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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Homemade Tractor ManBy Bernard M. WilderHE. Prescott Street, Westford, Massachusetts 01886 Quite often in my issues of Gas Engine Magazine I see photos of real cleverly-built homemade tractors. The photo shows you that I am one of those "homemade" men. My small but mobile "beast" consists of a 1928 air cooled Novo engine, model BA-23. Horsepower unknown by me. The engine was originally used on an orchard sprayer here in New England. Other than this grand old arm-strong starting (crank) engine, I used a 1929 Model A Ford transmission, chain drive gear reducer, foreign Ford rear wheels, wheelbarrow for front wheels, unistrut steel members and a bushel of odds and ends. The whole unit is not a thing of beauty-but it will pull a ton and with an oak plow, push snow galore! Bottle size (inside dimensions) is 3½" x 3½" x 7". The pla... 809 of 1179 characters shown.
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