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Favorite Comment: Fixer Nate says, “Note to self: I could have the PTO running the ice cream machine, and the axle turning the barbeque, lets see, if we had a PAN over the exhaust, we could could the casserole too! Yessireee!”
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If that’s not somewhere in South West Louisiana I will be very suprised.
There’s always a morning after. Anyone have an Alka-seltzer?
Because assembling an automatic roaster is MUCH easier than cutting and slincing all that meat.
No need for cutting or slicing. When the meat is well cooked, just pull the throttle, shift to 4th gear and dump the clutch. No fireworks needed for this year’s party.
Note to self:
I could have the PTO running the ice cream machine, and the axle turning the barbeque, lets see, if we had a PAN over the exhaust, we could could the casserole too! Yessireee!
Nate
Don’t forget the wire coat hangers attached to the exhaust manifold to hold the pots for steamed vegatables.
Kludge indeed. Every sane person would have used the power take-off.
The PTO runs at 540 RPM, the wheels in granny low would be at a much slower rotation, so this is a better solution for a slow turning shaft. Looks a little weird, but it would work well. farmers have used the drive axle for power take off ever since there were tractors.
Before the PTO, older tractors had the large wheel on the side, that was used to run implements via a big thick belt — that might have worked better here. Though I’m not sure how many RPM they run at…
PTO speed is a direct function of engine RPM. Every tractor tach has a marker for the PTO 540 rpm point — because PTO-driven implements are standardized to 540 rpm. Larger tractor PTOs now run at 1000.
Nevertheless, on tractor that age you can probably get the rear wheel down to 5 rpm on low idle and lowest gear. To get the PTO to run at 50 rpm you’d have to run the motor at about 250 rpm, which *might* be possible, but has a high likelihood of stalling out. The 25 rpm engine speed necessary for 5 rpm at the PTO is quite simply impossible.
“The Flintstones” would have killed for that facility.
I guess it worked since the carcass looks picked clean already.
mmm, carcass.
Yeah, Daniel. Why did the photographer wait until the meat was all gone, and the fire completely burned out?
Because before that he was too busy making sure he got his share of meat. Gotta prioritize, man.
wow i could use one of them
I love the smell of diesel in the morning.
I guess the PTO was broken.
The secret to a great pit-roast is that hint of tractor diesel exhaust flavor.. hmm hmm good!
Hmmm. Modify the setup to run on biogas from burning hickory and other woods used for smoking and something could be rigged up to utilise the smoke not captured by the intake. Win for smoked flavour, and win for not using diesel.
Sorry, I’m down to my last bioga.
I have to admit, this kludge is actually pretty awesome. And yes, the cameraman should have taken a “before” photo or two.
I would like to see the “in between” photo when some guy (under the influence) tried to show off using the tractor, giving full throttle.
Unfortunately he forgot about the setup so the perfectly tender pork is not located 2 miles west of the photo!
Whoever gets to it first, claims it!
I’m betting the “whoever gets to it first” was one of the dogs from under the porch
awsome whos idea?
Yep this is awesome. Tractor is a Massey Ferguson 35 made in the sixties, neat thing about it was that you could set the parking brake ( foot operated) to brake the LHS wheel only. That is why the are using the drive off the RHS. Also the 35 had a 540 rpm PTO (at rated eng speed of 2100 rpm) so even at tick over (engine rpm 750) the pto still does around 180 rpm – way too fast.
WIN for the farm tech detail. My dad would be envious if only he knew. (I wonder if I could rig up his mid-80s Allis-Chalmers to do something cool?)
Close, but no cigar
It’s an IMT 539 tractor, made under a Ferguson license in Yugoslavia, now Serbia, which I guess is a dead giveaway as to where the kludge was photographed – sorry Louisiana 
. Alas, not quite ’60s either, they’re still being produced around here.
http://www.motofrenk.si/klub/TOMO/IMT539.jpg
PS And yes, I’m the original kludge submitter
MMMMMMMM I wish I could have shared some of that beef. Not much left. That is an ingenious way to turn that beast for 24 hours while it roasts. They say that necessity is the mother of invention.
bill allways thinks big and just loves being too lazy to do all the work
the only downside of this roast is the cost of fuel
Fuel… Should of used a lil 3 banger Charade, would have been about to cook for months…
That’s one anorexic ox. I figured you’d get more meat of off something that size.
Generally yes, but the roaster was assembled many BBQs ago. Ever since, cattle has been used to do the tractor old functions.
In an unrelated event average cattle weight has been reducing since then. THe ox in the picture represent one of those cases.
If your gonna go all out for a BBQ, go whole hog!
One spot of land… check, one dead cow… check, one raging fire… check, one telephone pole… check, and one tractor… check. And all it took to complete this list was a hillbilly and two bottles of whiskey.
That’s a pretty epic kludge.I would have just used a lawnmower engine,but some people I guess want their beef a little more …ugh…centrifugal?
Probably the best I’ve seen on here….still cant stop laughing!
From raw to well done in 10 minutes
The site for the next Celebrity Roast featuring Larry the Cable Guy.
They ain’t using the tractor’s power output, an they’re wasting another wheel and the engine’s heat as well. So inefficient!
Next challenge: Shishkabob.
Shishkabobcat
For lighter meat, set rpms to 1500 and cook for 2 hours, for darker meat set rpms at 500 and cook for 3 hours, be sure to have plenty of gasoline when using the ginormous tractor rotisserie, Habla espanol, read above
tractors use diesel not gas
I don’t know if all that’s true, I have a vintage Case that is gasoline powered. It is uncommon, but not unheard of.
Some tractors, but not many, are gas powered. My neighbor had a gas powered one…. until it blew up in his face and put him in the hospital with burns over most of his body.
If enough drunked up partiers grabbed onto the pipe being used as a skewer at once, they could probably flip the tractor over, particularly if Elmer throws it into reverse occasionally just to keep the steer from getting dizzy.
clearly A series of unfortunate events.
Flat tire = cant drive tractor to buy food = must eat ox.
Only shallow folded metal table = must cut down power pole to suspend carcass, thus ending indoor heating and cooking = tents + fire… attaching skewer to wheel hub was the only thing that went right this weekend.
IMT Rakovica rules!!!
This was actually taken in Serbia. The tractor is really a Massey Ferguson license manufactured by IMT (Industrija Masina i Traktora) in the former Yugoslavia.
(I know the submitter)
One weekend a month, two weeks a year — YOUare needed for the Army National Guard.
you know your a redneck when……
Its pictured in Serbia, tractor is famous IMT539
well thats use of a massy 35 i have never seen b4