So you have an old Fordson Major tractor that you have been dying to give that low slung, hot rod look to? Boy have we got a revelation for you! Thanks to Nordic BangShift correspondent Arild Guldbrandsen, we have a video that shows exactly how to achieve the look with some junkyard parts and some really awesome Rube Goldberg mechanical thinking. All you need to do is to complete this simply brilliant “axle over” conversion and you too can have the chain driven classic tractor of your dreams! Why would you want to do this? Probably because you are super cool or the fact that you have a really long winter to dream up ideas and this seemed like a good one after a bunch of beers. So how does it work?

All you need to do is to literally stack another huge tractor axle on top of the existing one on the machine already. DO NOT REMOVE the original axle, it is a critical piece in the conversion. Now, pull the center section with all the pesky gears and crap out of the upper axle and mount the axle tubes to the lower axle housing somehow. Now, mount a huge gear on the inside end of one original axle shaft and a small sprocket on your newly mounted axle shaft. Make some sort of retainer so the other axle won’t slide out and then have some fun. Ok, there are more steps than that but this whole rig is fascinating in a weird way. From the fact that there are exposed moving parts to the additional detail that the cover was not placed back on the bottom axle so the thing is basically a rolling punch bowl of gear oil that probably smells like a trash dump fire, this whole thing is flipping sweet in a weirdo, tractory sort of way.

Hey, the world of BangShift takes all types and we’d buy the dude who thought this idea up and actually executed it several beers at the local pub for his handiwork. Cool or dumb…what do you think?