1/2-Scale Allis Chalmers Windrower
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Back in 1940 Allis Chalmers came out with a 6-ft. windrower. The company made only 500 of them, but recently Marlin Swanson of Amery, Wis., found one laying along a rural roadside. He immediately realized the machine was rare, so he cut away the weeds and took photos of it. Then he built a 1/2-scale working model.
The pto-operated windrower model mounts on 2 wheelbarrow wheels and is equipped with a ground-driven reel and a 3-ft. long sickle and canvas. Swanson pulls the unit behind a 1/4-scale Allis Chalmers tractor that he built from an old Jacobson garden tractor. The tractor's engine belt-drives a shaft, which leads to a gearbox that operates the pto. A long lever is used to raise or lower the conveyor table.
"I made it mostly from parts that I found in my scrap pile," says Swanson. "I used maple wood to build the reel and old steel shelving to build the back part of the windrower. The sprockets were salvaged from the insecticide attachment off an old corn planter."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Marlin Swanson, 1221 95th Ave., Amery, Wis. 54001 (ph 715 268-8464; jjswanson@amerytel.net).
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1/2-Scale Allis Chalmers Windrower TRACTORS Made-It-Myself 34-5-22 Back in 1940 Allis Chalmers came out with a 6-ft. windrower. The company made only 500 of them, but recently Marlin Swanson of Amery, Wis., found one laying along a rural roadside. He immediately realized the machine was rare, so he cut away the weeds and took photos of it. Then he built a 1/2-scale working model.
The pto-operated windrower model mounts on 2 wheelbarrow wheels and is equipped with a ground-driven reel and a 3-ft. long sickle and canvas. Swanson pulls the unit behind a 1/4-scale Allis Chalmers tractor that he built from an old Jacobson garden tractor. The tractor's engine belt-drives a shaft, which leads to a gearbox that operates the pto. A long lever is used to raise or lower the conveyor table.
"I made it mostly from parts that I found in my scrap pile," says Swanson. "I used maple wood to build the reel and old steel shelving to build the back part of the windrower. The sprockets were salvaged from the insecticide attachment off an old corn planter."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Marlin Swanson, 1221 95th Ave., Amery, Wis. 54001 (ph 715 268-8464; jjswanson@amerytel.net).
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