I started to construct the front mount for the floating mechanism:

And also did some planning how to finalize the tie-rod wheel side installation.

Now the tie-rod is in its place:

Tomorrow I can create the front floating mechanism mount.

I started preparing the tie-rod mounts:

Only some minor tweaking with tie-rod mounts and I can weld them to their place. It will be a very tight fit since the diff need to be able to be taken out, but it will fit there.

Once the tie-rod is in it’s place I can make the final piece to the front axle before moving to the tractor frame itself. Front axle work will continue after the first pieces of the frame has been made.

This is how it looks currently:

I almost might call this as a piece of art, but it’s not even ready yet. 😉

But the back side of the front axle is now ready and next task will be to create the front mount for the floating mechanism. This front mount needs to be boltable or otherwise it would not be possible to take the diff out if/when it needs maintenance.

I probably also weld the mounts for the tie-rod before moving on to build the actual frame for the tractor. After the frame front section has been built I will add couple of stiffeners to the wheel mounts. I have already a plan for the stiffeners, but I don’t want to add them now to make sure there will be enough clearance for the movement of the front axle.

Who knows, maybe next week the front axle is ready enough to start building the actual frame:

Only minor progress, since I was checking my plans once again to be 100% sure this should work:

This is what I managed to build today:

It will be the floating mechanism front mount, or at least one part of that.

Today I spent couple of hours at garage and managed to finish couple of welds. Not that much visible progress, but these things needed to be done:

Some progress with the rear floating mechanism mount:

And from another angle:

This is a quite puzzle to build, but still so far so good and no showstoppers found.