Oggun Tractor Easy To Customize

Oggun Tractor Easy To Customize Jack Algiere, Tarrytown, N.Y., really likes his Oggun tractor. “The Oggun G is a great little tractor. It was designed for people who want to repair their tractors with parts off the shelf. “We work with a lot of different tractor brands here at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Everything on them, down to the bolts, is customized and has to be purchased from the company. “We design and build lots of open source (shared design) equipment and tools like our chicken coop wagon train (Vol. 43, No. 5). With the Oggun G, we were able to make lots of changes as needed. We bought the first-generation Oggun G, but the floor was too low. Other changes were needed as well. “We cut the tractor in half, raised the floor 6 in., modified how the bar came together, put some new steel plates in and bonded it back together,” said Algiere. “What was great was that we were just working with steel and paint. We couldn’t have made the changes we did on other makes. “With the changes, we were able to put basket weeders under it. We have made a number of different toolbars for it, with sweeps, V-blades and finger weeders for in-row cultivation. “It doesn’t have much weight, so we put weights on the front for cultivation. We just added a peg to the front with a cotter pin in the end to hang 25-lb. bench weights. It provided more traction to the front wheels. “Horace Clements, the founder of Oggun, was very open to the changes we made and what we did with it. He invited us and others to send pictures and testimonials. He makes himself available to his customers to support and learn about new configurations. As a result, they changed a lot of things before introducing the following generations.”

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