[AT] Tractor Weight (now snowplows)

[Greg Whittaker]

We use our 180 MF with a blower and loader for snow removal.  It'll do good 
with no chains but with chains it's a whole different machine.  It's got 
18.4x30 on it.  I had a 77 Ford 3/4 ton one winter that had less than good 
tires on the back.  Grandpa had a set of chains that were the right size and 
we put them on.  The old girl was almost as good as a 4X4 then.

Greg Whittaker
Wolverine Mi.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Weight (now snowplows)


> Greg, I have rarely ever seen chains used on a tractor in this area. I can
> recall people talking about using them on cars and trucks way back maybe 
> in
> the 40s and 50s. I think there might even be some odds and ends of tire
> chains in the junk pile now . I can see where they might have been a big
> help in traction for the tractor. This 50 had the "big" tires, 18.4x34 
> with
> cast weights and fairly full of calcium chloride so it had decent traction
> in most conditions. Of course you can never have too much traction on ice
> and snow.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Whittaker <gwhittak at triton.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Weight (now snowplows)
>
>
>> Your Dad didn't use tire chains?
>>
>> Greg Whittaker
>> Wolverine Mi.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Weight (now snowplows)
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Cecil E Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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>> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:37 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Weight (now Ramble - LONG)
>> >
>> >
>> > It would be hard to hire someone these days to
>> >> sit there in the open and run a big slow Cat like he did. I guess in
>> >> those days we weren't used to having things easy and just did what we
>> >> had to do.
>> >>
>> >> Anhow, thanks for the stories. We all have them in us and it
>> >> would be nice to hear some from those who don't write much.
>> >>
>> > Cecil and all. I managed to find the old photos I was mentioning 
>> > showing
>> > the
>> > snowplow that my Dad used on his Cockshutt 50. They are now on my
> webpage
>> > for a while.  Keep in mind that these photos were taken by a kid   with
> a
>> > $2
>> > camera so they are not the greatest. Still you can see the basic design
> of
>> > the plow. Even the levelling crank on the front that was used to change
>> > the
>> > cutting angle of the plow. Hard snow required a little more "suction" 
>> > to
>> > keep the plow under the snow but you had to watch it out on 
>> > summerfallow
>> > fields as it could push up a bit of dirt sometimes too.
>> >
>> > Ralph in Sask.
>> > http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
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