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- "With the price of grain the way it is, the average farmer can't justify spending the money on a 300-hp tractor. We built our own for much less and it works just as well as anything out of a factory," says Glen Oetken who helped his father, Gerald Oetken of Larned, Kan., convert a semi truck into a powerful farm tractor.
The completed rig weighs in at about 22,000 lbs., which Gerald figures is about right since he rates it at about 234 drawbar hp (325 flywheel hp). He regularly pulls a 32-ft. double-offset disk or a 38-ft. fallow plow with the tractor and it handles the big equipment with no problem.
The men started with a 1978 International 4300 which originally had a twin-screw rear end with a 325 hp 855 Cummins engine and 10-speed Fuller transmission. They cut the frame off behind the cab and spliced in a shorter home-built frame made from 12-in. channel iron. It's fitted with a rear-end from a 1950's Euclid earth scraper. Glen says the 100-ton rear end's 13:1 gear ratio matched up perfectly with the semi's 10-speed transmission. The only thing they had to do to match them up was to make a new driveshaft.
The semi tractor is fitted with single flotation tires up front -- "I think the mag wheels are a nice touch," says Glen -- and dual 20.8 by R42 tires on back. Making the duals was one of the most difficult parts of the whole project. They made wheel spacers out of 30-in. dia. natural gas pipe.
They fitted the tractor with the 4-spool hydraulic system off a 4-WD Versatile tractor. The semi did not originally have power steering so the hydraulics provide that also.
The Cummins engine was completely rebuilt and the Oetkens installed a dual governor to maintain steady rpm's in the field. Glen says the governor is the same unit found on any farm tractor with a Cummins engine but notes that it's an expensive component to buy new. "You can save a lot of money if you can find a used one. The governor holds the tractor at about 1,800 rpm's in the field," he says.
The tractor has forward speeds ranging from 1.5 mph in 1st gear to over 40 mph in 10th.
One of the most essential features of the truck-tractor is the air brake system. "We rigged up individual air brakes using the truck's original air system," notes Glen. "We can brake either side of the tractor individually or brake all four wheels at once. You have to be able to brake either side to make turns on headlands."
The completed tractor has a much shorter wheelbase than the original twin screw semi. It's about as long as a standard 2-WD tractor, which Glen and Gerald say makes it very maneuverable in the field.
One of the best things about the truck is the comfortable ride. Glen says no tractor can match the home-built tractor's air ride suspension and great view.
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As a diesel & heavy equipment mechanic for 40 yrs I’ve been saying this for many yrs after hearing stories from local farmers who’ve been screwed over by John Deer just because they wanted to fix their own tractors
and obviously the price of new tractors..
Hopefully more older trucks with good engines will start helping out the farmers..
Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The Russians have been doing this for years using large Army trucks , most of them have air cooled V8 or V12 diesels even though modern tractor can be bought spare parts are as close as the nearest Army salvage yard and they are 4 wheel drive .....................
Trust, greedy politicians will come up with someway to outlaw doing this so they can line their pockets.
converting older semi-trailer truck tractors to a farm tractor is an EXCELLENT idea!! old trailer trucks are much more prevalent and cheaper than large farm tractors. and it is clear that a trailer truck can perform as well as a tractor. being able to have a workable, safe, and comfortable "tractor" to do serious farm work for around $20k is MUCH smarter than spending $150k on a "regular" tractor.
it's pretty cool what you can do with old farm equipment and old trucks ,,i'm in my late 40s now and i have built a half dozen machines over the years and i know of a bunch more in my area ,,probably my best yet is my snow blower which is a monster ,, former truck snowblower that i rebuilt and have mounted on a TR96 combine ,,the blower is self powered and originally had a 454 chevrolet truck engine ,,i repowered it with a 5.9 liter cummins diesel , it'll clear 4 feet of snow at a steady 10mph and throw it nearly 100 feet ,,2 feet of snow i can run 22mph ,,,the coolest machine i have seen is a 15 ton forklift a neighbor built out of a semi tractor ,,it's literally a backwards truck ,,he built it for stacking round bales
No doubt man. This is brilliant. I think it could actually be better than sliced bread. 😁
Regular semi trailers won't work on this due to the big rear tires
@@bene5431 yep it's not a truck anymore it's a tractor
@@wildcoyote34 It's a trucktor .
Certainly not a new concept, but one that provides a cheaper alternative and works. I've seen these conversions in the Farm Show magazine for years. Well done.
Great repurposing of a true classic semi tractor. I love it.
Didn’t even finish the video yet but just from the thumbnail and title: awesome
This is the kind of ingenuity we need.
Farmers today got the ( GOV. Farm Bill ) so they just push the BUY NOW BUTTON here in the USA ..............
