Deere Slide A Hit On Minnesota Lake

Deere Slide A Hit On Minnesota Lake FARM HOME Miscellaneous Grown men who would never go down a water slide might be tempted to try out David Seifert’s slide The giant slide rolls on Deere tires and is shaped like a tractor with a big tube slide at one end “It’s all scrap tubing ” says Seifert who works in a machine shop and farms with his father near Pelican Rapids Minn “It probably has at least a ton of steel in it ” He welded the 22 1/2-ft “tractor” frame together and bolted the slide to the deck at about 11 ft off the ground He bolted the bottom of the frame to salvaged tractor axles There’s even room for a tractor seat swing under the “tractor” deck A hitch on the front allows Seifert to back the big rig down into the water using a real Deere tractor A sump pump in the lake brings water up to the top of the slide to make it slippery and fast The tractor slide has been a big hit since he built it in 2010 “I built it for my grandsons Preston and Daniel There are two more on the way ” Seifert says Seifert admits it took more time 250 hrs and money $800 for the spiral slide than he anticipated “I put a lot of work into it but it was a lot of fun ” he says Contact: FARM SHOW Followup David Seifert 47476 U S Hwy 59 Pelican Rapids Minn 56572 ph 218 863-1202; moondancertam@yahoo com

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