Look what I found.

[Jeff]

It was hiding buried in the back corner of our storage barn. It's going to need some major inoculations of blue creeper to get it going. It appears to be seized.

[Magicman]

That is a new one on me with the motor inside of the wheel!!   

[VictorH]

That's really neat

[DelawhereJoe]

I think there would be a market around here for that thing with the Amish, they don't use pneumatic tires but do use gas motors on equipment. I've seen them use tractors, skidloaders, mini excavators and mowers just as long as they don't have pneumatic tires.

[Jeff]

I'll try to dig up the photos from when I got it. Brother Noble gave it to me years ago. It had laid in a Missouri Field for decades. With the help of Rust Reaper, now known as Bluecreeper, I got it a part and sort of restored it.

[DelawhereJoe]

Do you have any idea when and by whom it was made, even if the front tines can't cut in that metal drive wheel will till the ground for you.

[Jeff]

Here is what it looked like when I brought it home.


  

  

  

 

And a link to an old topic on the forum when I finished it.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,6561.0.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM3VAkA6Q6c

[Jeff]

[gspren]

   That is really interesting, I've been to a bunch of old tractor shows and don't remember one of those.

[Den Socling]

You have done a lot of nice work, Jeff.

[r.man]

That is definitely a conversation starter and would be popular at any gathering.

[mesquite buckeye]

Looks like somebody's improvement of the old big wheel push cultivators. Very cool. ;D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[21incher]

Never seen one of them before. I think that it belongs in the American History Museum. Looks like it would work good hooked to the front of a logging arch for tight spaces.

[Czech_Made]

That is some clever engineering in that thing.