tractor-mower project 1
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Hi all, after consulting my wife on buying a SCUT/CUT she has, well firmly disagreed with the idea. However my dilemma is that I am wanting to create a garden/planting area, and due to our soil being 99% clay, I've had to approach the costly territory. So what I want to ask is:
Out of these three, what would be best
1. 7hp rear tine Chinese tiller
2. Tea20
3. Homemade tractor
Now I am limited to around ~5000aud or 3500-4000 usd. anything newer than an old Fergie is too expensive, and anything larger is a no due to size. (Well the fergie is already much too big but it's the smallest I can find).
I was initially planning on building a small wheeled tractor, with most likely a very low geared 19hp lawnmower engine, and another to purely drive the pto. This would allow me to build to the size I require, aswell as using mostly cheap or readily available parts. The issue I ran into was:
A hydrostatic off a lawnmower would burn out long before the tractor could much of anything, and the rear pto gives me some concern about HP/torque.
So my option now is to take a small car engine, detune it massively and run the entire system off of that. But that would require a transmission, which I would have to gear down myself, and the engineering for the pto would be far harder.
The other option is to build a tracked vehicle, as thatway I would have cabin AC, better traction, better stability , and tighter turns (a big must). However I'm completely lost on what to do in terms of transmission type, how to get said transmission to work. I was thinking clutch and brake but I would need to learn fully how to assemble that.
I do want a small as possible tractor due to size issues, imagine Kubota BX/b7000 series size. Hence why as the only small high hp second hand tractor in aus is a tea20. So what would I be best building? A small tracked homemade 2wd, or a smidge larger tracked vehicle? And what improvements would you make?
Out of these three, what would be best
1. 7hp rear tine Chinese tiller
2. Tea20
3. Homemade tractor
Now I am limited to around ~5000aud or 3500-4000 usd. anything newer than an old Fergie is too expensive, and anything larger is a no due to size. (Well the fergie is already much too big but it's the smallest I can find).
I was initially planning on building a small wheeled tractor, with most likely a very low geared 19hp lawnmower engine, and another to purely drive the pto. This would allow me to build to the size I require, aswell as using mostly cheap or readily available parts. The issue I ran into was:
A hydrostatic off a lawnmower would burn out long before the tractor could much of anything, and the rear pto gives me some concern about HP/torque.
So my option now is to take a small car engine, detune it massively and run the entire system off of that. But that would require a transmission, which I would have to gear down myself, and the engineering for the pto would be far harder.
The other option is to build a tracked vehicle, as thatway I would have cabin AC, better traction, better stability , and tighter turns (a big must). However I'm completely lost on what to do in terms of transmission type, how to get said transmission to work. I was thinking clutch and brake but I would need to learn fully how to assemble that.
I do want a small as possible tractor due to size issues, imagine Kubota BX/b7000 series size. Hence why as the only small high hp second hand tractor in aus is a tea20. So what would I be best building? A small tracked homemade 2wd, or a smidge larger tracked vehicle? And what improvements would you make?