Tractor Mailbox Built From Junk

Tractor mailbox built from junk AG WORLD Ag World 15-5-18 "It sure catches everyone's eye. Even our Deere mechanic was impressed with it," says Darrel Cheney, Hunter, Kan., who used junk parts to build a replica of an old Deere "D" tractor, then mounted a mailbox on front. Cheney and his brother Mike built the 36-in. high "tractor mailbox" two years ago as a Christmas gift for their parents. "I always liked the style of old D tractors. The first ones had a spoked flywheel, but no exhaust pipe. My replica is based on models that were built two or three years after the first ones came out. I used a photograph and a model that I saw to build it. My neighbor Joe Zachgo helped me. I plan to apply Deere decals to the sides of the tractor." Cheney used an old LP gas cylinder to represent the engine block, an old fuel tank to form the hood, and a piece of evaporator coil out of an old refrigerator as the radiator. The 32-in. tall rear steel wheels were re-moved from an old manure spreader and the 18-in. tall front wheels from an old threshing machine. The steering wheel is a spoked pulley off an old cream separator. Cheney mounted a spoked flywheel on the left side of the tractor and a belt pulley, removed from an old Massey 27 combine, on the right side. The tractor rests on a concrete slab. Cheney used anchor bolts to secure the rear wheels to the concrete. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Darrel Cheney, HCR 61, Box 29, Hunter, Kan. 67452 (ph 913 529-3911).

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