{"id":41631,"date":"2019-06-14T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=41631"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T19:26:08","slug":"custom-2wd-tractor-with-a-cummins-v12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=41631","title":{"rendered":"Custom 2WD Tractor with a Cummins V12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg and Glenn Honey are the founders of Honey Bee Manufacturing<\/a>, a company in Frontier, Saskatchewan, Canada that produces farm equipment. Before the brothers made a name for themselves building swathers<\/a>, they built their own 2WD tractor on their farm in 1979. They started with a custom chassis made from 2-inch plate steel . Each frame rail weighs 3,000 lbs. To power the tractor they installed a Cummins 28.0 L VTA-1710 V12 that makes 500 horsepower and a lot more torque. Power is sent the the large 37.5×33 Earthmover tires through an Eaton 13-speed transmission connected to a Clark 85000 series planetary axle. The 48,000 lb tractor racked up 6,000 hours working on the farm from 1979-1995. A similar tractor was built in 1980 with a Caterpillar inline-six and is still working on the farm. <\/p>\n