[AT] English tractor (modern)

[David Myers]

--- charlie hill <chill8 at cox.net> wrote:

> 
> Maybe they have a more polished approach to the way
> my uncle had his Super M 
> Farmall rigged years ago.  He used it to pull logs
> out of the woods.  I 
> never understood exactly why he did it but he had a
> piece of angle iron 
> attached so that it stuck out to each side of the
> tricycle front end fork. 
> On the ends of the angle irons he attached cables
> that cris-crossed under 
> the belly of the tractor and were attached to the
> brakes somehow.   I don't 
> remember exactly how it was hooked up at the brakes
> but it was situated such 
> that when he turned the steering wheel past a
> certain spot the cable took up 
> on the brake linkage for the appropriate wheel.

Charlie, didn't early F-series Farmalls have a similar
arrangement under the radiator?  If they could rig up
a mechanical system, why couldn't they do the same
with hydraulics?  I'm planning to see Jim tonight and
while there I'll try to remember to ask him. 


=====
Dave Myers
Paw Paw, Michigan

Being crazy just helps me keep my sanity!

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