Eddie Sydenstricker's Cajun Queen John Deere 4020 Pulling Tractor with Famous 466 Engine
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2017
- Machinery Pete visits Sydenstrickers John Deere dealership in Mexico, MO and gets the story on the "Cajun Queen", famous 1970 John Deere 4020 pulling tractor with the custom made 466 engine
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This clip should be played at every Ag finance school across the country. Valuable life lessons, for any era, or time.
Probably your best interview. Eddie’s success is obviously due to his integrity and passion.
Thanks for sharing the story. It was nice to hear what Eddie had to say. He is very proud of his dealerships and rightly so. It was amazing what the big ag companies were doing back in the late 60’s and early 70’s during the horsepower race.
Wish you could do a video on the Allis Chalmers pulling division. Yes Allis had a team dedicated to tractor pulling back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. First 2 stage turbo engine for the pulling circuit was developed by that team and the Quad Squad consisting of Norm Green, Al Koch and John Landcaster. By 1977 Norn Green's "Deereslayer" D21 was using 4 turbos in three pressure stages.
I've known this man Eddy since the 80s. Wonderful man. I worked with John Deere for 25 years from Texas to Missouri. My grandpa and grandma Sam and Daisey Grabb knew him also as they had a farm in Williamsburg back in the 60s and 70s. Seems like me and Eddie would always get together whenever in the same place. Eddie would love to see you again if I ever make it up that way.
I've known Eddie my whole life. I was born in Mexico ,MO in 1972. My Father worked for Eddie for 8 years, my uncle Sam worked for Eddie for 32 years, and my Uncle John was his service manager for 30 years. Yes, Eddie is a great man and business man. Great Video!!! Thanks
Pete very nice story you brought forward here. I drive me bleed green but I love my cummins engine. Was nice to here that cummins had a part in the making of the 466. Well done and congrats to Eddie and the entire family.
Wow we have had many 466. Combines tractors etc. such a good engine. Who knew the real story. I didn’t. Good stuff
That's a great story. Eddie sounds like an awesome guy to be around. Turns out all you need to do to make a green tractor run is to use Cummins and IH parts to make it go. Haha, that the dominant red tractor guy coming out in me. That's very cool that the Cajun Queen is still earning its keep. It reminds me of Dale Kohl stories, except he pulled mostly red machines. They pulled his 856 at Bowling Green this past August for the 50th anniversary at the National Tractor Pulling Championship. He used to say that same saying to from what I've heard. If she goes, she goes. If she blows, she blows! That's the only attitude to have when you're pulling tractors.
ih1206 yes it is at the time I believe the IH 466 was out for a year or 2 they said it was industrial pistons and I think IH put the first 466 in construction equipment so it was probably IH 466 pistons!!
My Uncle wrkd there. Back in the day. Robert Wright. RIP.
Nice interview, Thanks
What a Legacy !!! Awesome!
Pretty cool 😎👍
Great video.
Damn straight Eddie!! If aien't Green it aien't Mean!!! :) Thumbs up.
I remember the 4430 at the m&w power show, it blew up!
Good Job.
8430 was the first Deere to use the 466. I would find it hard to believe the similarities between the puller and the 8430 go beyond the cubic inch being the same.
Running a dealership is one big headache! Continued success with the dealership! Regards...
I ll Ike the fact that it took IH pistons to make it run
wish they all would end up back to work
how come everyone in this video forgot about the poor old 8430? It was the first with the 466 in it and was released in 1975.
Was anything done to the rest of the drivetrain to keep it together with that much power?
What happened to the Cajun Queen 2 the JD 4320? Jeff
Why did they put it to work instead of keeping it nice in a museum or something?
Pete, did Eddie ever tell you what happened to that original 466 engine? Thanks!
We asked Alan & Scott about that. They weren't sure...thought it may be around Eddie's farm somewhere after it was taken out years ago to put the original 4020 engine back in
Thanks Pete, I really enjoy these stories that you put together. Thank you very much.
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Technically the 8430 was the first to carry 6466
Why name it Cajun Queen?
