Posted by mkirsch on May 13, 2011 at 06:05:29 from (64.80.110.74):
In Reply to: Homemade options posted by DeltaRed on May 12, 2011 at 21:48:25:
If the modification is tastefully done, it's worth saving.
Case in point, there was a Farmall 200 at a recent consignment auction. It had a homemade loader and a GIANT set of homemade "fenders" on it.
The frame of the loader was an old pickup truck frame that looked like it was beat into place by the Jolly Green Giant. They used the spring shackles as the pivot points for the loader arm. The pivot pins were only maybe 1/2" in diameter at most. Gobs of weld everywhere, patches, haphazardly bent metal...
Something like that would have to go. There was enough scrap steel on that tractor to pay for the tractor (presumably non-running, bad tires, generally an abused tractor).
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