Build a Tractor for your kids

That is three times. I hope you are not trying for four because if you are, you will be my first ever rcm plonk.

Wes

I looked at the plans for the baby tractor. It uses a Maytag single cylinder washing machine engine. They took power fron the left side of the engine, a thing that I have never seen before! I don't think there is even a hole in that starter gear casting. It was nice for me to see a reference to needing a blacksmith if you wanted to add the "uneven ground" mod.

Pete Stanaitis

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greggspen wrote:

No, I'm sorry about the multiple posts of this topic. The post didn't appear and I figured I must have somehow not sent it. Ooooooooooops

Where does one find a gas-powered washing machine these days??

Buile a tractor for my kids? Grandkids? You've never seen my kids, have you?

They could mess up a large anvil with their hands. I thought they should become involved in destructive testing. They'd be good at it, because they always want to know just how far how fast or how whatever this thing will do before it breaks or one of them goes flying off.

It must mean something when you are on a first name basis with the people at the ER.

Steve

You'd be surprised. There must be 10,000 of the Maytag engines alive and well. I see them often, the engines and /or the washing machines, I mean, at threshing shows. One guy I knew had at least 20 of the engines, all nicely restored and repainted, wrapped in plastic on a shelf. Pete Stanaitis

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Rex wrote:

And SWMBO thought I was overdoing it with three B&S powered lawn mowers. Last week I had to resurrect the least promising of the lot to mow the weeds after 2nd son took one last year and Junior bought real estate this year. Gotta keep my eyes open Saturday mornings again! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

On Thu, 17 May 2007 21:41:42 -0400, Gerald Miller wrote: SNIP

Hah!! Beat you to it last week Gerry. I picked up a B&S 4 cycle in Strathroy that was a "FREE" at the end of the driveway. Had a leaky gas tank, but taken off and put on my old Roto-tiller works just fine!!

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.

Ebay.

Here's a homebuilt motorcycle a friend of mine fabricated using one of those Maytag engines: