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My winch build is here: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/392375-pto-capstan-winch-scratch.html As for binding, and the scary self-feeding that follows, it certainly has happened to me. Two things about that: #1, is strict attention to watching the rope on the spool and...

I'll admit I tried this conversion and failed. Was a TroyBilt Tomahawk I got for free. Engine was not worth fixing, and I prefer PTO-power anyway. So I tore it all apart, added 3pt hitch arms, top link connection. Added a pulley and bearings to support it, PTO shaft and more bearings. With...

Behold, the long sought Kubota Mid-PTO Spline Adapter: Lot of people have looked for these and come up empty, so I figured a thread documenting them once and for all would help. This is a "TISCO 355", 31/32"-10 to 1.375"-6 spline adapter: They don't appear to be manufactured anymore, and...

A little update: Here is the new redesigned top link attachment, with swiveling upper guide loop: You can run the rope through the upper guide and get a little bit of vertical lift, makes getting over rocks a bit easier. Or you can skip the upper guide and just do a straight pull. Not a huge...

One final addition, I forgot to post the CAD files I made for this: These are all SolidWorks (2013) files. The model isn't exactly the same as the built thing, but it's pretty close. You can take measurements off the model to get some idea of the scale of things. This model also includes an...

So I log maybe a dozen trees a year, and due to living on horribly rocky property, just getting to the trees is half the battle. A winch is the obvious answer, but the electric ones aren't really up to the task, and a Farmi-style winch cost too much for how little I'd use it. Thus I eventually...

I looked long and hard at that Norwood winch. Best I could tell they didn't seem to be for sale anymore. I then spent a long time doing the math on a hydraulic capstan winch, and it didn't pencil out well. On my small tractor, with only 4 GPM of flow, I could only get about 5 HP out of the...

I built a lift based off those plans. To some extent they are the only game in town, so if you really want to build a scissor lift, buy 'em. Overall they are good plans, only some minor things about them that I disagreed with. The lift angle did worry me, so I built a 3D model in SolidWorks...

Few years ago I spent a few weeks and actually converted one. The rotational speed isn't a huge deal, additional bearing and a big pulley can get you to 3000rpm (I don't think I ever made it up to 3600rpm though). Real problem is rotational direction. On mine, the engine turned in the opposite...

Here's a blurry picture of my smeared drawbar: The term I want to use is 'galled', but that's not technically right either. It's just 'normal' wear, but the circular motion of it is tearing out little arc-shaped splinters that I didn't like at all. And indeed its a single axle trailer, with...

Finished product first: I recently finished building a 2-ton dump trailer for my tractor, and I needed a slightly longer drawbar for it. I had also noticed that the trailer was smearing the steel of the drawbar I was using, after just a few outings. Looking to kill two birds with one stone...

Yup, that's pretty much where I had went with my design. The counterwedges would just rest inside of some holder, free to slide about, as the main wedge pressed on them. If you watch this video, you can see an actual splitter doing that: DARDA hydraulic Rock and Concrete Splitters in action -...

Alright, I don't have SolidWorks with me, so this is a little rough. This is as I built it and the files above are: The shank stays within the footprint of the "base plate" it's welded to. Designed it that way if only because I liked the symmetry of it. But perhaps better would be...

So I recently built a backhoe/excavator ripper/trencher for my Kubota KX-41, herein referred to as Giant Metal Claw. Much of the design came from threads here, so I figured I'd document it a bit for others to build from too. First off, much thanks to IslandTractor for his thread, and bluehog...