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ken in texas

10-17-2006 18:00:57

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after looking at homemade tractors on www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects and seeing the chevy made into a tractor made me wonder if anyone has built a tractor from junkyard parts.If so do you have any pictures we could see .I built a half size tractor from auto parts and later installed aIH LB one cylinder engine .It's been lot's of fun at tractor shows and parades.Would like to see what you have.

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Dan-IA

10-18-2006 21:29:29

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Dad tore down an old Vega station wagon, built a custom frame from a couple heavy I-beams, and built a 4-wheeler high-clearance sprayer. Wasn't ever very pretty, but it had a hydraulic system for boom height control and an orbit-motor that drove the water pump. He was never thrilled about using it (said you had to be a daredevil) but he did use it to spray crops for about 4 years.

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Yugrotcart

10-18-2006 17:11:54

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Here's a homebuilt that I restored a few years ago, Ford truck dif, Austin engine and transmission,Cockshutt 3 point.

Paul

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MeAnthony

10-18-2006 12:30:56

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

The crazy idea I can't get rid of is taking a couple of M rearends and building an articulated four wheel drive out of them. Seems like I've heard something on here to the effect that putting the bull gear in backwards gives you 5 reverse gears and 1 forward gear? So build a pivot assembly between them, swap in a diesel engine(5.9 Cummins or 6.2 Chevy(which can be had pretty cheap around here)) with a heavy-duty automatic and transfer case.

Sounds simple, right? lol

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Dan-IA

10-18-2006 21:24:45

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to MeAnthony, 10-18-2006 12:30:56

Dad used to have a couple Cockshutt 40s. Guy from up by Pocahontas did exactly that, bought the 40s for the rear-ends, and built an articulated arrangement like the white 4-150. Won hands down for years in its weight class at the tractor pull.

It's not the bull gear you want to reverse. It's something like reversing the crown gear relative to the bevel pinion shaft, if I recall the terms correctly. But I'm told that depending on how the casting is done, it's not possible to do it to some tractors without grinding down the casting; not a trivial task. That's one of the still-future steps to my Cockshutt 30 homemade HoneyBee-like retrofit (likely one of the very last steps.) After the crops are out I'll probably have time to get back to it, I'm thinking/hoping.

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Gerald J.

10-18-2006 15:12:42

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to MeAnthony, 10-18-2006 12:30:56

That's essentially the formula for Big Bud and Steiger in the beginning, but without the automatic transmission.

Gerald J.

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ken in texas

10-17-2006 20:19:46

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Thanks to you all .I enjoyed hearing about these homemade tractors.

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Gerald J.

10-17-2006 19:38:02

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

About 1950 my dad traded a broken 35 chevy 4 door (rod through the side off the block) for a worn out model A chassis. He shortened the axles and driveshaft, turned the axle or the brake plates over and hitched a drawbar to some ball end pins there. He made the front frame from water pipe with welded joints. He sawed off th front spindles from the spindle plates and shortened the front axle. He mounted new spindles down about 8" from the original spindles and mounted rubber tired wheel barrow wheels for the fronts and used 6-16s for the rears. The engine couples with a belt reduction to an idler shaft made from one of the front spindles. From that idler shaaft to the transmission the other spindle acts as a clutch idler. The engine was new from Montgomery Ward made by Wisconsin. It pulls a one horse plow, many years it had a side mounted rotary more (wore out several), and it pulls a section of spike tooth harrow over the garden. In his 80s he added a poweer steering pump and some hydraulics for lifting the plow. I have it now. There are a couple welds that need fixing.

Gerald J.

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coflyboy

10-17-2006 18:36:00

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

I was, as a small child, on a farm in MI during the WWII years. My dad had a strange looking 'tractor' which was commonly called a doodle bug. There were several around on neighboring farms. I was too young to remember much, but were these what you are showing as homemade tractors?

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DonN Ohio

10-17-2006 18:23:42

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Here is the one Dad built back in the 30's using a Ford model "A: engine, transmission and rear end. We took it to a show last year. Yes that is my 10-20 beside it.

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Larry from md

10-18-2006 09:25:54

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to DonN Ohio, 10-17-2006 18:23:42

Hey that looks like 3 silverkings on that trailer.

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Farmer Ryan from WI

10-17-2006 18:18:32

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Cool website . I am going to make that battery charger.

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Nebraska Cowman

10-17-2006 18:10:16

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Re: homemade tractor in reply to ken in texas, 10-17-2006 18:00:57

Don't have pictures but 30 years ago I built one with a Chevy truck frontend and engine mated to a Farmall B with oversize tires. we used both transmissions

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