ZT301 and K700A Tractors
The Lego Car Blog Elves are basically 6 year old children, and as such they love tractors, so you can imagine the excitement today when one of them found two tractors in the same picture. Steve5010 is the builder behind them, and he’s even included some hay bales for the tractors to lug around. See more by clicking the link above.
The unsung hero of neat lawns everywhere, the butterfly mower keeps golf courses, playing fields and country house grounds well groomed. Seen here attached to a thumping great red tractor, this one is the work of 896gerard_ on MOCpages. Groundsmen of the world salute you Gerard!
The Lego Car Blog staff seem to be a bit portlier than they were before Christmas. Blame this on decadence of the TLCB Christmas party food and the fact that, well, someone had to eat the Smarties usually designated to the Elves whilst they were incarcerated.
With normal service resumed here at TLCB Towers it seems fitting that one of the creations uploaded over the Christmas break is a machine that enabled our mass sugar consumption, Eric Trax’ incredible Holmer Terra Dos T3 sugar beet harvester.
Powered by no less than eleven LEGO Power Functions motors and containing over 6,000 pieces, Eric’s harvester is a fiendishly complicated piece of kit. Watch the video below to get a flavour, and you can see all Eric’s photos on either Flickr or Brickshelf.
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Flickr’s de-marco makes his second appearance here at TLCB with his wonderfully simple Town scale farm truck. See it and his other vehicles on Flickr at the link above.
Silos are a common sight on any farm, used to store and dispense grain, animal feed, and er, …poo. One of the ‘net’s best Technic builders has taken the unusual step of building both a silo and the mechanism for erecting it from Lego Technic.
Sariel‘s Volvo FH12 truck and Silo placing trailer were discovered by one of our Elves on MOCpages, where Sariel details his build and includes a video demonstrating the placing mechanism in action. See more at the link above.
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Building with green LEGO can be tricky. Until relatively recently the colour was only found on plants, Octan stripes and Robin Hood’s tunic. However, green elements have become more commonplace in the last few years and thus several builders are venturing bravely into the limited green parts bin. One such builder is previous TLCB blogee Thietmaier who’s used the famous John Deere colour scheme to great effect. See more of his 6R Series tractor on Flickr here.
We don’t often get to publicise models like this one here at The Lego Car Blog. Mostly this is because the Elves are massively biased in favour of fast stuff with guns or Robots in Disguise, but it’s also because Lego builders rarely stray into vehicles of the work-a-day variety. TLCB veteran LegoMarat has done just this though, with his gorgeous Model Team ‘Old Red Tractor’. It features working steering and pendular front suspension, and you can see more of it by clicking here.
We seem to be having a bit of a Fiat day here at TLCB, and our second Fiat-related product is this rather brilliant Technic New Holland tractor by newcomer Flidsager.
New Holland were founded way back in 1895 in America by the extravagantly-named Abram Zimmerman, who started engineering engines and assorted farming machinery for the farmers in his local community. Success brought both expansion and a buyer, and in 1947 the company was bought by Sperry Rand where it continued to prosper. Further acquisitions by Ford, and then by the Fiat Group followed to bring the business to where it is today, offering the widest range of agricultural products in the world.
The T8.420 tractor shown here is built in the US and is powered by a 420bhp straight-six diesel engine. Flidsager’s Technic version features this engine too, alongside pneumatics powered by LEGO’s Power Function motors, remote controlled all-wheel-drive and steering, a working power-take-off, and a pendular suspended front axel.
You can see all the photos of Flidsager’s incredible Technic New Holland T8.420 on Brickshelf via the link above, and you can join the discussion at the Eurobricks Technic forum here.
Following the huge Technic New Holland T8.420 published here last month, here’s one from the other end of the Lego size chart. This Town scale New Holland tracked combine harvester was suggested to us by a reader. It’s been built by Brickshelf’s keko007 and you can see more at the link.
This is one of the slowest and wobbliest vehicles to appear here at TLCB. But it’s also one of the most charming. Joe Perez aka MortalSwordsman’s classic tractor comes from an era when farming was more dangerous than Grand Prix racing. Three wheels and no roll-over protection meant you had to be pretty brave to attempt turning one of these round at the end of a sloping field. You can see more of more of Joe’s ’50s tractor on both MOCpages and Flickr.
