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Mopar powered John Deere...

Yep. Many farm implement manufacturers used Mopar power especially the slant 6. Cheap and dependable. 318's in some equipment. And of course, the Gen1 Hemi's and big industrial wedge engines for irrigation pumps and the like. CD sirens used the old Hemi's.
 
Here's a couple of old oddballs. Flathead Chrysler powered. The guy mentioned war surplus parts from WW2.
 
New Holland used a larger cube /6 in their Uni model equipment.

I found one at a Uni dealer in Dodgeville, WI when I was a sales rep for the farm newspaper.

Wasn't for sale.

I built my blown 354 from an irrigation pump I bought in Oklahoma. At one time I had around 18 old Hemis in my shop seven or so were industrials.
 
I’ve even some of the old flat head Chrysler engines in them!
 
There used to be a tractor sold up here, called the Co-op. They had Chrysler flat head 6's in them. 1950's or so.
 
The 7800 gas oliver combines had 383s! Smallers one got 318s. I believe some of the later models got 400s but they were painted red.

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The slants used in ag machines had the better flowing manifolds on them, for anyone insterested in factory hot rod parts.
J.I. Case used slants for their combines also. Wife's Grandfather has a minty one in the machine shed. Nieghbor had one too when I was growing up. If we had a decent stand of oats(cover crop for alfalfa) Dad would hire him to come combine the field for us. It was surprisingly quiet from what I remember. As a kid I may have expected something as big as a combine to really roar. Of course, this was back when farmers wanted to retire with their hearing and still used mufflers. I know mufflers are expensive but the chrome straight pipe trend is nonsense.
 
Yep. Many farm implement manufacturers used Mopar power especially the slant 6. Cheap and dependable. 318's in some equipment. And of course, the Gen1 Hemi's and big industrial wedge engines for irrigation pumps and the like. CD sirens used the old Hemi's.
We had two power washers at work, one was a 7,000 and the other was just over 10,000 PSI. Both were powered by 440 Chryslers. They got rid of them after an employee who had been using one of them cleaned his rubber boots with it when he was done and clean cut the end of his foot off. He wasn't wearing his steel boot protectors. Forgot what he was messing with and the power it had.
 
We had two power washers at work, one was a 7,000 and the other was just over 10,000 PSI. Both were powered by 440 Chryslers. They got rid of them after an employee who had been using one of them cleaned his rubber boots with it when he was done and clean cut the end of his foot off. He wasn't wearing his steel boot protectors. Forgot what he was messing with and the power it had.
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Sorry, but that guy went full retard. I grew up around 1950's farm equipment that if you looked at it wrong it would grab you and turn you into a pile of mush. You have to respect machines!
 
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