2025 - Volume #49, Issue #2, Page #03
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Two Deere Gs In One
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“I fastened an I-beam under the rear end of the lead G,” says Lanoue. “After I pulled the tricycle front end off the second G, I mounted it to the I-beam.”
Controlling them both from the lead tractor’s seat was a little more difficult. Lanoue wanted to keep it simple, so he attached hydraulic cylinders to the hand clutches on both tractors and ran oil-filled hoses between them. When he moves the clutch on the lead tractor, the second tractor follows suit.
“I have to start both tractors and put them in gear separately, but after that, I can control both from the lead tractor seat,” says Lanoue. “I ran a cable between the two throttles for dual control and a kill switch wire to ground out the magneto on the rear G when I want it to stop.”
Getting 125 hp out of the two tractors also took some work. He’d already beefed up the lead G.
“The rear G was stock when I started and barely produced 30 hp on the dyno,” says Lanoue. “After I bored it out with a long crank and some headwork, it was pushing 60 to 70.”
Lanoue hit 13 plow days one year, mostly with his Deere 4020 and a semi-mounted plow. He took the double-header G to a few, but they were limited by the room he has on his gooseneck trailer.
“Transit is the problem with the Gs,” he notes. “If a plow is available at the event, I can take them. I don’t have room for both the Gs and a plow.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeff Lanoue, 2668 N 1630 East Rd., Martinton, Ill. 60951 (ph 815-530-4502; Kooder78@yahoo.com).
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