[AT] Small Farm Tractors vs Garden Tractors

[Tim Bivens]

Bob,
 Correct me if I am wrong here but I bet that Wheel
Horse is rated by engine horsepower instead of drawbar
horsepower. Your Cub is rated at the drawbar. That
makes a whole lot of difference. The Wheel Horse
probably wouldn't even make 5 drawbar horsepower. I
have a John Deere mower that is rated at 17 horsepower
but that doesn't really mean much. It sure isn't going
to outpull my VAC Case at 14-15 rated drawbar
horsepower.

Tim Bivens
Glen Rose, Tex.

--- Robert Brooks <rbrooks at hvc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> About 7 years ago when I first brought home Elmo my
> 1948 Cub I had a 
> neighbor ask me to bring my truck over and pull his
> BIL out of a 
> ditch.  They have a long narrow gravel driveway,
> with ditches on either 
> side, and apparently he wasn't paying attention when
> off the edge of the 
> driveway and managed to both drivers side wheels of
> the pickup in the mud 
> up to the frame rails.
> 
> Well Joan had the Blazer so I offered to bring Elmo
> over and pull him 
> out.  His comment was no they had already tried to
> pull the truck out with 
> his new 20HP Wheel Horse and if that won't pull it
> out, it would be a waste 
> of time to try with an old 8HP tractor.
> 
> I convinced him that it was worth a try and that if
> Elmo couldn't pull him 
> out then I would run the truck over when Joan got
> home.
> 
> At the time Elmo had calcium in the Ag tires and
> weights on all 4 wheels.
> 
> I hitched the chain they had used with his tractor
> to the draw bar and 
> pulled the truck out in about 1 min.  I didn't even
> get the tires to spin.
> 
> Seems there is HP and then there is a tractors
> ability to do work.
> 
> What Dan didn't understand and should have is that
> my little 8hp Cub out 
> weighed his Wheel Horse by at least 1500 lbs and
> that the Cub was geared to 
> pull not mow lawns at 10MPH
> 
> So there really is a big difference between a farm
> and lawn and garden tractor.
> 
> Bob
> rbrooks at hvc.rr.com
> Elmo 1948 Cub
> Rock Tavern, NY
> 


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