Recent content by snowbird

If you're interested in articulated homemade tractors, I've just recently posted some pictures under the "snowblower" thread title.

Most everyone who sees my homemade articulated tractor (with a 4-cylinder Nissan pickup engine)asks me what I'll use it for, so I thought I'd better dream up some implements for it. Pictured are some views of a snowblower I've attached. I didn't have a good way to tap into the tractor engine...

I don't know what PTO horsepower your tractor is rated at nor what type of soil and how deep you'd want to work, but 4 foot seems like a pretty big chore for smaller tractors. I think I might want a minimum of 40 hp to work heavy clay soils to a depth of 6 or 8 inches, especially if the soil...

I'll try to get pictures posted of my grass collection system next week. I think with a few design changes it would handle wet grass.

I've seen a commercially produced grass vacuum system in stores and copied it to make my own which I pull behind my front-mounted 72 inch mower. It's true that wet grass is more difficult to handle and I need to slow my ground speed when collecting it. Unless the grass has gotten way ahead of...

Looks like an interesting forum, but I couldn't get registered. (Got error message saying page couldn't be displayed).

Loader would go onto the little articulated tractor. I have a big John Deere with loader, so the little one would be for small jobs (but mostly just for the fun of building it). You must be a good designer to make a quick-attach loader.

I guess I've never driven it sideways on a really steep hill. Don't have many of those where I live, but its center of gravity is pretty low I think because there's lots of heavy metal below 24 inches or so. I think the cab makes it look tall, too. I'd guess the basic machine was ready to...

Thanks. I finally figured out I needed to muse .jpg instead of .bmp to get the pictures to fit.

My snowblower attaches to the front end with a bracket and I use a small hydraulic cylinder to raise and lower it. I plan on primarily designing pull-type implements for the rear end, since I've got a big John Deere tractor (170 hp) for heavy 3-point work left over from when I was farming. My...

It looks like my pictures might be attached. I had to "downsize" them to fit from .bmp to .jpg. Description: I built this tractor from scratch with the engine and manual transmission from a Nissan pickup (about 1985) 4-cylinder my dad had in a pickup that he had an accident in. The...

I've attempted to attach a bunch of pictures. I'll explain them after I determine whether they came through.

Anxious to post pictures and tell the story of my quite unusual four-wheel drive articulated "garden tractor" with a Nissan pickup engine and 5-speed transmission. Based on another forum, I'm thinking I might need to have 5 posts before I can submit pictures?

Nice looking loader. I've given some thought to building one and now you've given my both inspiration and some good looking ideas.