Posted by RBoots on October 29, 2017 at 18:46:55 from (173.241.113.101):
Where do I start with this thing... This thing is something my grandpa built (cobbled) out of a Massey Harris combine, a real small one, I think it was a 33 or 35? He had one he didn't use anymore, and just decided he would build this tractor from it. It's flat belt driven, Continental powered, and will pull the front tires off the ground in a hard pull. It is equipped with a 3 speed trans and a reverse. I don't know for sure how he got it to run 3 speeds forward instead of 3 speeds reverse and one forward if you drove a combine backwards if that makes sense? It has a cobbled up hood he had made out of the combine good for it, but I took it off to get it running the last time I had to move it out of the way. That last time I moved it, it had been setting about 4 years, and I found it had broken the spring tab on the rotor, that's why I took the hood off. This time, it had set for probably 5 more years. I charged the battery, put gas in it, aired up the tires, shot some carb cleaner in the air cleaner, and it took right off. I've never been interested in this thing, but figured while I had it out, I'd see how fast it goes. While I'm sure it ain't that fast, it sure seems like it! The steering is a cobbled up,sloppy, out of control mess, and takes about 2 turns of the wheel before anything up front happens. The fuel pump must be weak, as the gas tank is mounted low, and he had to add a flip cap and tube leading to the pipe fitting in the intake manifold above the carb. He would squirt gas in there to get it to start. Otherwise, you could crank it for an hour and it probably wouldn't start. The wiring looks like it's gonna erupt in flames an any bump in the trail. He never fully got the linkages hooked up to the steering brakes, and never got the hydraulics set up the way he wanted. He solely built this thing for cutting wood, and used to have much taller racks on the front of it, but when he got older, he couldn't steer it with that much wood so he cut them down. His plan for the hydraulic pump was to build a small swing out splitter mounted right on the side of it so he could split and stack right there. The engine mounted hyd pump probably wouldn't run a splitter very well anyway, but it is there, the lines are just looped together for now. My grandpa built this thing probably 25-30 years ago. He was not a welder by any means, or an electrician or mechanic, but somehow he figured how to build this thing, and it actually doesn't work all that bad. Dad would like to haul it to the scrap yard, but I don't know, I may keep it around. I wanted to cut a little wood the other day before we got a bunch of rain again, so I fired it up and took it to the woods. It actually works pretty well for that, and it's wide stance and light weight actually make it get into some pretty wet places. Somewhere around here I have a picture of it when my grandpa got done with it, with fresh paint on it, I'll have to see if I can find it.
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