2013 - Volume #37, Issue #5, Page #23
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Tractor Rig Hauls Rocks, People
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He stripped the tractor down to the frame and then lengthened the frame by 1 ft. to make room for a new garden tractor seat and platform. He relocated the steering wheel to the front, mounting it on a vertical steering column. He also moved the tractor’s hydrostat transmission forward. A lever located alongside the seat is used to shift the transmission.
He had a local machine shop build a 3-ft. sq. steel rock box with 6-in. high sides, which bolts onto metal brackets welded on back of the tractor. The box is lined with a poly bedliner and is dumped using an electric actuator.
A homemade 2-wheeled trailer with a seat mounted on it can be pulled behind the tractor. The fiberglass chair sets on welded-together metal supports that pin onto the trailer’s wooden floor. “I just pull a pair of pins whenever I need to use the trailer to haul something else,” notes Naus.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Michael Naus, N3134 County Road I, Waldo, Wis. 53093 (ph 920 912-7419; jmoperation@yahoo.com).
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