Hybrid 2WD Tractor Has A Heavy Duty 20 Ton Truck Axle

Hybrid 2WD tractor has a heavy duty 20 ton truck axle TRACTORS Made-It-Myself 12-6-9 A rear axle removed from a 20-ton ore truck, and a front axle and 220 hp Cummins engine removed from an IH 190 truck, drive a 2-WD tractor built by Leslie Carroll, Brandon, Minn. Leslie paid $2,000 for the ore truck's rearaxle, planetary gears and brake drums at a local salvage yard. He used the IH truck's 220 hp Cummins engine, 10¡speed Road Ranger transmission, power steering, radiator and saddle fuel tanks. He borrowed 8-ply 8.50 by 24 single front tires from a pull-type combine and added 18.4 by 38 rear tractor deals, for which he paid $1,000. At the rear of the rig he mounted a D9 Caterpillar drawbar weighing 740 1bs. and a home-built 3-pt. hitch. Carroll, who uses his home-built trac¡tor to pull a 19-ft. chisel plow and a 42¡ft. cultivator, says he used the ore truck axle because he wanted "something that could take the power of the Cummins engine. It's a husky piece of machinery and delivers good traction," says Carroll. "The 19 1/2 to 1 axle ratio gives me five speeds in the lower range of gears, with the lowest gear going less than 2 mph. It also has individual air-over¡hydraulic brakes." The Cummins engine ran too fast in the field so Carroll used a combine governor to slow it down, running the governor off the power steering drive belt. The tractor is equipped with five hydraulic outlets, allowing Carroll to use four 2-way cylinders and one 1-way cylinder for his IH 6-bottom 3-pt. auto reset plow. This winter he plans to add a hood, grille and cab panels. He says he spent about $7,000 to build the tractor. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Leslie Carroll, RR, Brandon, Min. 56315 (ph 612 524-2411).

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