41-Year-Old Trucktor Still Going Strong

During 46 years of publishing, FARM SHOW has written about many different trucktors that are a combination of a truck and a tractor. New Yorker Jerry Lilly built his Trucktor four decades ago but figured readers might be interested in another take on the idea.



Lilly used the frame, wheels, operator station, and drive train of a Massey 44 tractor coupled with a 350 V-8 Chevy truck engine. He designed and built a special drive shaft to mate the two components together...Read More!

360-Degree Welding Table Makes Big Jobs A Snap

When John Martens was building large liquid fertilizer caddies, he needed a way to handle the big frames. His 360-degree table and hoist made it easy.

“I manufactured 135 carts over an 8-year period and the table was a big help,” says Martens. “I can clamp frames in place, weld them up, and attach wheels. Using the overhead hoist, I can then pick the caddy off the table, set it down on the floor, and roll it out the door.”

The welding table is made from 4 by 6-in. steel tubing. At one end, the table is attached by a pipe-in-pipe bearing to an irrigation wheel gearbox with forward and reverse drives. It’s powered by a 3/4 hp electric motor. A large pulley from an Oliver model 40 combine...Read More!

Robotic Cart Learns On-The-Go

"Vacuum Leaf Baler"

Grover Miller's "Buckeye Baler" sucks up big piles of leaves and turns them into easy-to-handle small square bales. 

"You can vacuum up leaves, pine needles and other lawn and garden debris and compact them into bales that can be used in the spring as mulch," explains Miller. "I have two models û one for use with a lawn tractor for homeowners, and a larger unit for commercial use, such as golf courses or municipalities."



The basic design is the same. A vacuum sucks up the leaves and feeds them into the bale chamber. A hydraulic motor drives the plunger to form the bales....Read More!

Liberty Quote

“Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.”



~ John Kenneth Gailbraith

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Good Odds

Sven walked up to Ole, who was sitting at the local bar with a pitcher of beer in front of him. “Looks like yur celebratin’ Ole,” he said.

“Vell, ya,” said Ole. “I put a hunnert bucks on a sure ting at da track today. It vas da seventh horse in da seventh race and this is da seventh of da month and it’s my sons seventh birtday. And da odds ver seven to one!”

“And yur horse finished first?” asked Sven.



“No, yew von’t believe it,” declared Ole happily. “He finished seventh!”