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Re: Re: Re: homemade tractor

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fasting

12-04-2003 10:32:26




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How will you avoid the mistakes that you will make? Building a durable loader/bachhoe from a
two ton truck is quite a stretch from building
a 'field pulling' budget homemade tractor. Why
not repower the loader/backhoe you are pulling
those parts from? With no R & D budget, like the
engineers at Deere/Cat/Case have, how will you
test you ideas? Even these major companies had
flaws in their machines. Fixing one of their
'down' models would seem more practical. You may
regret this industrial task. Pass...

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snitkawl

12-04-2003 16:08:38




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: homemade tractor in reply to fasting, 12-04-2003 10:32:26  
Man, I am glad I don`t think like you. If I was that afraid of making a mistake I would never have built the two forklifts I use every day. I probably would never have bought used diesel engines from trucks and built stationary power units. Since I had no way to test my ideas except to try them, I would never have done anything. What if I had made a mistake? The world would probably have blown up. Come to think of it, I DID make mistakes. Did the world come to an end?
I, too, have a backhoe that I intend to build some kind of mobile unit for. I have some tractor parts and some truck parts, and I am going to find some way to put them together so they will support the backhoe and provide a way to power it. I will make mistakes. When they show up I`ll correct them and I will do it with NO R and D budget.

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Dan in Ore

12-05-2003 02:24:41




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: homemade tractor in reply to snitkawl, 12-04-2003 16:08:38  
I second that emotion. I have modified and built some of the darndest things. I made some mistakes along the way, but now I know what can go wrong. That is my R & D budget. I now use on a recurring basis a tractor, wood splitter and a road grader all either modified or built by me. The best part of it is when the nay-sayers have to eat crow.

Dan



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