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Home-Built All Purpose Vehicle
I call this home-built rig an APV - All Purpose Vehicle. I built it out of whatever I could find laying around my farm, including a 5 hp Briggs & Stratton engine and a 4-speed truck transmission from around 1940 with a chain drive to the axle. I built a combo gearbox chain drive for the steering.
  I've got a lift on back that's raised and lowered by a 1/2-in. cordless drill driving a worm gearbox that turns a little drum I made for a small cable. The photo shows it fitted with a weed killer for the garden with 41 spikes on it to make weeds wish they had stayed away. I also plan to make a mower for the front of it this winter. (Ken Voigt, 9208 Pasture Lane, Wausau, Wis. 54403 ph 715 842-8471)


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2006 - Volume #30, Issue #6