2 Wheel tractor

[JohnDeere8530]

I’ve seen this advertised quite a bit. I get it’s a tractor for stationary pto use only, however I just can’t see why someone would go to the bother to make a drawbar for it and take the front axle off.

I wonder why it was done - as it’s turned a very useful machine into something that only has one use, with an added inconvenience when moving ir about

what am I missing ?

 

[melted welly]

Probably bought cheap with some sort of driveline issue and has had irrigation pump or generator hung off the back. Done the same with old 7.5t lorries.

 

[Moors Lad]

Not sure we`re getting the whole story from the picture..... What`s the big blue "tank" thing in front of tractor nose?

 

[dave6470]

could be for running an umbilical slurry pump and pulled behind spreding tractor to jobs

 

[onesiedale]

maybe the clue is on the sign behind.
Mr Meegan is a dismantler

 

[Muddyroads]

Not sure we`re getting the whole story from the picture..... What`s the big blue "tank" thing in front of tractor nose?

Fuel?

 

[Welderloon]

Front casting holding the axle could have been damaged/broken rather than scrap the tractor it was turned into what it is now, can run an irrigation pump, Grain drier, Static feed mill/mixer, tub grinder, slurry whisk. firewood processor
Could also be used as a test rig for testing/tipping trailers/hydraulic systems for an engineering works or similar.

Front tank is likely either the diesel tank or an auxiliary/larger hyd oil tank

Certainly a lot more use than being scrapped

 

[two-cylinder]

It will be for irrigation, can be delivered to field by one person.
Front tank will be auxiliary fuel tank to allow it to do a long run, if it's been running a pump feeding a 400m machine a run could take 14 hours.

 

[glasshouse]

I’ve seen this advertised quite a bit. I get it’s a tractor for stationary pto use only, however I just can’t see why someone would go to the bother to make a drawbar for it and take the front axle off.

I wonder why it was done - as it’s turned a very useful machine into something that only has one use, with an added inconvenience when moving ir about

what am I missing ?

Its called evolution
It had to be tow started so often and towed home broken down that it grew its very own drawbar.
Charles Darwin would be proud

 

[beltbreaker]

We had something very similar powering irrigation pumps years ago on a local dairy. We had 4 different accesses to water by the Loch.

The Ford 7600 split at bell housing damaged the engine casting but engine ran, insurance gave 7600 a new 7610 motor. Got an old 5000 which was buggered bolted a drawbar to front plus side rails to1 back axle and mounted pump, murphys and diesel tank where cab was. Quick to move from one site to next. That motor did 18000+hrs in total, back when we got 22-24 in he's of rain

 

[trebornella]

Its called evolution
It had to be tow started so often and towed home broken down that it grew its very own drawbar.
Charles Darwin would be proud

When I grow up, I want to be a Doe.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I've seen pictures, probably from the US or AUS, where a tractor without a front axle was hitched to the back of another one and the controls linked up. The driver was on the front tractor, obviously.

 

[tractorsandcows]

Not sure we`re getting the whole story from the picture..... What`s the big blue "tank" thing in front of tractor nose?

Driver's lunch box

 

[zero]

We once had a Renault on a loader about that size, splines on the front diff pinion shaft wore away so it needed a new crown wheel and pinion. Even 20 years ago it was more than it was worth to fix it but rest of tractor was still ok.
Think if I'd wanted to keep it just for the pto I'd have left the front axle on but with the internals removed, would be easier to move about..