[AJD] Two Cylinder JD's and Power Driven Equipment

[Ronald L. Cook]

We had to put the two-cylinder tractors on the ensilage cutter and a 4 
cylinder tractor on the blower.  JD 60 and 70 would throw the belt and 
the old DC Case would just keep blowing the ensilage over the top. 
Worked doubly good.  The Case ran the blower fine and you didn't have to 
drive the darned thing.
The JD 70 worked fine on a pto driven blower.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Duane Ledford wrote:
> Well, I've ran across several guys at shows that would rather let their display set 
> than have a two cylinder tractor run them. Said they didn't want their machine torn 
> up.  Also was looking through some old Two Cylinder magazines and found a write-in 
> letter that was talking about not putting two cylinder tractors on equipment.  They 
> sited a silage blower that kept ruining belts. They put a four cylinder tractor on 
> the blower and no more trouble.  I suppose that it could be like previously posted, 
> that more torque is exherted by the two cylinders, especilly on the PTO. I still 
> lean toward this being propaganda. Just wondered if anyone had any real world or 
> scientific data.
>