I worked on the Tripple D's and the 130's as a agricultural apprentice for Cleales of Haverhill. Thank you for posting.

I was a UK Ford Tractor apprentice, on getting married we left for Western Australia, tandems, as they were known had been very popular but sales were declining due to the import of large horsepower tractors from America. A local dealer became agents for Fiat''s and their tandems based on the Fiat 615 these were beautiful conversions and were mighty impressive to watch especially when chaining, that is clearing bush by dragging a huge ship's anchor chain between a 615 and a crawler at speed.

If you go to a field day or ploughing match in the UK and its still very common to see a Triple D in action where they are always a pleasure to observe.   There are usually 2-3 being demonstrated at the large annual Doe show in Essex held every February.   They remain a very collectable tractor by enthusiasts.

We had both the fordson crawler and a triple d on our farm

Intresting to see we had simialr builds done on Volvo BM tractors here in Sweden which was a popular sight from the mid 1950's until the 1980's when the 4WD regular designs had become much more of a standard.
The largest one built on Volvo BM was Dual BM T479 Bison with an combined power of 147hp.

I'm in Alberta Canada. My Dad bought  2  International  WD9 tractors coupled together with one of those frames. I operated it quite a bit, it was good to operate once you got used to it, changing gears was fairly easy. We still have it, but it's been sitting idle for many years now.

I remember when some of the knock offs showed up in Canada, with one such that had David Browns driven from the front with a trailing unit pushing it. That one could be disconnected and the front unit used conventionally. The upshot though was that the manufacturers decided that if more HP and traction was required then a bigger motor and FWD would be less trouble to make and service, witness the County 6 and powered steers. Pretty soon everybody was doing it.

Although a non farming Townie, The engineer in me found this fascinating. Thanks for putting the video together and telling this fascinating story.

Watched this with my dad who was an agricultural engineer. Both really loved it, well done lad 👍

I found that very interesting, I’m local to Ulting and used to work with someone who owned a Triple D in preservation. Also i’m frequently in Doe’s collecting or dropping construction plant in there so I knew a little about them but this video has taught me a lot more. Cheers

The farm I grew up on, had one of the early models, with the early gear change arrangement, and then later on, another with a pair of 5000's..

When I was a lad in the late 70s my uncles farm in Essex had an early one of these beasts parked up in the back of the tractor shed. It had run since the late 60s when something major had broken on it. I was always fascinated by it, then one time we visited, all his old unused tractors had gone. I didn't see another one until about 20 years ago when I saw one working at at ploughing competition. Those are the only two I've ever seen.

A local man has 2 MF165s built on the same principle , very well balanced tractor to drive

i'm a blue fan.  triple ds were the nuts.  but the single-engined, countys with the four huge wheels were the most beautiful thing ever to come out of essex ;-)

I was very proud to have recently been commissioned to make a weathervane for  George Pryor's daughter.

Love it.  My father told me we had one on demo around 1960.

I currently work for Ernestdoe 😊 Remarkable machines for their time.

Thank you for a wonderful explanation of these unusual and remarkable machines, I love the ingenuity that brought about their creation. Also the amazing footage included is a step back or two to a time long passed but still remembered?!

Was fascinated when I saw one of these for the first time at a show a few years back, great to finally learn exactly what it was. Great quality video, fascinating too. 👏

This was the most interesting video I've seen in years and a great lot of knowledge about an Iconic tractor ❤