Vintage set of the week: Tractor
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 813 Tractor, released during 1974. It's one of 6 Universal Building Set sets produced that year. It contains 100 pieces.
It's owned by 144 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Excavate by digging? Nah, I'll just use this big magnet and yoink the ore right out of the ground.
It took me a while to figure out which one of those is a tractor, and I'm still not certain I'm right...
Tractor? i see two other models, both of which are NOT tractors!
Look at that cute little brick built ‘tractor’ operator!!!
I haven’t decided if I should tell Jerry my tractor story or not.
The guy driving those machines is a real blockhead.
Ooh, look, it's a front-end shielder. It's a defunct piece of construction equipment whose only purpose was to protect the driver from stray bullets. Unfortunately, it also prevents the driver from seeing what the heck they're driving towards, which far outweighs the one-in-a-million chance that someone will end up shooting at them, from the correct direction. Typically, they tend to get shot in the back by pissed-off coworkers whose legs have just been mangled by those knobby treads.
By the way, those old hinge pieces, you can push that red core out of them (careful, its a soft plastic that's easily dented. I recommend using minifig necks) and its basically a long stud. Its insanely useful but also has a high risk of getting stuck in things, so use it carefully.
@magmafrost said:
"By the way, those old hinge pieces, you can push that red core out of them (careful, its a soft plastic that's easily dented. I recommend using minifig necks) and its basically a long stud. Its insanely useful but also has a high risk of getting stuck in things, so use it carefully."
I've had a few builds where that might have come in handy. On my Pizza Planet trucks (TS1, TS2, and Cars trilogy), I just ended up using 2L axles, since the most critical thing was just holding parts from shifting out of alignment. On my poodle skirt girls, I used cut sections of flex tube, inserted into cut sections of a really thick black hose that happens to be about stud-diameter, and then I needed Paradisa torsos so this turducken of a hose could fit up the middle (modern X-torsos are 100% incompatible with this technique, short of at least carving out the very bottom of the X so there's room for the stud of a 3x3 radar dish/poodle skirt). I'm not entirely sure these would do the job, but it might be worth checking out someday.
All will come to dread the robot brachiosaurus!
Best Minecraft Set Ever!
Technic before technic existed. I recall those milky white axles being slightly thicker than Technic axles but otherwise they are compatible. Interesting to see the original gears were already being used to hold threads.
Speaking of, those threads are interesting because they have studs on them. They're 1x2 per link and they can be insanely useful!
And for those who consider technic to be too far from system for some reason... the actual technic theme predated the modern minifigure.
Oh look, alternate models!
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"i can make it go faster."
No catapults, trebuchets, or cannons allowed!
Lovely little set! And indeed, those track pieces with studs in them are great!
Those treads look deadly--I kind of want some!