Wow that is pretty clever. I'm surprised more people haven't gone into that level resourcefulness
Farmers around the world have been doing it since the first engine hit farms. They have used everything from cars to semi trucks.
This is UTILITY . This is what made America great once .
This is what we all have to go back to .
( after we burn Hollywood )
I could not agree more!
See Farmers are some of the Smartest people on this Planet.
badass with the euclid rearend
Very nice build. Probably much easier serviceability as well, as any mechanic working on Modern tractors can attest to.
JD and others are killing their market with, owner's "right to repair" being ignored in their design.
YES your service guy can get in the engine. Unlike modern JD that requires a JD only tech to work on a farm tractor.
Thats pretty cool great job and smart !
Amazing job FELLAS
Whoever you paid to narrate this, I’d get my money back.
There is a strange scratching sound in the background every few seconds.
@@gordonwelcher9598 I don't hear it.
Excellent work.
Great invention for your own purpose.There is always something you can do with old gear.Well done. 😊
I would like to see this tractor in action.
Nicely done and impressive farm fab knowledge and skills.
Thank you for showing this conversation from the old semi to Big Farm puller. Brilliant idea, great use for older class 8 trucks that might just go for scrap. And the Price, just WOW. Start the assembly line by building these.
CONVERSION. A conversation is what we are doing now.
kinda sad to see that the tractor industry fall this far good job to the guy who built this
Nice one i would love to see it in motion , working, accelerating
Brilliant!
Way better than buying a post emissions tractor for sure, I was a John Deere tech, and can tell you the emissions components are crazy expensive.
Can't see any problem with understeer whatsoever - !
That’s what the individual brake system is for!!
I trust a farmer! He built it I’m sure it works great!!
@@mikewest5529
I’ve seen the old line skidders converted.
For 12k this is better c/w suspension👍perfect and better turning.
WoW factor, x 10 ! YOU FELLAS, oughtta S T A R T a business,....doing this. !! You'd make many,....many of them. Get rid of 500,000 dollar computerized modern junk; all the while, making a million farmer friends, XTREMELY CONTENT, AND VERY farming productive. ! Great idea, using rear end from earth mover....as well as the air brake system, and power steering. MY PRAYERS, FOR YOU ALL;....and thank-you, for '' feeding the nation ''.
Cool project.
Well done. And no restrictions on fixing it yourself. Lol.
Literally read out of the Farm Show Magazine from 20 or 30 years ago. Thing has probably been scrapped for years by now.
I’m doing this with a 96 geo tracker on 33s 5speed all gear trans , and t case (factory)
Used to be wicked woods wheeler 🤘
Started with a snow plow ran off the winch and two welded clevis blocks on frame rail to throw the pins in.
Simple quick -works!
Now I have a York rake on rear and going for forklift attachment for front lol just high enough (ran off same winch) .
Also made a rear home made three point receiver hitch shaped like upsideown (two clevises) and 3 foot upright with pulley for cable to pull up and lift /lower the attachment.
Works great!! And it’s all one pin receiver hitch can go on any truck with 2” receiver tube ,power is ran off secondary heavy gauge trailer bulk head plug.
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Love this idea u made it’s wicked and brilliantly simple 🤝
I might go full weld on suspension for the forklift tho on mine 😆😆💪
That is pretty cool!
Exemplary. Truly.
Very well done !!!
There's one great idea really love it that is cool badass would be the best way to describe it I bet it's fun to drive🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲💯👍😎♥️♥️👍👍
Very cool tractor.
Great idea.
I seen one rigged up like this in old Mexico, but it was a old cab over
I was laughing but it was pulling a disc pretty fast
We are coming back to this era, Americans and there ingenuity always prevail. Great job Mc Giver. You have cherry picked the NEEDED TEC and left the rest to the mind of the operator. In turn dropped all the excess tec, which is costly to maintain or correct on failure to which it ALWAYS DOES, examples are the new farm equip, exotic cars. This machine will ware out not SHORT OUT WITH TEC.
I think Henry Ford started making actual tractors because farmers were using his model T for plowing
This was a popular thing to do in the 1980s , due to the inflation during those times.
GREAT !
Nice
Ita cool. As a commercial farmer I see a couple issues. The draw bar on a tractor is designed to pull down and wedge the machine into the ground for traction. Second I would ad that compaction in soft souls is an issue most farmers would rather not see happen, "tracking" in soft soils is a real issue we strive to mitigate while making second or multiple passes. Something that is mitigated by having larger and more tires up front on conventional articulating tractors. Thirdly, ground clearance is also something to consider. Residual materials are usually dry and flammable. With traditional tractors the engine oil pan itself is usually 3 to four feet off the ground mitigating most exposure to buildup and fire dangers around the manifold and turbo hot working parts. The frame work is open and off the ground. I should say this is a very out of the box idea worthy of a gold star no doubt.
