[AT] Good tractor day

[Almost-Running Deere]

Sorry, Just what I've seen.  I think the chain was to keep from tearing the 
crap out of the tractor.  From what I have been told a non-frame mount 
backhoe is aa a repair waiting to happen

Dana
SE PA

>From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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>Subject: Re: [AT] Good tractor day
>Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:49:08 -0500
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>Using a chain for a top link is OK for brush mowers, but you need something 
>pretty rigid for almost anything else, especially a backhoe. When I sold 
>Woods equipment, the three point backhoes required a steel bracket 
>arrangement that bolted to the final drive housing to attach the top of the 
>backhoe. Anything less would tear up the top link attachment point, 
>especially if the tractor had a draft sensing mechanism that worked off the 
>top link (like Ford, etc., not IH).
>
>Mike
>
>Almost-Running Deere wrote:
>>I have seen chains as the top lik on these units before
>>
>>>From: Wayne Snelling <wsnelling at southplainscollege.edu>
>>>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>Subject: Re: [AT] Good tractor day
>>>Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:16:47 -0600
>>>
>>>Charlie: There are different lengths of the upper arm, i.e.; top link. 
>>>Could you not get a longer top link? Or make a top link?
>>>
>>>Wayne
>
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