Tractor Built From Combine, Car Parts
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"It makes a handy chore tractor. I spent only $3,000 to build it," says Gerald Kenner, Devils Lake, N. Dak., who built his own front-wheel drive loader tractor from old combine and car parts, including the drive wheels and 6-speed transmission off an old Oliver combine and the 265 hp 8-cyl. gas engine and 3-speed transmission out of a 1969 Buick Electra car.
Kenner bought the car for $305 and got the combine free from a neighbor. He used 8-in. channel iron to build a frame and mounted the combine's 24-in. high drive wheels and axle up front. The combine transmission connects directly to the car transmission. The rear wheels came off a Chevrolet 3/4-ton pickup. He used sheet metal to build the cab and installed doors salvaged from a Deere tractor cab. He narrowed up an old DuAl loader and mounted it in front. The loader is equipped with a 7 1/2-ft. wide bucket built from 3/16-in. sheet metal.
"It has great traction, especially when I'm hauling a load," says Kenner, who operates a welding and repair shop. "All the weight is on the big drive wheels instead of on small wheels like with a conventional tractor. The bucket is handy for moving snow or hauling firewood or heavy sheets of steel. I can replace it with forks for hauling trees, pipe, etc.
"There are three forward speeds and one reverse speed. The combine transmission was part of the combine axle so I have to get out of the cab and shift a lever on the combine transmission to shift into higher gear for road transport. It'll go about 25 mph. A 2-section hydraulic pump that runs off the engine is used to operate both the power steering and the loader. The loader has four cylinders - two to raise the bucket and two to tilt it. The seat is from a Versatile tractor and the steering system from an old Case combine."
Contact FARM SHOW Followup, Gerald Kenner, Rt. 1, Box 325, Devils Lake, N. Dak. 58301 (ph 701 662-4202).
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Tractor Built From Combine, Car Parts COMBINES Conversions 17-6-9 "It makes a handy chore tractor. I spent only $3,000 to build it," says Gerald Kenner, Devils Lake, N. Dak., who built his own front-wheel drive loader tractor from old combine and car parts, including the drive wheels and 6-speed transmission off an old Oliver combine and the 265 hp 8-cyl. gas engine and 3-speed transmission out of a 1969 Buick Electra car.
Kenner bought the car for $305 and got the combine free from a neighbor. He used 8-in. channel iron to build a frame and mounted the combine's 24-in. high drive wheels and axle up front. The combine transmission connects directly to the car transmission. The rear wheels came off a Chevrolet 3/4-ton pickup. He used sheet metal to build the cab and installed doors salvaged from a Deere tractor cab. He narrowed up an old DuAl loader and mounted it in front. The loader is equipped with a 7 1/2-ft. wide bucket built from 3/16-in. sheet metal.
"It has great traction, especially when I'm hauling a load," says Kenner, who operates a welding and repair shop. "All the weight is on the big drive wheels instead of on small wheels like with a conventional tractor. The bucket is handy for moving snow or hauling firewood or heavy sheets of steel. I can replace it with forks for hauling trees, pipe, etc.
"There are three forward speeds and one reverse speed. The combine transmission was part of the combine axle so I have to get out of the cab and shift a lever on the combine transmission to shift into higher gear for road transport. It'll go about 25 mph. A 2-section hydraulic pump that runs off the engine is used to operate both the power steering and the loader. The loader has four cylinders - two to raise the bucket and two to tilt it. The seat is from a Versatile tractor and the steering system from an old Case combine."
Contact FARM SHOW Followup, Gerald Kenner, Rt. 1, Box 325, Devils Lake, N. Dak. 58%1 (ph 701662-4202).
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