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"2-Seater" Makes Show-Going Fun
When Dale Lemmerman and Carlo Shefveland go to antique tractor and engine shows, they do so in style, riding on a two-seat, 2-wheeled trailer pulled behind a restored walk-behind garden tractor. Both riders sit on metal tractor seats.
"It draws quite a bit of attention wherever we go," says Shefveland.
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"2-Seater" Makes Show-Going Fun TRACTORS Made-It-Myself 30-6-23 When Dale Lemmerman and Carlo Shefveland go to antique tractor and engine shows, they do so in style, riding on a two-seat, 2-wheeled trailer pulled behind a restored walk-behind garden tractor. Both riders sit on metal tractor seats.
"It draws quite a bit of attention wherever we go," says Shefveland.
They found the 1945 Bready garden tractor at a junkyard. The tractor originally was designed to pull implements such as a disk, single bottom moldboard plow, and cultivator, with the driver walking behind the implement.
The engine was worn out so they replaced it with a Wisconsin 2-cyl., 6 hp engine off an old cement mixer. The original wheel rims were rusted out so they replaced them with 15-in. car wheels. They cut out the inside part of the rims and welded on three big metal tabs that bolt onto the tractor's single axle. They built the 2-wheeled trailer using the wheels and rear axle off an old riding mower. They made their own brake band, which mounts inside an oil filter wrench. To use the brakes, the driver uses the heel of his foot to push down on a handle located on a foot peg.
An acceleration lever and a clutch lever mount on the tractor handlebars. They replaced the tractor's original rope start with an electric starter off a Mercury outboard motor. The starter is activated by pulling on a lever.
"We had to put a ring gear on the Wisconsin engine. The starter goes into the ring gear and turns it over," explains Shefveland. A small battery located behind the engine provides starting power. If the driver wants, he can ring a bell (off an old streetcar) by pushing with the heel of his foot on a lever.
"If it looks like rain we can quickly put up an umbrella that mounts on a metal tube between the two riders," notes Shefveland.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dale Lemmerman, 18927 Jewel St., Wyoming, Minn. (ph 763 434-7936) or Carlo Shefveland, 5807 Lyndale Ave. N., Brooklyn Center, Minn. 55430 (ph 763 561-8871).
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