Articulated tractor.....6 pictures

[Buzz 502]

One of the guys in our local club, Ken Moore, built this awhile back. He brings it out to shows and uses it around the farm. said he's hauled some pretty good sized logs out of the woods for firewood. Pretty neat looking and fun to drive.

[Rollerman 290]

Buzz thanks for shareing the pics.

I for one find the odd & unusual interesting.

I surprised by how simple it is....do the front an rear axles or the frame have any articulation or are they fixed?

Once again Buzz....very cool. :whistle:

[rustyoldjunk 127]

i like it and i really like the simplicity of the machine.now just add some big bar lug tires,a 3 point,a dozer blade....oops there i go dreaming again lol.

[Curmudgeon 28]

Simplicity at it's best!!!!!

And more than a little bit like what my articulated was turning into, IF I'd been able to keep piddling with it.

I started mine YEARS ago before I'd ever seen anyone else make one. Course in my standard fashion, my original ideas were way too complicated and expensive, though my steering was the same, except I used a belt.

If I'd done then, as my latest ideas were turning into, I might actually have made it go. As is it, never gonna happen. In fact, I think the frame has already went to the scrap yard trying to make space.

[rustbucket 4]

I would so love to see this beast in a tractor pull even if it wasnt leagaly allowed to pull just to see what it would pull truely.

[Curmudgeon 28]

4-wheel drive and all, I'll bet it could pull quite well, however, even given the differentials and such, it's really a very basic, and spartan tractor. I doubt it has the weight to pull all that much.

Just my suspicion, but a good 2-wheel drive tractor, with lug tires, properly weighted, could pull just as much.

[Rollerman 290]

I would say Dale is correct that a standard configuration garden tractor would out pull it.

The tractor is a repro of a design used in golf course sand traps it says.

I'm thinking flotation is the name of the game there.

Also the small Eaton hydro probably wouldn't like it either.

Either way it is simple & cool & I'd take one. :whistle:

[rustbucket 4]

im sure you could add weights to it and such but im sure the small tranny would explode. uncool at the idea of that going but still a cool little machine i wish i had one to play with.

[Buzz 502]

do the front an rear axles or the frame have any articulation or are they fixed?

By coincidence I was at a backyard BBQ and tractor show at my cousins today and Ken had it there. It is fully articulated. I can't view the pictures here at work but I believe it's the third picture that shows where the front and rear halves of the tractor are connected. To the right is the rectangular frame with a yoke attached. You will also see 4 socket head/ allen head bolts. The bolts hold a block in place inside the frame. The block has a hole bored in it with a sintered bronze bushing. The yoke has a shaft that goes through the bushing and is held in place by a lock nut. Once thats bolted together the block is slipped inside the frame and is held in place by the four bolts. If you look at the place where the frame and block come together you can see a little grease seeping out. Such an easy and simple set up ..........

[Curmudgeon 28]

Oh heck yeah!!!!!! I never said it wouldn't be something I'd like to take for a spin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!