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Something for tramlines

Clive

Clive

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Lichfield
How about an old agribugy with sprayer etc taken off and replace with a pickup back ?

Light weight and cheap with a cab to keep dry. Basically a landrover underneath with gearing fast down the roads ? Would even take a set of row crops for OSR ?

4ws as well ?
 
ollandroverman

ollandroverman

Member
Location
nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Had a quick measure whilst feeding pet lambs. My Landrover fitted with pretty standard aftermarket dished wheels gives track centers of 62". Off the shelf wheel spacers would add 60 mm as I remember, so not wide enough without making up some extremely dished wheels. By way of comparison, my double cab twin wheel transit is 64" centers on the rear axle, but if you were to remove the inner pair of wheels it would give you 74" centers.

....time to get creative perhaps?
 
Mounty

Mounty

Member
BASIS
Location
Suffolk
RCW Farm Services said:
How have you found them? I fancy one for getting around on .. thought it would to small enough to carry on the front linkage / loader bucket / front of the combine... with the right brackets
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Ok for limited use. Not very quick, about 22mph but good for getting about how you suggest. Weigh a good 200kg.
 
ollandroverman

ollandroverman

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Location
nr Kendal (The Lake District)
Mounty said:
Thinking about converting an old 4x4 to a wider track so that it will run in tramlines on wheat or barley up until about May.
Has anyone done similar? Was thinking about a Jimny, HiLux or similar.
I know a VW Transporter is 72" track but too big and 4x4 ones are rare.
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Are you quite sure on the VW Transporter track width?. I believe they are around 64" not 72"
I have them as quite a bit narrower than my twin wheel Transit rear axle which if you just measure the outer wheel centers is 74"
 
Mounty

Mounty

Member
BASIS
Location
Suffolk
Yep 100%, the guy I know is on light land and buys them especially for driving the fields. It is a crew cab and not a van. Dimensions here to outer edge of tyres are 75" so approx. 72" centres
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Mounty

Mounty

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BASIS
Location
Suffolk
I've seen it sat in barley tramlines recently, defo fits the 72" width. I remember when he demo'ed one he specifically measured the track and bought it for that reason.
 
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dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
is 72" most common, my drill is 3m has 24 coulters, theres 4 outside of each tramline 12 in the middle so 14 coulter would be centre/centre of tramlines, at 125mm centres that's 1750mm = 68.9" ?
1 coulter wider each side would be 16 centres = 2000 = 78.7"

my 2 tractors both "fit" my tramlines but 1 is 4" wider than the other
 

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