For sale, heavily modified John DeereX740 lawn tractor, capable of
speeds up to 40mph, one very careful owner (any resemblance to The
Stig is entirely coincidental), used once, just 1.2 hours on the
clock… open to offers!
Star of the show at this year's
St Patrick's Day parade in Killarney was undoubtedly this one-off
conversion, the brainchild of Padraig Weldon from John Deere's
southern Irish dealer Seamus Weldon Groundcare Machinery.
"We
were trying to think of something a bit quirky to promote the
dealership and catch the public's imagination during the parade, and
this is what we came up with," says Padraig.
"It was
quite a quick job in the end - we removed the wheels from one of our
demonstration machines, built a new sub-frame, put some flotation
tyres from a 3520 compact tractor on the back, and dropped the front
axle onto the frame, complete with power steering, plus a new
exhaust and a rear spoiler with our website address, www.seamusweldon.com.
It was pretty noisy, the engine sounded more like a low flying
aircraft than a lawn tractor, but it had the desired effect - and
all the kids in the crowd recognised the driver!"
Look
out for the John Deere monster mower clips on YouTube - and turn up
the volume to get the full effect of the V8 style engine.
