What Were They Doing With This?

[Cub-Bud]

Not quite sure what to think of this:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2593933837&category=50920

[Bigdog]

I can't figure it out but I sure hope someone knows.

[George Willer]

I had it all figured out until I saw the lifting eyes on the canopy. In any event, I'll bet the wheel weights are easily restored. Sheet metal and grille doesn't look bad either. I'd write that auxilary engine off.

[Marion(57 Loboy)]

I studied the pics for awhile and.......WOW!! What the.......???

There's definately a driveshaft there.....looks like whatever it was driving busted off at the front; doesn't look like a torch cut at all. That's a lifting lever on the right; cable went over the pulley to whatever was being lifted...cable is gone/broke too. The lift range is evident by the space in the driveshaft track up front. Looking at it through my 'backyard mechanic' eyes I'd say it's a set up for a snowblower up front that probably worked fantastic till that last iced in rock or whatever......
It's obvious the tractor was moved for the pics; note the flat spots on the front tires. Perhaps the rest of this "GIZMO" is still there somewhere.

[johnbron]

I would think the eyes on the canopy are there to lift it on & off the Cub. It has a big auger but I dont think it was for snow removal with that screen cage. My guess is that it was used for mixing feed. Maybe it was on a hog farm.

Can't imagine to guess what it was used for. But judging from the lean of the canopy I'll bet the guy that used to own it was a liberal

[Bigdog]

I'm curious about the guard rods by the right rear wheel. Makes me think it was used around some tall vegetation.

[Indiana Robinson]

Well, I played with these picture a bit with a graphics program to see better and have a few conclusions that are still guesswork...
1. I don't believe those are guard rods by the wheel. I believe they are just levers that have fallen down against the wheel. I believe there are two of them to allow for a longer travel like pull one part way then grab the next to go farther... ?
2. If you look at the crossbow shaped piece that would be roughly opposite the base of those levers, maybe a pivot point? I think that the crossbow piece is part of a chain or cable lift much like IHC used on some of their sickle bar mowers. The chain/cable then would have lifted by running to the pulley on top of that pipe with a pulley then down to the pipe frame below.
3. I don't believe that was a drive shaft to the front but just a frame for a an angled blade.
4. That is the same power unit I had on an old IHC hay baler.
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Guess... I think it was a ditch filling rig made by a ditching contractor to backfill trenched ditches. Probably an angled blade on the front to take off the top then a powered unit to push the rest of the dirt over to the ditch. Trying to straddle a ridge of dirt would be a possible reason to have rolled over and bent the canopy.
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That is my guess which I am positive is correct unless it is wrong...

[Cub-Bud]

I sent the seller a email asking if he had any idea what it might have been used for...I'll keep y'all posted.

[Jack Donovan]

My guess is that it's some sort of cotton picker, notting the area.

[Harold R]

My guess is that it's some sort of cotton picker, notting the area

I bought a tractor in Texas that had been moved down from Wisconsin, where it worked in an apple orchard. So, this monstrosity could be a transient. My 2 cents, maybe water well drilling or pecan orchard shaker?
HR

[Johnny Lake]

I just hope yall don't everyone from Texas does their Cubs this way.
Johnny

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

It's only about 500 miles away, I wonder if I could conn...er that is persuade Bud and Russ to take on another...NAW, not a chance!

[Bermuda Ken]

That must a be a "super ultra rare" twin engine cub prototype tractor. The canopy is from an A-C as it has the "lean" to it that you get from riding a WD or WC all day. Either way, the asking price needs the decimal point moved over a few digits to the left.

[farmer.boy]

$399 bucks. Lets pool our money and buy it. We can send it to Rudi and he can dissect it and put the pictures on the manual server.