Before and after

Dieseltech

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Akron, Indiana
The 560 diesel before and after..
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Why? To give my tractor drive and YT friends a chuckle or two. Tractor is fully retired to doing drives only, and a close friend dared me to use a patriotic paint theme. The blue is even the correct IH implement blue shade. Ay my age I prefer more comfort and convenience on the drives..
 
Hopefully you realized going into this that look would not be everyone's cup of tea, and expected some criticism, so please please please do not take what I say in this reply personally...

This has nothing to do with "correct police." It's just plain gaudy. It looks like one of those trucks you see in India. All it's missing is the tassels.

Sometimes gaudy is the goal, though. Maybe you achieved what you set out to do. If so, nicely done!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if your eye beholds it as beauty, that's all that matters.
 
The small Yanmar diesel is belted to a Delco alternator, I call it the "Amish" 12 volt battery charger. The whole outfit is just a fun toy for tractor rides mainly, this past summer it covered 1,850 miles doing drives in six states. It may be "gaudy" to some, and the correct police would have a cow, but it's the most comfortable tractor I've used yet in fifteen years doing the drives with the air ride seat, and that's it's main purpose now.
 
Well it's definitely a eye catcher. There are many interesting things but I have to ask. Why does the steering wheel come off.
 
(quoted from post at 06:23:35 12/13/17) The small Yanmar diesel is belted to a Delco alternator, I call it the "Amish" 12 volt battery charger. The whole outfit is just a fun toy for tractor rides mainly, this past summer it covered 1,850 miles doing drives in six states. It may be "gaudy" to some, and the correct police would have a cow, but it's the most comfortable tractor I've used yet in fifteen years doing the drives with the air ride seat, and that's it's main purpose now.

That only brings more questions...why doesn't the tractor charge it's own battery? If it has a "generator" on it why doesn't it have a fridge? Where are the little IH tractor Christmas lights hanging from the canopy.
 
Steering wheel comes off to allow more room for me to get my rear in the seat. The semi air ride seat come up a bit high when I'm off it. Tractor does have it's own alternator too, but if I forget turning the switch off the Yanmar diesel can be rope started to re-charge batteries if needed. Tractor gets about 9-12 MPG, depending if I'm pulling the trailer with the pickup on it or not. Driver gets about 100 miles to a Pringles can from the snack tray..
 
Looks good. Everything that is not painted "correct" are easily removed so even the "correct police" should not worry. I need a canopy for my 504 but I think I might go a little smaller than yours :) Glad to see you are enjoying it and its not rusting away or melted down into paper clips.
 
Tires are made by Titan-Goodyear especially for drives. Installed on steel dish wheels to get rid of some weight, plus have a place for the American flags, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine decals. nnalert would be proud! LOL
 

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