one off homebuilt equipment

picassomcp · Oct 30, 2013

I ran across this video of 2 homebuilt pieces from the 50's one being a custom tractor, the other a self propelled chopper while looking at youtube videos. These pieces were clearly ahead of their time. Have you, or do you know of anybody that has made any one off tools or pieces of equipment such as these? How did they work?
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NCWayne · Oct 30, 2013

Look back on here about a year for the one off machine I built for a customer. Basically it"s a stationary power unit with a 9930 JD cotton picker cab for an operators station, and a 4-53 Detroit driving a jackshaft with a 540 RPM PTO to drive a small square bailer. The engine also drives a hydraulic pump to power the rest of the machine. What it does is take the big 4x4x8 square wheat straw bales and breaks them up, fluffs the straw back up, and then feeds it into the baler to make small square bales for their retailers to sell to the public. As far as how it works, the best productivity I have seen thus far was a little over 400 small bales an hour coming off of it. If they"d leave the same operator and crew with it all the time they could easily do more, but with new guys running it all the time they simply can"t get a rhythm to everything.

DeltaRed · Oct 30, 2013

This is pretty crude,but I use it almost daily.1937 F-12,repowered with a 4 cyl Jeep,Reversed.I built this about 10 years ago.The pliars I made,use daily.No pictures,but I am currently building a 'hot rod minipuller".A 38 F-12,repowered with a 2.8L V6,Wide front(from a SuperC),14.9x26 combine tires(on homemade rims),Hiesler overdrive....

DeltaRed · Oct 30, 2013

Tandem rake hitch.Built last year.Built from 'scrap iron' and a upsidedown Ford truck axle.Works great!

DeltaRed · Oct 30, 2013

Tanks from 55 gallon barrels

carl reitnauer · Oct 31, 2013

Subsribe to FARM SHOW. 100's of ideas and homebuilt machines,some not so good but some great.

Billy NY · Oct 31, 2013

Some interesting reading/history on custom built earth moving equipment, for similar reasons, there must have been some interesting demands by the large contractors back then, to increase productivity or meet a specific application, seems Peterson could build what you needed.
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PJH · Oct 31, 2013

I like that loader. Brings back memories. When I was a kid, a local sawmill had one similar to yours, built on an AC tractor. It was ballasted pretty heavy, and they moved some big loads with it. I remember being fascinated about the four speeds "forward" in what used to be reverse. At the time, I thought somebody was pretty smart and had figured out how to make that engine run backwards, ha. My dad straightened me out on that subject. . .

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