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Anyone seeing a red-bodied tractor with bright green wheels in or around Charles City, Iowa, in early 1954 might’ve wondered who on earth came up with that scheme. Manufacturing Oliver equipment was a significant industry in Charles City at the time, but their tractors were green with red wheels and a yellow grill. Read More: conta.cc/4v5vAil
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Jerry Clermont replaced the original gas engine in his Ford 9N with a 24-volt, solar-charged system. Solar panels on an overhead frame supply electric power stored in the tractor’s four 6-volt batteries. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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In order to start weaning his pair of Holstein cross bottle calves with the help of some feed, Caleb Howerton of Green Thicket Farm in Springfield, Mo., made a calf feeder out of a 5-gal. bucket and some scrap wood. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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“I’m a machinist by trade and use an outdoor wood burning furnace to heat our home. I wanted an easier way to handle our firewood, so I built this labor-saving collection of equipment for less than $2,000,” says Wes Newman, Beaver County, Alberta. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Old oil filters don’t last long in Dale McLaen’s on-farm auto repair shop. His shop-built, hydraulic crusher can handle even large truck and tractor filters and do it faster than $1,600 commercial alternatives. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Heather Ramsay rolls, drains and prepares drip tape for storage in one step. With several thousand feet of drip tape to put away each season, speed and ease are important to the Vancouver Island market gardener. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Quinton Tschetter, Oskaloosa, Iowa: "I joined two rakes together by running a bolt through both handles to serve as a pivot point. To pick up leaves and mulch, I just grab both handles and pull them apart. I replaced the rakes’ original wooden handles with rigid 3/4-in. dia. aluminum tubes because they can handle more pressure without breaking. The tubes are off an old coat rack." Submit your own idea: lp.constantcontactpages.com/…
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Troy Hall says his father Ken’s Deere XUV835 Gator is a great utility vehicle that does all sorts of work, but until recently it had one big drawback. “The engine air intake was close to the rear wheel where it drew in a lot of dust and dirt when the vehicle was used on gravel roads and dusty fields,” Hall says. “He was constantly cleaning the air filter because the engine was losing power.” farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Cal Miner, Willmar, Minn.: "I cut a 265-gal. fuel oil tank in half and then welded bed frame angle irons around the edges to build this 2-wheeled trailer. Bed frames are made from springy, high carbon steel so you don’t want to use them on structural projects or they’ll crack, but they work good as an edge liner to hold the tank straight." farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Al Hernke is one of those well-seasoned farmers who’s never seen a piece of junk metal that can’t be made into something worthwhile. “We had an old 25-in. dia. and 25-in. deep Terragator rim behind the shed, and after looking at it several times while mowing lawn, I decided that it was just the right shape to make into a small tree spade,” Hernke says. conta.cc/49NVIWr⁠
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Growing up on an Ohio dairy farm, Mark Jones says he avoided milking cows whenever possible, always loved machinery, and especially enjoyed seeing scale model tractors at farm shows. “Those little tractors really spurred my interest to build a scale model of my dad’s Cockshutt 570 and two implements from scratch,” Jones says. conta.cc/49NVIWr⁠
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John Betka figures he’ll get more years of use out of his $250 home-built grapple than he would from a $1,600 grapple. It’s already proven to be a useful piece of equipment for moving trees, lifting slash, and transporting boulders around his Walkerville, Montana, property. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Dennis McClung’s urban “farm” in Mesa, Arizona, began with an old in-ground swimming pool. “When we bought our house, we loved the location and knew we wanted to grow food, but we had a limited space and budget,” McClung explains. A big area of the lot was taken up by a pool that required $10,000 of repairs. Instead, McClung turned it into a hoop house to create a greenhouse. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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“My Kubota B6200 tractor, which I sometimes enter in pulling contests, has a light front end. I tried hanging weights on front, but it didn’t really help,” says David Simpler, Elkton, Md. “So I found two new 16-in. dia., cast iron Brillion cultipacker wheels weighing 25 lbs. apiece. They fit perfectly just inside the lip of the wheel rim on the tractor’s front wheels.” farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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While electric wells are unmatched from a convenience standpoint, they can leave you in a lurch if the power goes out. Some aim to counteract this problem by installing hand pumps on their electric wells. This ensures they always have a way to access their water supply no matter the status of the power supply. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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“In an issue of FARM SHOW Phil McIntyre of Montgomery, Texas described how he moved an RV carport with his Massey Ferguson 50 hp tractor. I recently used the same idea to move a big building with a Deere 4120 tractor,” says Jeff Weller of Dunnellon, Fla. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Flat-bottomed bins with an aeration system work well to dry grain but farmers still need to go in and shovel out the last couple hundred bushels. Hopper-bottomed bins empty by gravity flow, but aeration systems don’t work as well in them, often leaving dead pockets and spoilage. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Old 3-pt. mounted graders can be turned into low-cost pull-type units for use with tractors that don’t have a 3-pt. hitch, says Tim Mounce, Downing, Wis., who sent FARM SHOW photos of a 2-wheeled, pull-type grader that he made. farmshow.com/a_article.php?a…
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Robert Pomnitz wrote to FARM SHOW in the fall of 2023 to describe the journey of a homemade tractor he built more than 50 years ago in 1972. He built the tractor from spare parts, ran it for a few years, sold it, and reacquired it 35 years later. conta.cc/4dfsQsg
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The Rosetown Antique Power Club has one of the rarest of rare tractors. No authenticating documentation or even a serial number exists. However, it appears to be a 1916 Ford Model B, one of only 30 ever built. conta.cc/4dfsQsg
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