John Deere Mobile Grill

John Deere Mobile Grill FARM HOME Food 30-2-22 Barbequing for a group requires a big grill, but that same grill can be a bear to move around when you make it out of a 30-in. long, 16-in. dia. steel pipe. "It was great for groups, but it took two men to pick it up to move it," explains Deland Cooper. "And my wife didn't want something ugly sitting around the back yard, especially when we only used it a couple times a year." So Cooper took a couple drive sprockets from a Deere 550 dozer and used them as rear wheels on a mini tractor frame that he built around the grill. A piece of 2 by 6-in. steel tubing became a main frame for the tractor and a support for the grill, which sits where the engine would have been. Scraps of tubing were used to frame the driver platform and provide an axle mounting for the rear wheels. Cooper raided an old Deere riding lawn mower for a steering wheel and steering gear. The mower's running boards were mounted to the sides of the platform and an old metal seat was salvaged from a horse-drawn Deere sickle mower. A short piece of pipe welded to the top of the grill cover and topped with a rain cap looks like an exhaust pipe. Pieces of copper sheeting and pipe framed by steel tubing became a radiator. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Deland Cooper, 659 Oakland Rd., Mountain Home, Ark. 72653 (ph 870 481-5999).

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