That’s a bit of history there, that someone spent some time going through the junkyards updating to some later model stuff. Might not be factory, but the factory doesn’t supply for all applications LOL.

That D8 reminds me of an operation just south of Los Banos, CA near the Dos Amigos pumping plant that had a small fleet of 2U’s for discing and subsoiling, I can’t exactly recall what they had for cabs (this was 25 years ago +/-) I do recall hydraulic driven blowers on the cabs for pressurization.

Can some one tell me what the original horse power of this unit was when it came off the assembly line?

By Rack Setting Chart.....149 Brake Hp, 130 Drawbar hp.

Thank you OM, I will be putting a plow behind it this fall during the WMSTR show at Rollag over the Labor day weekend. So far that is where this unit will be living. This well pieced together unit is just a fun thing to look at and wonder how many hours it took to do this.

Back in 1976 we had a very wet Sept. Still a lot of grain farming in Paso Robles area, and summer fallow. Had a cousin working for a fellow farming with a D6 C as the main tractor but also had a 2u D8 mainly used with the blade. Wanting to cover the summer fallow quickly they pressed the D8 into farming. Of course the D8 had rear cable unit and not hydraulics. So they figured out to hook the cable up to close a drag type offset disc they used behind the D6, and put the D6 on the field cultivator. I don't know just which D6 C model, and the D8 was a bit tired at the time. All claimed the D8 struggled to pull the same load as the D6.