https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=DIY_and_Alternative_Tractors 2026-04-09T15:47:43Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.13 https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=DIY_and_Alternative_Tractors&diff=113081&oldid=prev 2013-12-24T11:13:10Z

<p>Add soltrack and update link</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:13, 24 December 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Bob==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Bob==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Open source is a new term but hardly a new concept. There are &quot;free&quot; and &quot;do it yourself&quot; tractor plans out there. Some were published in the likes of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Open source is a new term but hardly a new concept. There are &quot;free&quot; and &quot;do it yourself&quot; tractor plans out there. Some were published in the likes of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There&#039;s probably some overlap among these:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There&#039;s probably some overlap among these:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.vintageprojects.com/tractor-plans.html</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.vintageprojects.com/tractor-plans.html<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeTractorPlans.html</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeTractorPlans.html<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">longwood</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">edu/staff</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">riderkb</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tractor</del>/</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">youtube</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">user</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bentonkb</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">videos&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Looks like The Mother Earth News had plans in 1978 and 1982 (around the end of the heyday of the back to the land movement):</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Looks like The Mother Earth News had plans in 1978 and 1982 (around the end of the heyday of the back to the land movement):<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1978-09-01/Bill-Whitakers-Homemade-Tractor.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1978-09-01/Bill-Whitakers-Homemade-Tractor.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/do-it-yourself-mini-tractor-zmaz82jazgoe.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/do-it-yourself-mini-tractor-zmaz82jazgoe.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are plenty on youtube, start with:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are plenty on youtube, start with:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKwmwnCcvM</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKwmwnCcvM<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And, of course, all patents effectively become open source when they expire. And as Scott points out sometimes de facto open source sooner.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And, of course, all patents effectively become open source when they expire. And as Scott points out sometimes de facto open source sooner.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Scott Justice==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Scott Justice==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I just saw this two days ago in CAMARTECH Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and Rural Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I just saw this two days ago in CAMARTECH Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and Rural Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l21">Line 21:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*See also [[Tinkabi Tractor]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*See also [[Tinkabi Tractor]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[Tractor for Africa]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[Tractor for Africa]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Soltrack [http://www.renewables.com/Products/SolTracCrawler.htm http://www.renewables.com/Products/SolTracCrawler.htm]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Jth https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=DIY_and_Alternative_Tractors&diff=90656&oldid=prev 2013-03-31T17:41:09Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Liks</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:41, 31 March 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l20">Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=Liks=</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=Liks=</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*See also [[Tinkabi Tractor]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*See also [[Tinkabi Tractor]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[Tractor for Africa]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Marcin https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=DIY_and_Alternative_Tractors&diff=90652&oldid=prev 2013-03-31T17:12:54Z

<p>Created page with &quot;=From Berea Contacts= ==Bob== Open source is a new term but hardly a new concept. There are &quot;free&quot; and &quot;do it yourself&quot; tractor plans out there. Some were published in the lik...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=From Berea Contacts=<br /> ==Bob==<br /> Open source is a new term but hardly a new concept. There are &quot;free&quot; and &quot;do it yourself&quot; tractor plans out there. Some were published in the likes of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. <br /> There&#039;s probably some overlap among these:<br /> http://www.vintageprojects.com/tractor-plans.html<br /> http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeTractorPlans.html<br /> http://www.longwood.edu/staff/riderkb/tractor/<br /> Looks like The Mother Earth News had plans in 1978 and 1982 (around the end of the heyday of the back to the land movement):<br /> http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1978-09-01/Bill-Whitakers-Homemade-Tractor.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98<br /> http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/do-it-yourself-mini-tractor-zmaz82jazgoe.aspx#axzz2P7a06i98<br /> There are plenty on youtube, start with:<br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKwmwnCcvM<br /> And, of course, all patents effectively become open source when they expire. And as Scott points out sometimes de facto open source sooner.<br /> ==Scott Justice==<br /> I just saw this two days ago in CAMARTECH Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and Rural Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.<br /> Idea is great but cost is way too high-10000+ USD. Engine transmission differential all from UK. Also see<br /> http://fwsteam.blogspot.com/2010/08/tractor-for-africa.html<br /> <br /> <br /> =Liks=<br /> *See also [[Tinkabi Tractor]]</div>

Marcin