Wedding Tractor

[Lee Schierer]

My niece is getting married next year and she asked me if I could make some wooden tractors as favors for the younger children that would be attending the reception. She will be marrying a young man that is a farmer and she felt the tractors would be appropriate. Here is the prototype tractor I came up with.

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I looked around the internet for Bar tread tires for the rear wheels and couldn't find any. So, I put on my thinking cap and figured out how to make my own. I have to make the left side separate from the right side for each tire because the herringbone patterns are reversed on the left and right side of the tire. I came up with a jig that is pretty simple and I can make two halves at a time.

Now all I have to do is get her approval and determine how many she is going to want.

Thanks for viewing.

[Keith Westfall]

Nice!

Is the post in the front an extension of the front wheel pivot point? If so, a small "wheel" type of piece may be added to the post to help steer and keep it from falling out...

[Lee Schierer]

If you look closely at the exhaust stack there is a step just above the hood, where there is a sleeve that keeps it from falling out. I'm still debating wheter to make the front wheels steerable or fixed.