Tractors and stuff, the great WIP topic

[Sjoemie himself]

Sooo it's been a while since i've posted here.. reason being that life happened 

Anyway also been a while since i've looked at my lego but recently i've gotten the itch to build a thing or two. Most of them are not complete and maybe never will be but I like building and it's a stress relief so why not?

Pictures? Sure! Without many words. Just wanted to share them because in my opinion there are way to little tractors being built in lego form and even less tractor pullers. So here goes..

Ford County 754

 

Mini puller or 'mini rod' as i believe they call them in the USA..

 

Unlimited tractor puller with three turbine engines 

 

And last but not least, unlimited tractor puller with 16 cylinder radial engine WIP

 

Edited September 8, 2020 by Sjoemie himself
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[JintaiZ]

Great build!

[lcvisser]

I really like that first one, the blue old-school tractor. Reminds me of wat Technic once was before all the studs disappeared 

[Sjoemie himself]

Thank you both. I agree that the Ford fits pretty good in the line of the first technic models like the red (MF) tractor.

[MinusAndy]

I love the radial engine! Do you have any more pics of it?

[TechnicRCRacer]

What tires are on the Ford County? I don’t think I have seen those before.

[1gor]

1 hour ago, TechnicRCRacer said:

What tires are on the Ford County? I don’t think I have seen those before.

This one 

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4267&idColor=11#T=C&C=11

[TechnicRCRacer]

@I_IgorThank you! Weird, I’ve seen the sets that contain it but never actually noticed the tire.

[Maaboo the Witch]

Nice use of purple on that puller! The County's awesome as well - looks like those tyres were built for it! 

[1gor]

13 hours ago, TechnicRCRacer said:

@I_IgorThank you! Weird, I’ve seen the sets that contain it but never actually noticed the tire.

No problem at all 

[Sjoemie himself]

Wow so many positive comments. Thank you all!

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@MinusAndy Do you have any more pics of it?

I'm working on all of the tractors at once so progress on one particular tractor can be slow. I'll work on one until i get stuck or run out of parts and move on to the next. When i have progress i will post some new pictures.

@Maaboo35 thank you. Glad you like the County. I had it in my head for a little while and decided to build it simple to get it out of my system 

[1gor]

County could be interesting with CLASS tires and lots of functionalities, perhaps even PF of C+ MOC...

[Sjoemie himself]

Thought about it.. i'll maybe try that later. As of now I could'nt think of a mechanism to drive the front wheels realistically. The original tractor has two seperate driveshafts, one to each wheel, to power the front axle. With the Claas wheel size you would have some more room but still it would be difficult to make it look and function like the real thing.

[1gor]

Perhaps some ideas for tatra suspension with one shaft driving left wheel and one driving right wheel could give you idea for solution...(and two 4L differentials in length position; one for front and one for rear).

[Sjoemie himself]

I'll keep that in mind, thank you. For now i'm having to much fun with the pullers. Will post an update tomorrow.

[1gor]

I have 12 pullers in my inventory but tire is simply way to wide for my perception on models...

[Sjoemie himself]

12 pullers, really? Do you have pictures of them? Would be cool to see some pictures of pullers created by others.

Which tires do you use on your pulling tractors?

[1gor]

1 hour ago, Sjoemie himself said:

12 pullers, really? Do you have pictures of them? Would be cool to see some pictures of pullers created by others.

Which tires do you use on your pulling tractors?

I have 12 tires (tractor puller tires) in my inventory...

[Sjoemie himself]

On 9/13/2020 at 10:30 AM, I_Igor said:

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Interesting. Are you planning on building tractor pullers?

Been working on getting something out of my head again. This time it is a Versatile 936 tractor. No functions to speak of. I just wanted to build a tractor like this in a small(ish) scale. And lets be honest,  that colour combination is just awesome on a tractor.

 

[1gor]

Hm I had images if Buhler Versatile with white roof, but imagine how cool it would be with LEGO tractor tires. Last tractor that I made (some 7 years ago) with powepullers was Deere 7230R; here is a gallery 

https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=535335

I do not like tread pattern on balloon (and powepullers), so I try to use other tires on my creations

[Sjoemie himself]

You are right, newer Versatile tractors have a dark brownish red and white paint sceme. I would like to build this with Claas tires someday but I will have to gather some parts first and make somekind of blueprint. This I just built off of pictures so the scale and dimensions might be a little off.

I also agree with you on the ballon tires, they look like garbadge on a tractor. That is why I used third party tires for the pullers. For these smaller tractors I like the old technic tire, they are 'close enough' to true agricultural tires.

By the way, I do like your John Deere technic model. You've captured the lines and overall shape very well 

[1gor]

Thanks, bonnet lines are the most complicated to replicate (I have my issues with Fastrac bonnet  )

[Sjoemie himself]

That is why I chose the Versatile. Nice and square 

[1gor]

1 hour ago, Sjoemie himself said:

That is why I chose the Versatile. Nice and square 

Well one of my project is Syn-trac (no bonnet at all)