Thanks all for your replies. I am truthful in what I am seeking, so I will say why I need it in adition to my back. I lost my license over a speed trap ticket, when I was not speeding, and I refused to pay the ticket, but in most states, you dont have to have a drivers license to drive a tractor. I figured it all up, and what I was spending on tags, insurance and gas, was about $4000.00 a year. As I have land I can claim as a farm, so I can still write it all off.
My plans are to build a tractor out of commonly available parts, no specific brand, but leaning toward a Chevy 250 straight six with a 4 or 5 speed standard, using an rv front and rear disk brake suspension from an old rv demobilized as a guest house at my place, and it has air bag suspension with 411 gears. All truck frames were serialized beginning in 1958, so to get around accusations of an unlicensed vehicle, I will have to use an existing farm tractor frame (the most ideal), custom build a frame or order a new frame from somewhere. Thinking about that, I dont know if rv frames are stamped, I will have to find out if the frame I have is stamped. I may simply section the frames to omit the stamping, after all, I will not be removing or adding numbers, just frame pieces.
I am seriously looking at the same rear suspension used on Chevy trucks from 60 to 72, as the trailing arm/coil suspension, basically a fixed/floating fourlink, simply because it ends at the rear axle, however, this suspension was only used on the half ton to my knowledge. I drove one for ten years, and never had a single problem with it, and I know that I hauled over 1 1/4 ton of crumbled drywall in the shortbed on a single trip to the local land fill. They charged by the pound, using a calibrated scale like the "Cat" scales.
Whatever I use to build it with, the tractor will be either blue or green, because red attracts the cops too much. I already have an aluminum cab, that I stopped and picked up off the side of the road years ago. Knew there was a reason I never scrapped it.
I will look through here and see what I can find to help me build my dual use tractor, as to my others, I have 2 JD 400 diesel backhoe, 2 IH 3414 one gas, one diesel, and 3515, and a case 350, and 310 crawler, and a 175 IH/dresser. I have looked here before to get answers to problems, but never had the time to say thanks to all for their helpful postings. I will keep yall posted on the build, but I am slow.
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