Anyone here ever built their own tractor?

[Magnum Man]

Was whiling away some lockdown time last night by leafing through some old magazines, and I came by this old issue of Power Farming. Has anyone else here ever built their own tractor? Does anyone know the farmer in the feature? I’m sure someone told me a long while ago that they knew him, and that the tractor had since been dismantled, but I may have got that wrong.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

looks cool but i sure you would have been better wacking a perkins phaser 200bhp plus engine in a 2005 series mf,

 

[Farmer Roy]

http://multifarmingsystems.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/How-it-all-began.pdf

 

[Matthew Britton]

Was whiling away some lockdown time last night by leafing through some old magazines, and I came by this old issue of Power Farming. Has anyone else here ever built their own tractor? Does anyone know the farmer in the feature? I’m sure someone told me a long while ago that they knew him, and that the tractor had since been dismantled, but I may have got that wrong.

I remember that issue!! Bloody long time ago now!

 

[Hilly]

Did someone in Ireland not build one out of a scania ? That s what I’d start with 480hp.

 

[Inter454]

I can remember this article, it must be nearly 30 years ago!! I think the PTO clutch packs weren't very reliable from memory.
I often wondered what happened to the tractor!!

 

[Magnum Man]

I can remember this article, it must be nearly 30 years ago!! I think the PTO clutch packs weren't very reliable from memory.
I often wondered what happened to the tractor!!

 

[Magnum Man]

Matthew Britton Inter454 that’s nothing - I’ve got issues going back thirty years further than that. Might have to post some more pages up in here for the coming lockdown nighttime hours

 

[Goweresque]

There's videos on youtube of the guy in Australia who built an articulated twin engined tractor out of old tank engines:

 

[Speedstar]

I can remember this article, it must be nearly 30 years ago!! I think the PTO clutch packs weren't very reliable from memory.
I often wondered what happened to the tractor!!

I think the tractor was broken up for parts as the guy built a self propelled forager to replace it based on a SH 30 or 40 chopper

 

[Magnum Man]

I think the tractor was broken up for parts as the guy built a self propelled forager to replace it based on a SH 30 or 40 chopper

Yes, I recall that too but can’t remember where I read or heard it. It looked like a really well-done job and was finished really smartly too.

 

[ED.D]

it was built by jft engineering at holt (nr Wrexham) think it used the back end of an old international (think it was an 806) and front axle off a jcb 3cx. Was used to pull a sh40 then got chopped up as speedster mentioned and turned into a self propelled with an 80hp Perkins driving the wheels and a truck engine to drive the forager.

 

[Matthew Britton]

it was built by jft engineering at holt (nr Wrexham) think it used the back end of an old international (think it was an 806) and front axle off a jcb 3cx. Was used to pull a sh40 then got chopped up as speedster mentioned and turned into a self propelled with an 80hp Perkins driving the wheels and a truck engine to drive the forager.

I vaguely recall reading about that somewhere, not sure if magazine or the old forum.

 

[Richard Smyth]

There's videos on youtube of the guy in Australia who built an articulated twin engined tractor out of old tank engines:

I’ve seen that a few times. Does the rounds at local shows every now and again.

 

[ED.D]

I vaguely recall reading about that somewhere, not sure if magazine or the old forum.

the tractor was in a power farming magazine when it was a supplement read and the forager was in farmers weekly.

 

[Inter454]

Matthew Britton Inter454 that’s nothing - I’ve got issues going back thirty years further than that. Might have to post some more pages up in here for the coming lockdown nighttime hours

That would make interesting reading!!

 

[Spanish]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156782750372274

 

[berisford]

I started a thread a bit back on the vintage section,about a giant Terex motor scraper made into a tractor by Simon Ince,was in the FW in the early 80s picture of it on Blackwood Hodge memories,did anyone ever see it? https://blackwood-hodge.typepad.com/home/tall_tales/

 

[76masseyman]

I started a thread a bit back on the vintage section,about a giant Terex motor scraper made into a tractor by Simon Ince,was in the FW in the early 80s picture of it on Blackwood Hodge memories,did anyone ever see it? https://blackwood-hodge.typepad.com/home/tall_tales/

Pretty sure that’s in an old magazine I have. Definitely remember it.

 

[Will 1594]

Is this it . Or any one know about it