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Offline madcrow

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Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« on: December 22, 2013, 07:18:13 pm »
I will try to break the pics up in posts for the people on dial up.  Up first are a couple of homemade tractors.  A chopped down chevy rearend, chevy transmission and wisconsin 18hp motor.  The red one can be cranked by battery or the old hand crank on the front of the motor.  The blue one has fluid filled tires and he was working on a front end loader for it.





A homemade three wheeler he used for pulling the mowing deck he made.



The mowing deck.



His latest project.  Not a complete zero turn mower, it does have about an 8 inch turn radius.  Seperate motors for teh body and deck.



More to come in a few minutes.
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Offline madcrow

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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2013, 07:23:32 pm »
Here are a few of the trailers he has made for himself.

16 foot lowboy


5 x 8 dump trailer.


He started this one out as a small cattle trailer and later when he quit the cow business, we cut it down.  I use it for hauling the mower, but it has held over 3,000 pounds of cattle before.

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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2013, 07:44:20 pm »
Again COOL....quite a fabricator!!!!!
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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2013, 08:03:54 pm »
Yes he was.  Once he got a picture in his head of what he wanted, he worked until it was just like that pic.
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Offline bow101

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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2013, 08:06:04 pm »
I like seeing stuff like that, its amazing what the imagination will come up with.
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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2013, 09:09:46 pm »
Awesome builds  8)
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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2013, 09:28:24 pm »
he was a genius.thanks for the look.
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2013, 10:00:19 pm »
amazing what a person with an imagination and a welder can do. those are all very cool
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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2013, 10:44:04 pm »
Cool trailers, but I hated hand cranking Wisconsin motors on drill rigs in the 70's
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Re: Stuff my dad made over the years. Pic heavy
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2013, 12:17:22 am »
That stuff is great. Hardest part of any projrct is getting the picture in your head. IMO.
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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2013, 01:06:42 am »
I see now where your talent comes from. Excellent work!

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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2013, 04:21:08 am »
Way cool stuff, innovative well made stuff looks like
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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2013, 10:48:02 am »
Very talented man..Thanks for sharing
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« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2013, 02:47:50 pm »
The two little tractors and three wheeler are awesome. That zero turn mower is over the top cool as well. Great stuff, thank you for sharing the pictures
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Offline paoliguy

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« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2013, 04:17:04 pm »
That seems like a lost art. I remember as a kid everybody, especiallyl the farmers, would make whatever it took to get the job done. We never just went and bought a new anything. Usually we would drag home something somebody else had already wore out and commenced making it work.

Those are pieces of America's finest art form in my opinion. I'm glad you have them and the memories that go with them.
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