Sampling Of Stories Featured in the Current Issue of FARM SHOW Magazine:
Gator Remodeled Into A Dump Trailer
Dan Walters of Nashville, Ind., transformed an abandoned UTV into a tow-behind dump trailer. “The trailer started life as a 6x4 John Deere Gator diesel model. A 2002, to be exact,” he says. “My wife’s family had bought it gently used around 2008, and it’s lived a hard life since then.”
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3D-Printed Custom Cab Accessories
3D-Printed Custom Cab Accessories
Farm Sip Supreme specializes in custom, 3D-printed accessories for operators in tractors and other farm equipment. “I always help at the family farm during harvest,” explains founder Scott Diekmann. “One of the tractors had a terrible cup holder sol...
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Ergonomic Garden Tool Best Buy
Jim Ruen, La Crescent, Minn.: “When FARM SHOW asked me to try the EarthLifter tool, I readily agreed. I liked the potato fork look but questioned the value of the rolling fulcrum backside. Boy, was I wrong.
“Yes, the wide, flat tines look like the old potato...
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Trimmer Handle Improves Posture
The Darwin’s Grip PRO series of trimmer accessories are designed to reduce pain and fatigue while trimming. “It’s a handle extension that allows you to stand up straight and square off your shoulders for a more natural position,” says founder Robbie Hamilton. “It adds more balance, reducing fatigu...
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CAT Museum Showcases Giant Equipment
There’s no better way to get an eye-opening and up-close look at CAT equipment over the years than to visit the company’s museum in Peoria, Ill. The 50,000-sq. ft. facility is loaded with historic machines, design stations, four theaters, eight exhibit galleries and memorabilia documenting the com...
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Mini Tractor Made From Scratch
“I love those early 1900s steel wheel gas tractors like the Rumely Oil Pull, Fairbanks Morse 15-25 and the International friction drive, but they’re rare and expensive to own, so I decided to build my own mini tractor,” says Shawn Strunk, a Wichita, Kan., machinist and manufacturing engineer...
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