controls, Im waitin for his legs to grow so he can learn to operate it..

Great vid..more of them would be good.

[alwaysoffroad]

Unfortunatly this will be my last video from Australia for a long time, Leave on Friday for 2 years of Canadian roads, snow, ice driving on the wrong side of the road, all thoughs kind of fun things.

I intend to keep the vids coming though, as I'm taking 3 cameras with me.

[cheeptorque]

I though you had already gone..but noticed this new vid.

Ill be watchin your channel for ur new Canadian series of truckin and adventure vids.

Have a safe flight mate and safe travels..

Maybe you can make it to the Dallas truck show (August/Sept).Me and me mate Puppet might be there too!

Good luck with it all..Take care

Simon.

[cheeptorque]

(opps I meant 6 yr old..not 8.He was 6 at the time but he just had his 7th birthday last week)

[Puppet6475]

cool old dozer..probably be worth a few bucks?..