Wheel Horse EXT experimental tractor

[CasualObserver 3,408]

Looking though some cool old garden center industry magazines and came across this article about a research project by the Farm Electrification Council and Lead Industries Association testing the waters of electric tractors. Wonder what ever happened to that prototype!  Would be fun to replicate if the batteries weren't so expensive.

 

This is from April of 1969.

 

[AMC RULES 37,130]

Doubt you would be needing any additional weight to keep that thing planted.  

[SylvanLakeWH 25,577]

Cool photo...

 

I am toying with an E-141 style Black Hood “modified build” using a C 85 or 105 roller and a golf cart style electric motor... on the look out...

 

It would be so quiet maybe my wife won’t notice another one...

[CasualObserver 3,408]

12 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

Doubt you would be needing any additional weight to keep that thing planted.  

 

Right!?  ... that tractor pictured above weighed in at 950 lbs.

[BeninCT 451]

anyone built anything like this?  Kinda interesting

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

There's been some sorta kluge on Craigslist for the past month or so where a guy is trying to sell an 'electric' WH that he built.  Looks a right mess to me.

 

Can't find it now, either he sold it or gave up.

Edited February 4, 2021 by Jeff-C175