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R.W 
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 Topic: Homemade Creations?
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:33am |
What are some of the things you have made that is one of a kind.Things that you have modofied.Tell us or show us your homemade creations!
Thought there mite be some great ideas in your shops or equipment.
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In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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Butch(OH)
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 10:04am |
Built this firewood processor two years ago. Started out with our old home built splitter, a military trailer, a Freeman manure loader and a hercules power unit and ened up with this. Saw is mechanicaly powered and clutched with an ordinary 12V mower clutch. Saw dog and saw lift is by air. WIth about 45 GPM of hydraulics, the saw drive and the air compressor the little IXBL5 Herc gets a work out. We can process about a cord per hour as it is but if I was to add about 40 HP production would easily double. We can process up to 24" diameter wood and the log lift allows us to chain saw the big stuff and still use the splitter.
Kinda ugly but I dont intend to take it out on a date.
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HaroldOmaha
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 10:07am |
Hey! what do you mean ugly? It's beautiful, I'd take it out.
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R.W
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 11:06am |
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Quite a contraption there butch.
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In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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omahagreg
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 12:50pm |
Dad was storing our old HO scale train stuff for YEARS, and he wanted it gone. I said I would take it to my house, but wasn't sure how to set up an area that was 'minimum' effort to store. Used an old boat winch, and 4 cables to suspend this 8' x 8' table in my garage. Put 15" pvc pipes as 'stops' in the up position, as I built this large grain elevator that is also stored on it. It comes down to 36" for use.
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1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader
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Dave in PA
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 3:21pm |
Butch, can you send me a copy of the service manual for the splitter? I am sure that you have one? RIGHT! LOL what works, works!
Dave in PA
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Chuck(ONT)
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 6:09pm |
uploads/27/Lift_005.JPGBoat lift built from scratch, using new and old steel, powered by 2000# 12v atv winch. uploads/27/Lift_002.JPG
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Never take life too seriously.
Nobody gets out alive anyway!
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Gary in da UP
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 6:33pm |
All I have is this trailer, nothing fancy,
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MNLonnie
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 6:40pm |
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Great looking dump trailer.
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Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker
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Larry in OK
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 7:10pm |
 Butch(OH) wrote:
Built this firewood processor two years ago. Started out with our old home built splitter, a military trailer, a Freeman manure loader and a hercules power unit and ened up with this. Saw is mechanicaly powered and clutched with an ordinary 12V mower clutch. Saw dog and saw lift is by air. WIth about 45 GPM of hydraulics, the saw drive and the air compressor the little IXBL5 Herc gets a work out. We can process about a cord per hour as it is but if I was to add about 40 HP production would easily double. We can process up to 24" diameter wood and the log lift allows us to chain saw the big stuff and still use the splitter.
Kinda ugly but I dont intend to take it out on a date.
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You sir are my newest hero.
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Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for much of anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
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BennyLumpkin
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:32pm |
Well this is one of many things I've built.....Dad and I's Hog Cooker....He paid for it, and I built it haha  
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
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BennyLumpkin
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:36pm |
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The frame paint didnt hold up that well to the oven cleaner we use to clean after cooking but I dont much care...I just want it clean when done being used....tractor supply axle, 200 gallon commercial hot water heater, some odds and ends of GM engine parts(455 cam, 1.94 SBC valves, Big Block Olds Rods, stainless grates from a commercial freezer at my buddies junk yard, gate hinges, wheels I found next to a dumpster....and this thing is TOUGH...came unhooked when a buddy hooked it to my truck....rolled 3 times, wiped out a guard rail and all I had to do was loosen the U bolts and put the axle back to center, bend the slide out tray back to straight, and it was good to go again!
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:26pm |
I have a deer stand. 
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Mike(NC)
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 8:40am |
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Benny, Nice job on the cooker. I've found if you just let it cool after cooking the oils and grease from the hog keep the grill from rusting. Looks like you can slide the grill out to turn the hog, but you can also use a pressure washer to clean it. That'll save the paint. I usually fire mine to burn off the grill then pressure wash it if the heat don't fully clean it. It works like the self-cleaning ovens.
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Eddie
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:04am |
Built fold up sprayer for my zero turn mower. Uses old fashioned dimmer switch to turn on and off 12v pump. Sprays 12' strip. Makes small yards really a breeze.
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Allis Chalmers 6060
10' Howse Rotary Cutter
5' Tiller
5' Box Blade
4' Aerator
Ferris Zero Turn Mower W/10' fold up sprayer
John Deere 455 Lawn Tractor
John Deere 955 w/loader &
60" belly mower
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Eddie
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:06am |
Another look.
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Allis Chalmers 6060
10' Howse Rotary Cutter
5' Tiller
5' Box Blade
4' Aerator
Ferris Zero Turn Mower W/10' fold up sprayer
John Deere 455 Lawn Tractor
John Deere 955 w/loader &
60" belly mower
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Eddie
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:08am |
Last Look 
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Allis Chalmers 6060
10' Howse Rotary Cutter
5' Tiller
5' Box Blade
4' Aerator
Ferris Zero Turn Mower W/10' fold up sprayer
John Deere 455 Lawn Tractor
John Deere 955 w/loader &
60" belly mower
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R.W
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:18am |
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You guys come up with some neat stuff keep them comming
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In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:26am |
My Avatar. And a frame boom for my G, that many of you have seen. My picture posting has gone from bad to worse.
Dusty
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917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express"
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 9:52am |
Benny, pig cooker looks great! Made me think of our cooker we made 3 years ago.
Built on a jet ski trailer, with propane tank, and home made fire box.
We have done ribs, chicken, turkeys, brisket, pork loin, burgers, some fish, whole hogs, and this whitetail deer in the picture. Definetly worth building!
Fire box also doubles great to cook breakfast on, for the early morning cooks!!
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 11:24am |
Too numerous to mention, and most of 'em are modifications or attachments to machines, but here's two examples from-ground-up...  This is a rotary phase converter- powered by 240v single-phase, it puts out 230v three-phase to test machine tools and other 3-phase equipment.  This is a crude mobile hoisting machine, wide enough to straddle a common tandem-axle utility trailer. The overhead beam is just at 9', so lift height is limited, but it WILL roll under my current overhead doors. Has a pintle-ring up front, I shuffle it around with the 3-point I made for my D-17. It will lift and move my 10,000lb Cinci #3 vertical milling machine... but more comfortable around 5000lbs.
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Bee
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Posted: 22 Jan 2011 at 11:54am |
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So, I'm thinkin we should all live in the same town somewhere so we can use each others stuff...
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Bob, North Carolina
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