Dave Schrier bought the Cajun Queen from sydenstricker and renamed it the Green power special. He won the 7000 pound super stock points championship in the early 1980's
That makes no sense. Take your famous narrow front wheel 4020 Cajun Queen your proud of and put old sheet metal on change to wide front end and haul manure. Never said exactly where the original pulling engine is at. And yet take a non famous 4020 and make it a museum piece. Something smells beside manure..........
My guess is that after John Deere did all their testing and reverse engineering of the engine, they destroyed it.
"non famous 4020"? There is no such thing.
@@greyghostkoga l would bet your right...
Yup, it's very likely the original built 466 was scrapped. Most prototype stuff winds up scrapped. Especially if the John Deere corporation was involved, which it sounds like they very much were.
When I was in college in 1996, we had a prototype 7000 series John Deere tractor that we got given/donated from Deere for "instructional use only". It had no serial #'s, and was a bit of a "mutt". It had parts from the soon to be brand new 7000 series, as well as some from the old 55 series JD tractors.
The college had to sign a contract/waiver that said if it were ever gotten rid of, it would be destroyed/scrapped. It was not allowed to be put into service, or resold complete.
It was badged & decaled as a 55 series tractor to "attempt to hide" what it really was from on-lookers and passers-by, when it was being used for engineering testing out in the fields.
When we received the tractor from Deere, it had been sitting for quite some time and it did not run.
The hydraulic pumps were also missing.
Part of our class project what's to get it up running and functional again. Finding the correct parts and a hydraulic pump for it proved to be expensive and very time consuming.
My professor also made things difficult by being a cheapskate. He wanted to mount a cheaper & incorrect hydraulic gear pump in order to "save money". It made for a lot of headaches. We fabricated a mounting plate and some drive shaft adapters to make the incorrect hydraulic pump mountable & functional.
Since the correct pumps & parts were all easily available from Deere, installing the cheaper & incorrect hydraulic pump was just plain stupid, as far as I was concerned.
Guess this was an unintentional lesson in doing what your boss says, even though it may not necessarily make any sense. Ha, ha...
There were also various components that did not work, and had to be repaired and sometimes modified. This was especially true with the non-functional, and incomplete, air conditioning system. Oh, I forgot to mention, it was the new-style "square cab" tractor, that replaced the old Sound Guard model cabs from the 1970's, 1980's, and early 1990's.
Many of the issues and problems that we had with the tractor was simply due to the fact that the tractor was never a true production tractor, and that it was used for extensive engineering and research purposes.
She was a true mongrel. It was actually a wonderful tractor to learn and gain experience on.
I personally got it running again, while many of the other kids (dummies) scratched their heads, as they couldn't figure out how to get it to go.
They played around, for what felt like an eternity... changing fuel filters and trying to bleed the air from the fuel injectors while cranking the ever-living snot out of the starter. I kept telling them that the fuel tank needed to be removed and cleaned out. I kept telling him that all of the fuel delivery lines needed to be cleaned out. But nobody would listen.
It had old bad fuel in it from sitting around for years somewhere at Deere. The filters and lines were all plugged with bacteria. The fuel tank had debris in it.
I eventually got tired of watching my "co-learners" dink around. I took the initiative and got a 5-gallon bucket with clean diesel fuel from the college farm's bulk tank. I threw a 3/8" hose in the can and attached it to the tractor's fuel lift pump. Cranked the engine over, & shot it with ether. She fired right up with a cloud of dust smoke.
At the age of 19, I was rather amazed at how ignorant the other kids/young men all were. But, I guess that was the whole point of them going to college? LOL
It was a good time, and I learned a fair amount. When I returned to visit my Alma Mater, around a decade or so later, I was informed that way cool 7000 series prototype tractor had been dismantled & scrapped. Broke my heart. It was a perfectly good tractor, that could have been put into service, and used at the college farm, if nothing else.
@@turbodiesel4709 I went to Michigan State and studied dairy management. We had a couple of classes in the engineering department and sitting on display there was a 4010 diesel cut away display tractor. I believe all of the hours on the were from the electric motor that turned the engine over at a very slow pace. We usually turned it on to watch it every chance we got.