[AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long

[charlie hill]

David,  one of my D-14's has a D-15 rearend with the factory 3pt and 
traction booster.  Some bushings need to be replaced in the rock shaft 
assembly that actuates the traction booster.  I'm hoping that one day I get 
around to getting all of that fixed so I can see how traction booster works 
with a 3 ph implement.

Most of our farm is sandy and some of it is extremely sandy.  Back in the 
day, I'd be plowing with the D-10 and hit a bad sandy spot.  The plow would 
try to sink, the traction booster would kick in  but it was so sandy that 
the tractor would begin to spin it's wheels.  Then it would do something 
I've never read about in the manuals.  I don't know if it was supposed to do 
it or not but the tractor would spin one wheel and stop the other and 
alternate back and forth very quickly.  It was as if you were stomping the 
brake pedals.  It would walk it's way right out of the soft stuff.  It was 
kind of hard to stay in the seat!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long


>I agree with Charlie the snap coupler/traction booster set up worked
> extremely well when properly set up.
> Most soil here is red clay but then you will run into veins of sandy
> soil and without the traction booster design the plow just sinks when
> you hit the sandy soil and hangs when you return to the clay.  With it
> you would plow right along.
> Hopefully someday I'll get the old D-14 back in working shape so it can
> pull the 3x14 plow I used as a youngster.
> worked very well and I loved the sound of that engine.
> David
> NW NC
>
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> Len,  I wish you had the chance to run a snap coupler w/traction booster 
>> on
>> a new and properly set up tractor.  It was, for it's day,  about as good 
>> as
>> you could ask for.   I used to love to sit there and watch the needle on 
>> the
>> traction booster guage as it constantly adjusted to the load.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think one of the most intersting plow adjusting is on the AC snap 
>>> coupler
>>> and traction boost system.  Add worn linkage parts and it approaches the
>>> impossible.
>>>
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