Got welder?

[captin_insano]

Some of my tinkerings

Reese type hitch for the 3pt

Here it is painted and attached to the harbor freight quick hitch. I'm pretty pleased with the HF quick hitch, purchased for $79. The reese type home built hitch also accepts the weights you see on the floor

I use the ball hitch to move my many trailers around. This is one of the ones I built.

Wood and leaf basket, manual dump. Handy in the fall and winter.

Log splitter. This is run off a PTO pump or off my case loader remote outputs. I made mounts that will go on both the case 4 pin and the kubota 3pt. Sorry, no finished pics and its under 3 feet of snow at present. It works real quick on the case with the 25ish GPM pump.

I know its not a "tractor" but its one i'm kinda proud of. Its a 1964 case w7 loader with an AC industrial 60 hoe. I rescued it from junk for 800 dollars in real bad shape.

here it is under restoration. I repowered it with a ford 302 run into a ford aod auto trans and a ford np 208 t-case from an f250. I clocked the case and built driveshafts and a pinion brake.

The new driveline was intended for front engine applications so I did a differential flip to make it go foreward when in drive. The steering diff stayed in the rear, it was just fliped and new steering made.

The pump was mounted to the crank via a homemade shaft that was part toyota truck and part old case pump adapters.

In working condition. I've used the crap out of it and it works great

Its compact anyway. This was another junkyard find. Its a Joost agricat dozer. It had no engine and a bad trans. I repowered it with an 11 hp engine and made an attempt to substitute the bad trans for a tractor transaxle. it kinda worked but the real fix was going to be a hydro drive. I've since sold this little bugger.

I also tinker with 4wd's. I've built many off road rigs but i wont bore you with all them. This is the current project.

Future plans are to build a large boiler, a small backhoe for my tractor and an elevator for the house. Then maybe enjoy this stuff some.

 

[Jeepnford]

Did you use Bend-Tech or something similar to help design your buggy? I've contemplated building one myself,I need to study up on building a 4-link. I like the look of build.

 

[captin_insano]

the chassis is a blackout autosports. His design and he bent it for less than I could even buy the tube for. I did the 4 link mounts and 4 link design. the rear is equal length double triangulated with 20* seperation top and bottom. the front is parallel 4 link with bushings on the axle end and a panhard bar. I went with that in the front to deal with the higher speed stuff and jumping. its not going to travel like the best of them but it should be better at speed.

This is the rear steering rockwell top mount. I did the center flip on this axle to center the driveshaft and did the rebuild.

Rear axle has no suspension steer throughout its entire travel.

I'm using single rams but i plumbed them in parallel so its a balanced system like the double rams. it will work like a 4 wheel steer tractor though until you pull a valve to seperate the front and rear. This is probably common knowledge to the average farmer but is pretty innovative in the 4wd world as the common set up is a balanced ram with the front and rear working independently all the time. I think its a good set up for most of the east coast wheeling and will work great on tight trails at higher speeds.

 

[captin_insano]

This is the start to the rear steering. The ram is a rephasing ram from some kind of farm machinery. the rephasing rams will allow the axles to allign each time you steer to lock. Important to have with a parallel steering system.

made a pinion brake from some stock grand vitara brakes.

Did this with the vitara

 

[Kevin M]

Very Cool ! I got to hand it to you on repowering that loader and then adding the hoe, Nice job !

 

[captin_insano]

thanks kevin, I really like that machine too. It was a fun project, taking a worthless hulk of old iron and making it into a workable and easily repairable piece of equipment again. it turned out better than i expected, in low range it has more power than it would ever need. in high range it will go faster than you want to and will push snow real well in high range too. the hoe works great, i put an electronic fast idle on it and it runs the hoe amazingly well at about 1200 rpm. Makes for some good fuel economy when using the hoe. It drinks the fuel moving snow though.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Wow! And you call that tinkering, huh? I wonder what you build when you call it hard work. Very interesting. Most of what you said and showed was over my head but I still like seeing it.

 

[Kevin M]

I like the buggy project too! Im also into the offroad stuff, working on CJ YJ project on tons, 42s ,V8, 4spd, d300, etc

 

[Kevin M]

Couple of pics of my junk

 

[captin_insano]

Wow! And you call that tinkering, huh? I wonder what you build when you call it hard work

Right now its a large 2 story addition on the house with indoor pool. At the same time I'm doing a garage addition/pool equipent room and outdoor kitchen with large fireplace, all native stone. Doing everything without a contractor from ground up, plans, excavated it with the case, pool install, gathering the stone, everything. Going to build an elevator too and a large boiler to heat everything. I couldnt have this stuff without doing it myself and I'm trying to make the hard work pay off. I get burned out at times though and get to thinking life would be so much easier if i got into gardening. The ambrosia grows real sweet around here.