Heavy Duty Loader Tractor Built From IH 2-Ton Truck
"It's better than a conventional loader tractor because it goes much faster down the highway and can lift big round bales up to 20 ft. high," says Rein Grinding of Lyman, Nebraska. Workers at the custom hay grinding outfit converted a used 1980 International Harvester 2-ton truck into a "reversed", heavy-duty loader tractor. They use the rig every day to custom grind hay for local feedlots.
They started out with a Pepsi Cola 2-ton truck equipped with a DT 210 hp, 466 cu. in. diesel engine and an automatic transmission. They unbolted the box, then cut 8 ft. off the frame and reinforced it with additional steel. Then they mounted a new Deere front-end loader on back.
They cut off the back side of the truck's cab. Then they mounted the front side of a combine cab over the back of the cab.
What makes their "loader truck" unique is that it travels down the highway using the original transmission gears. That's different than other homemade loader trucks in which the rear end is flipped over to reverse the transmission gears.
The truck has two steering systems, and the driver uses two separate sets of controls - the original ones for highway use, and another set of controls for operating the loader. The add-on controls came off the combine and include the combine's steering wheel and column, as well as a new brake, clutch and accelerator. To operate the add-on controls, the driver turns the truck's passenger bucket seat around and sits in it with his feet inside the combine cab.
The loader is powered by a hydraulic pump that's driven directly off the truck's crankshaft. A hydraulic control lever for the loader mounts next to the passenger seat.
There's a sloped metal toolbox in front of the cab, and a hydraulic reservoir behind it.
The company paid $12,000 for the truck and $14,000 for a new Deere loader. They spent another $5,000 on hydraulic components which they bought at a local surplus center.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rein Grinding, Lyman, Neb.
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Heavy Duty Loader Tractor Built From IH 2-Ton Truck TRACTORS Loaders 31-3-4 "It's better than a conventional loader tractor because it goes much faster down the highway and can lift big round bales up to 20 ft. high," says Rein Grinding of Lyman, Nebraska. Workers at the custom hay grinding outfit converted a used 1980 International Harvester 2-ton truck into a "reversed", heavy-duty loader tractor. They use the rig every day to custom grind hay for local feedlots.
They started out with a Pepsi Cola 2-ton truck equipped with a DT 210 hp, 466 cu. in. diesel engine and an automatic transmission. They unbolted the box, then cut 8 ft. off the frame and reinforced it with additional steel. Then they mounted a new Deere front-end loader on back.
They cut off the back side of the truck's cab. Then they mounted the front side of a combine cab over the back of the cab.
What makes their "loader truck" unique is that it travels down the highway using the original transmission gears. That's different than other homemade loader trucks in which the rear end is flipped over to reverse the transmission gears.
The truck has two steering systems, and the driver uses two separate sets of controls - the original ones for highway use, and another set of controls for operating the loader. The add-on controls came off the combine and include the combine's steering wheel and column, as well as a new brake, clutch and accelerator. To operate the add-on controls, the driver turns the truck's passenger bucket seat around and sits in it with his feet inside the combine cab.
The loader is powered by a hydraulic pump that's driven directly off the truck's crankshaft. A hydraulic control lever for the loader mounts next to the passenger seat.
There's a sloped metal toolbox in front of the cab, and a hydraulic reservoir behind it.
The company paid $12,000 for the truck and $14,000 for a new Deere loader. They spent another $5,000 on hydraulic components which they bought at a local surplus center.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rein Grinding, Lyman, Neb.
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