Making your own.

I try to make whatever I need, want , myself using onhand, found or salvaged material. I use bed frames a lot. here are some of the things I put together.
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The canopy to shield from the hot AZ sun is mostly bed frames. The grill guard is made from car spring. The grass guard is screen from a heavy equipment air filter and it's frame is kitchen counter edging. The FORD letters are from a PU tailgate. The receiver hitch is 4"x3/4" plate, angle iron and 1/2' sq. rod.
 
You'll break the tractor before you break that trailer hitch!
Looks extremely heavy. It all looks good to me.
Is that a horn under your left headlight?
 
parts look good, I really like the horn, nice touch,

one word of caution on the hitch, if you are ever pulling a 2 wheel trailer and load were to shift to the rear, the front trailer hitch will come up and could jam your lift arms.

same with going down hill with a 4 wheel wagon, if the load starts pushing you the tongue can come up and jam the lift arms,

(so just be cautious of this possibility)

we used a hitch much like yours when pulling two wheel trailer tobacco wagons,
had to be careful to load from the front first
and unload from the rear or you would have a hitch kick up.

hate to mess up your lift system.
 
Horn appears to be a "klaxon"; called an electric vibrating type horn. By the way, general motors purchased the klaxon horn company in 1924.
 
Great job!

If that horn is an OEM klaxon & you need parts, try Synders or Bratton's model A Ford parts stores.
 
I love your homemade attachments. It's so satisfying to make your own instead of simply writing a check. I've made my own boom pole, reversible rear scoop, stay bars, stabilizer bars, drawbar no-spin device, and 6-foot adjustable rear blade. They have cost me only pennies on the dollar. I have more devices in mind. (Maybe I'm just too cheap for store-bought.)
 
Making your own implements is pretty neat. Thanks for showing.

I have a drag I use on my dirt roads here for knocking down the wash board that I made. It attaches to the 3 point on my 48 8n and works pretty good.
 
you guys always amaze me with the stuff you make. I have never welded or fabricated anything other than knocking a few 2x4's together to make a pen or some such thing. I did make my own room in a hooch in RVN.
 
I have a set of those stay bars but I cannot use them. A PO shortened the lift arms for whatever reason so now even at their shortest adjustment, they are too long. Guess I'll have to make some. ;)
 
I tried my stay bars today. They will adjust to the lift arms that were shortened 5 inches. I didn't remember that the problem was that the pins I used on the hitch were too thick for the holes in the bars.
 
I went with this idea but went with a piece of solid round stock. Works great. beautiful weather here today for working outside. " T" shirt and long sleeve shirt. Got pretty windy after I finished.
 
As you can see, I'm not much of a welder. I add rod until I'm sure it will stay together then use a grinder to make it look good if it is something that should look good. My welding friends say that I am not a welder. They say I am a grinder.
 
with a set of stay bars like these,
they came with the old ferguson bar hitch.
they run from the ends of the bar hitch up to the top link hitch point.
these will keep the bar hitch stable, but you can not lift it up/down.
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Here is a box blade my dad built several years ago. He landscaped yards for a living and wanted a blade that would extend out past the rear wheels so he could grade right up to the house foundations. When he made something, it was heavy.

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Here is a tow bar made from an original flat center link. We used the tow bars sometimes to move the tractors short distances from job to job.

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