Help choosing old small tractor

Cliff_Johns · Apr 16, 2006

Soundguy,
If you'd filled that tub with ice and your favorite drink, it wouldn't be as good for ballast, but you'd have a lot of friends following you around.

Cliff

KiotiJohn · Apr 16, 2006

( If you'd filled that tub with ice and your favorite drink, it wouldn't be as good for ballast, but you'd have a lot of friends following you around.
Cliff )
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif good on ya Cliff.

Soundguy, it was your setup that I was thinking about, but yours was done much more inexpensivley that I remembered.

I love the way you fixed up the connections.
John

Joe1 · Apr 16, 2006

The 1,500 lb rating per trailer tire only means the tires can carry 3,000 total together. It has nothing to do with the trailer capacity. If you subtract the weight of the trailer itself, you're capacity is probably 2,400 or less, which is just a guess.

Soundguy · Apr 17, 2006

( Soundguy, it was your setup that I was thinking about, but yours was done much more inexpensivley that I remembered.

I love the way you fixed up the connections.
)

Hey.. i was aiming for cheap, and got there.

The tub was more or less free, as it was a left over cattle feed tub. I used an old drawbar, and bolted it to the bottom of the tub and left the bolts sticking up inthe tub about 6" to anchor to the concrete. Toplink connection is just a flat with holes , cut in 2 pieces. Paid 7 bucks for the flat.. 2 bucks for the nuts/bolts, and 6 or 7 bucks for a few backs of sackkrete..

If I ever toss the concrete chunk, I can spinn 2 nuts off the bottom and salvage my drawbar...

Soundguy

KiotiJohn · Apr 17, 2006

( I used an old drawbar, and bolted it to the bottom of the tub and left the bolts sticking up inthe tub about 6" to anchor to the concrete. )
I'm glad you added this description. I was wondering what you used for the mount.

Even if one had to buy a new horizontal draw bar, it would be inexpensive to build this. Very inventive and quite utilitarian!
John

dieselsmoke1 · Apr 19, 2006

I like it!! Wish I had an old tub.

Soundguy · Apr 20, 2006

The tub is just there to hold the 'crete till it sets. Even a thin throw away one.. perhaps a large tub from a plant nursery .. you might get one for a buck.. or free.. one of the bigger 10-20g ones. Just tape up the inside with duck tape to cover the holes..

Half a 55g drum works too

Soundguy

Iowachild · Apr 20, 2006

My experience is to spend a little more and get a tractor u can do work with instead of a tractor you can do work on. 

TAKE THIS ADVICE TO THE BANK!!!
Don't ask how I know. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

stump54 · Apr 20, 2006

Gunnar,
A little off the subject but I saw the pictures of your restored Ferguson on your web site.
I'd love to be able to do that with mine; alas, no time and no talent...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/3075/sort/1/cat/531/page/1

Gary