This neat Technic/System tractor was discovered on Flickr. Bobofrutx is the builder, and you can see more at his photostream by clicking here.
This Claas Jaguar looks pretty dangerous up front – it’d be the perfect vehicle for a zombie apocalypse! Just us? OK.
You can see more of the Claas at Eric Trax‘s Flickr photostream, whilst we imagine mowing down the undead hordes…
Proof that you’d don’t need a million parts to build something great has never been so concrete. This marvellous miniature tractor by hajdekr was discovered on Flickr – click the link to see how it’s been done!
This strange looking contraption is a Komatsu 895 harvester, and it’s been built (beautifully we might add) by newcomer LegoMathijs. His recreation of the giant Japanese forwarder features a detailed telescopic boom, cabin and engine, and working suspension with central pivot. There’s more to see on Flickr and at the Eurobricks discussion forum – click the links to swing your axe.
If you have children around or – like us – messy mythical creatures, then we’ve got just the Lego creation for you! This Hovertrack Luctor 544 tractor is a brilliant model in its own right – with a working six-cylinder piston engine, remotely controlled all-wheel-drive, gearbox and steering, trailer hitch and LED lights – but what it’s towing is even more impressive…
That big red box is apparently a Schuitemaker Rapide 8400 RS forage wagon (no, us neither) which is in essence a giant carpet cleaner. It’s used for collecting mown grass via a huge spiky rotating thresher type thingumy, which is then stored for dispatching elsewhere. It’s an impressive piece of kit, and previous bloggee 896gerard has constructed a Technic version that really, truly, and brilliantly works. It might be made from Danish plastic but this model can clean TLCB office better than our vacuum cleaner.
You can the full gallery of images via Brickshelf here, but to really appreciate how good this model is you’ve got to see it in action – click this link to visit 896gerard’s MOCpages account for the full details and a video of some incredible Lego engineering…
The Lego Car Blog Elves live on a simple diet of occasional meals, even more occasional Smarties, and regular extreme Elf-on-Elf violence. Today’s lucky Elf scored a hat-trick, being rewarded – as all successful Elves are – with a meal token, and also with a bonus green Smartie. High on sugar the aforementioned Elf then completed its hat-trick by undertaking what can best be described as a rampage at the controls of its find.
The find in question is this remarkable remote control John Deere 900 Series feller-buncher built by MOCpages’ Desert752 Kirill, and it’s an incredible bit of kit. Power Functions operated skid-steering and drive give Desert’s tracked feller-buncher surprising agility, meaning many Elves were out-manouvered in the hallways of TLCB Towers and squashed as they fled.
Smarter Elves, learning from previous experience, clambered off the floor to areas of expected safety, but sadly for them the John Deere’s linear actuated felling arm – complete with grab and micro-motor powered circular saw – meant that there really was nowhere to hide.
With no more colleagues to torment the jubilant Elf driver abandoned its motorised weapon and escaped cackling into the night. One suspects its colleagues won’t be forthcoming in welcoming it back upon its next return to TLCB Towers…
Anyway, whilst we await the inevitable Elf fight you can check out what makes Desert752 Kirill’s John Deere 900 such a formidable machine – click the link above for all the details of the build on MOCpages, and watch the video below to see the feller-buncher in action.
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Back in the 1950s not everything with a Porsche badge on it was a sports car. This is a Porsche Super Diesel tractor, powered by a three cylinder diesel engine. Nik J Dort is the builder behind this charming mini-figure scale replica and you can see more via the link above.
This neat Lego Ursus tractor (a Polish-built Massey Ferguson) comes from previous bloggee Damien Z. aka Thietmaier. It’s both beautifully constructed and photographed, and you can see all the images on Flickr here.
Not having heard the word ‘Schlüter’ before we thought it was most likely to be a promiscuous spring break German college girl, but it turns out that Schlüter was actually a Bavarian manufacturer of high-powered tractors, founded way back in 1898. The brand survived right up until the reunification of Germany, but sadly went bankrupt in 1993, ending almost 100 years of tractor production.
This lovely Model Team replica of Schlüter’s classic 1500 TVL tractor has been built by previous bloggee Bobofrutx. It features a range of working functions which can be seen in more detail on Flickr – click this link to make the jump.
