Custom Tracked Tractor Built With Minneapolis-Moline Hood

Custom Tracked Tractor Built With Minneapolis-Moline Hood TRACTORS Antiques Harlan Nonhof from Phillipsburg Kan built a custom-tracked tractor The hood grille and lights came from an old Minneapolis-Moline tractor and it’s powered by a Kohler 2-cylinder air-cooled engine that drives two bi-directional hydraulic pumps These power a hydraulic motor on each track Overall it weighs about 1 900 lbs Nonhof bought the MM hood and grille in 2007 dreaming of using it for a tracked tractor Five years later he began the build and completed it almost 3 years later in late 2014 By early 2015 the track tractor was fully operational for a test run on his brother-in-law’s farm In the building process Nonhof also constructed a hauling trailer and raised platform for working on it “I kept a list of every nut bolt piece of metal etc that I purchased ” says Nonhof  “The list has 332 lines 17 pages with a total cost of $6 818 75 ” “I put a dozer blade on it that I bought with a John Deere riding mower  I had used the blade to move some soil in the yard to prevent rain run-off from getting into the house basement ” he says Since its completion Nonhof has entered his tractor in the Phillips County Kan Fair and the parade for the 2015 Kanas Biggest Rodeo celebration “I pulled the trailer with the tractor behind our 1970 Chevrolet Blazer ” he says I couldn’t drive the tractor as the tracks would have damaged the street surface ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Harlan Nonhof 431 S Fifth St Phillipsburg Kan 67661 ph 785-447-0241

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