He Built His Own "FARM SHOW" Truck-Tor

He Built His Own "FARM SHOW" Truck-Tor TRACTORS New Tractors 29-3-26 When Reg Crigger of Dryden, Ontario read a FARM SHOW story about a guy who put a tractor rear-end on the back of a truck, he decided he'd like one, too. So he married a 1986 extended cab Ford F-150 1/2-ton pickup with the back end of a 1950 W-6 International farm tractor that had a seized motor. The pickup's motor is hooked to the tractor's transmission through a #80 roller chain drive. The truck-tor has both the truck's automatic transmission and the five speed tractor transmission, yet its top speed is about 40 mph. "That's about all the truck-tor can handle," he says. "I leave the tractor transmission in fifth gear most of the time and let the automatic in the truck adjust the speed," he says. "I can manually change the tractor transmission to a lower gear for a lot more power." Crigger uses the original front power brakes and installed an implement lever for the rear wheels that he can lock in any position or use as an emergency brake. On back, there's a wrecker boom, pto and receiver hitch. "The wrecker boom was an afterthought," he says. "I can take that off with four bolts." Crigger uses the winch as a log skidder, tapping into the tractor's belt pulley. "We've also driven it in some parades and get a lot of laughs as watchers think it's just an old half-ton coming down the street and then notice the large rear wheels and fenders," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Reg Crigger, R.R. 2 Box 40, Johnston Rd., Dryden, Ontario, Canada P8N 2Y5 (ph 807 937-6616).

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