Home-Built "ATV" Fitted With Tractor Cab

Home-Built ATV Fitted With Tractor Cab ATV S Visibility is amazing on the “Farm Rat” that John Eilers built for use around his Pana Ill farm
    Eilers has a reputation for putting “the unusual” to work such as the dog house he made out of an old Deere tractor cab featured in FARM SHOW’s Vol 34 No 5 This time he made use of another Deere tractor cab mounting it on the chassis of an S-10 Chevy pickup
    Fitted with big truck tires and running boards made out of wood planks the Farm Rat is mostly used as a “command” vehicle around Eiler’s place However it’s licensed for road use and can often be spotted in the local McDonalds parking lot
    “People tell me I should give it a coat of paint and put a hood over the engine But I tell them that if I painted it I couldn’t call it the Farm Rat anymore ” Eiler’s jokes
    He was amazed at how well the tractor cab fit onto the truck chassis and over the front edge of the truck box “It almost looks like it was meant to be there ” he says
    To give it a different look up front the truck is fitted with a 1930 Model A Ford pickup radiator And the engine cover on top is a cooking pan he sneaked out of his wife’s kitchen
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup John Eilers 2095 E 350 North Rd Pana Ill 62557 ph 217 562-4021

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