[AT] Small Farm Tractors vs Garden Tractors

Robert Brooks rbrooks at hvc.rr.com
Mon Mar 8 14:40:22 PST 2004


Tim;

Your not.

Gearing and mass have a lot to do with it too.

The look on Dan's face was priceless.

I even behaved myself and didn't say anything about a 50 year old "Piece of 
Junk" out pulling his new tractor.


Bob
Elmo 1948 Cub
rbrooks at hvc.rr.com
Rock Tavern, NY



At 01:52 PM 3/8/04 -0800, you wrote:
>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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