[AT] English tractor (modern)

[charlie hill]

Dave,  I just don't know much about F series Farmalls.  There weren't many 
of them around here.  We were still using mules in those days.    I did see 
a rather slick rig one time involving a tractor trailer and some cables. 
They were apparently building a BIG bridge somewhere.  A truck came through 
town hauling a LONG concrete beam.  It must have been 80 feet or so.  The 
front of the beam was sitting on a bracket attached to the trucks 5th wheel.
The rear of the beam was on a dual axle dolly.  There was no trailer chassis 
or frame.  The rear dolly had a 5th wheel of sorts of it's own.  There was a 
set of criss crossed cables from the dolly in the rear to the rear of the 
tractor.   When I saw the truck it was making a hard left turn off the end 
of the old US 17 bridge in New Bern, NC.  The rear swung out like the rear 
of a hook and ladder truck.  When the tractor straightened up after the turn 
the trailer squared back up behind it.  It was slick.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Myers" <walking_tractor at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] English tractor (modern)


>
> --- 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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