1998 - Volume #22, Issue #4, Page #30
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Atriculated, 4-WD Garden Tractor Has Two Engines
Demascal mounts a 3-ft. wide blade on front of the rig to plow snow or scrape dirt. He can also hook up a rototiller, single moldboard plow, or 1-row cultivator behind the unit.
"It has a lot of power and is almost unstoppable," says Demascal. "I can use it in either 2 or 4-WD. When it's in 4-WD it goes faster than I can walk, which is why I made an operator platform for it."
Both tractors were originally designed to pull a single moldboard plow, disk, or cultivator. However, the front tractor was also designed to push a blade. It's powered by a 10 hp Briggs & Stratton gas engine while the rear tractor is powered by a 3 hp Briggs & Stratton. Both tractors throttle together and clutch together. The frames are hooked together using the ball and socket off a boat trailer hitch, which also provides articulated steering. The ball is welded on back of the front tractor and the hitch is welded on front of the rear tractor.
A length of cable is used to raise and lower the blade.
He used angle iron and sheet metal to build the 2-wheeled trailer and a length of 3/4-in. dia. steel rod to build the axle. The wheels are off an old wheelbarrow. A hitch welded onto the back of the trailer allows him to pull sleds. The trailer hooks up to a hitch that he welded onto the back of the rear tractor.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mark Demascal, 406 W. Samuel St., Assumption, Ill. 62510 (ph 217 226-3121).
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