They know how to make do with what they have
100% badass
I own this tractor. Gerald is my father. Glen is my brother.
That’s awesome very good❤
Love it
I'm gonna guess it has weight added in rear for traction?
2wd means two-wheel drive. I saw this in the farm show magazine
I remember the first I saw was, I believe a Mack B61 conversion in the Standard, Alberta area in the late '70s or early '80s.
I want to see it move, and especially try to turn lol
They plumbed air for individual brakes, I’m sure they need them
@@larrygro If that's the case did they do two brake pedals between the clutch and gas pedal? I guess two hand brakes next to you like the old VW kits would work as well. I just don't see the front tires doing anything as far as steering with those monsters. Otherwise it's pretty awesome.
@@joshblick not sure, you will have to go back and listen. I just remember hearing that they plumbed individual brakes. I wish they would have shown it in operation.
Should keep the bed and use it as a truck too.
Straight tractors Should go obsolete when a truck can do same job.
Nice American injun nuity love it.
nice
Man, why aren't there more of these?
What is the scratching sound every few seconds in the background?
You might want to check the Carl Upton story from Down Under.
My grandpa built his truck into a tractor back in the early 1950's
Sure would have been nice to see this in motion & working ???
Where can we find videos of this thing in action? Owner social media?
I cant read russian but whatever, I love this idea.
Good video. Except for the computer generated voice.
Pronunciation makes for some confusing text to follow the story.
There is a strange scratching sound in the background every few seconds.
That dented rear wheel concerns me.
Wonder if the AC works? lol
Computer can not pronounce Larned or truck or semi. Get a live announce!
Or dia. Diameter.
But it doesn't have remote gps,locked service repair diagnostic,dpf, manufacture apps for remote startup,keyless entry and all the goodies that break !!!!
YES! YOU CAN REPAIR IT YOURSELF.
Those are available options.
You can even change oil with out hooking it up to a computer.
Surprised there isnt a company doing this yet. Chesper alternative than $500k tractors when a retired semi tractor can be had for around $25k plus conversation maing it around $50k to $75k
Do a school bus next...
Modern doodlebug
Yeah that's awesome
What's lowcost??
It was never a "semi-truck". It was a TRACTOR, just a different TYPE of tractor. Now it's another type of tractor.
And it already comes with an air conditioned heated cab!
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Sim-EYE not simmy. I drove an 18 wheeler for over thirty years and they are NOT a "simmy". Maybe it's that robot voice you're using. But it is still a semi.....as in "semi-trailer". As opposed to a "full trailer". WTF is a simmy ?
Video made with MS-DOS 😆🙌✌️
Great tractor but can't stand the computer narration.
Those are not flotation tires on the front of that those are super singles
Oh look it's a tructor!
interesting build. To bad they use computer generated voice on the video. Lot of mistakes and mispronunciations.
Modern day doodle bug
Just a modern bigger doodlebug.
HAH! 150k for a 300 hp tractor. Dream on
An does the work of a 300.000 follar tractor
I detest AI voiceover. Some schmuk provided his voice DNA and look what they've done with it. Nice rig BTW.
What I would do is cut that tractor junk on back off, and put on a nice air ride cut off.👍👍👍👍👍👍
No idiotic def here
I admire their engineering ability but really for the time and money that they expended on this machine: they could have purchased a real tractor..Again great wprk bit for what?
How much of a 300hp tractor do you think you'd buy for $12,000?
If this tractor dates from the 1980's as I suspect, there were no two wheel drive tractors with even 1/2 this horse power available. To buy the biggest two wheel drive of the time, around 150hp would have been in the range of $80,000. To get this much horse power would have been one of the biggest 4 wheel drive tractors and cost in the area if $125,0000 - ten times what this man invested in this rig. This is a good build and a great investment of effort. Plus, that transmission is far superior to what the regular tractors had at the time.
This is a week's worth of fabrication. Well worth the effort.
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Good video but 👎🏻 for the robo voice
It is cheaper to buy an old tractor
Old tractors now were new tractors 30 or 40 years ago when this semi-tractor was built. And that was when big tractors were really starting to be built so not really an option. There were probably some 10 or 20ish year old ones at the time but with the inflation I'm guessing those were expensive too and they were also pretty new 30 years ago.
I hate robo-voices.
Click bait. this video is just a robot vocie over and a picture. Useless
Thumbs down for the crappy robot voiceover.
Id respect a farmer more running this over one in a shiny new Deere any day.
Only an American Farmer would think of this
No , other farmers have done this in different parts of the world
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LUCKILY YOU DIDN'T SHOW IT WORKING.