Had a guy here that made a mechanical rear wheel drive for a JD 105 combine. This was over thirty years ago.
He took the axles off of a 4 x 4 pickup. He mounted the solid rear axle under the front of the combine and ran chains down to each end from the final drive shafts. This was how he got the power for the rear axle by back driving the truck rear end. then he ran a drive shaft to the back of the combine. Here he mounted the front steering axle of the the pickup. He then had a chain sprocket setup to drive the axle. He had to do this to get the ratios correct for the different tire sizes.
It worked. We had several muddy years there in the early 1980s. He was able to combine where he would not have without the back axle helping. The only bad thing was that he had to remove the drive chains to go down the road. I think they would turn too fast and get thrown off at road speeds. It might have been the ratio was off just a little and on the solid ground it broke the chains. I am not sure anymore. I always thought that it was real smart how he made it work. I wish I had some pictures.
It seemed like in years past you saw a lot of things that guys made like that. Many times it would be livestock equipment or buildings too. We seem to have lost that in the quest to larger farms.
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