[AT] Pulling a sheepsfoot with a Ford 8n

[charlie hill]

Years ago I worked in the summer for a construction company.  I spent about 
3 days in a parking lot at a new school pulling a wheeled roller (big box 
with about  20 wobbly rubber tires under it) with a 9N or something similar 
to a 9N.   I can't remember for sure what model it was but it was a small 2 
row Ford farm tractor and it was too old to be a 3000 or anything like that. 
It pulled that roller just fine but this was in a parking lot that had 
already been compacted and I was just proof rolling it, trying to make the 
soft spots pump.  Also it was on flat land.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Pulling a sheepsfoot with a Ford 8n


>I would suggest that the biggest problem you might find with pulling a 
>sheep's foot with a rubber tired tractor is traction and rutting if the 
>soil is at all moist.  I can remember the first four feet of dam 
>constructed on our farm back in 1967 was quite moist and a large sheep's 
>foot was easily pulled by a TD-18B.  The problem started when a front idler 
>went and there was no time to fix it.  We had two TD-15s working to bring 
>the material to the top of the dam.  The dam was already up at least 3 feet 
>and a 4 WD loader was quickly rented to replace the dozer.  The top of the 
>dam soon got very rutted as the loader didn't have the guts to grade as it 
>pulled the roller.  I can't picture the roller a 9n could handle, but it 
>would have to be tiny compared to what is normally used to get specified 
>compaction.
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY
> (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> Kubota F-2400
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> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Pulling a sheepsfoot with a Ford 8n
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>>
>> In a message dated 2/10/2005 12:38:49 PM Central Standard Time,
>> csaunders at bluevalleyk12.org writes:
>>
>> This  roller, which I am making myself
>> out of concrete (go ahead, laugh, get it  out of your system), is much
>> smaller than anything I've found  commercially
>>
>>
>> Chuck:
>> I ain't laughing.  I have one made from 2 barrels (19 in dia) and it  has 
>> 3/8
>> steel plates sticking out of the side about 3 inches and is full on
>> concrete.  I have seen them made from railroad spikes too.  railroad 
>> spikes work
>> great as they have a profile similar to a sheep's foot.  I  would suggest 
>> you only
>> work in 3 to 4 inch lifts, or a lift only 1 inch in depth  deeper than 
>> the
>> distance from the end of your sheepfoot to the drum.  I  have been in the 
>> dam
>> building business for the last 27 years if I can give any  free advice, 
>> feel
>> free to ask.   Remember free advice is worth what  you pay for it!!
>> Cecil in OKla
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