[AT] Spam> Now AC traction booster

[charlie hill]

Yes David I know that sound well.  It's a shame they won't let you hook up 
to a pulling sled with traction booster or other draft control systems.  It 
would be interesting to see.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:26 AM
Subject: [AT] Spam> Now AC traction booster


> Charlie,
> I never experienced the "walking" (maybe that came with newer models or
> the 3 point link set up - my experience was with the snap coupler)  but
> I didn't even have to watch the tractor booster gauge to know when it
> activated - when the lift arms on the D-14 were activated you got a
> specific sound so you could follow the action of the traction booster by
> the sound from the lift.  It has always amazed me how the AC engineers
> managed to reduce the weight of the D series tractors as compared to
> similar models from other brands and still keep a similar performance in
> the field.
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
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