[AT] Now: PTO to Trailer

[charlie hill]

I suspect it would be very easy to jack knife a rig like that if you made 
any sudden or extreme turns.  If it had some mechanism to limit the swing of 
the trailer tongue it would help.  I wouldn't be afraid to try it but it 
would need a driver with a steady hand and a cool head.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Now: PTO to Trailer


> Paul,
> He would have had to go above idle to even gain any speed over the
> original 4-5 mph of the tractor.  It all depends, of course, on the gear
> ratio to the ground.  If you used a modern, (60's,70's)pickup based
> trailer and its original rear gears, how fast would it go turning the
> drive shaft at 500rpm?  Around 10 mph, I think.  I find it hard to
> believe that 30's engineering would get anything going much faster.  It
> would, however, seem like "going like the wind" compared to the road
> gears of any tractors at the time.  I see no danger at all.  Sounds
> practical and interesting.  It would also not be very tough to shift the
> pto in or out on the go.  I don't think a trailer would have much
> flywheel effect.  It wouldn't be much different than shifting a Behlen
> road gear on an F-20.
>
> Ron Cook
>
> Paul Waugh wrote:
>> Hi
>> As I said earlier, I had a great uncle that drove an F?? back from 
>> Wisconsin
>> during the 30's using this method .. I am sure he would have to wait 
>> until
>> some good 'sand' roads before going much above an idle ...I had heard him
>> tell about it when I was a teenager, by the time I was really interested, 
>> he
>> had passed, so the particular are lost to me. ... better have that front 
>> end
>> aligned haha
>>
>> Paul Waugh
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tim Bivens" <bivenshill at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:59 AM
>> Subject: [AT] Was: Croatian heritage? Now: PTO to Trailer
>>
>>
>>> Am I the only one that thinks this might be extremely
>>> dangerous? As far as releasing the PTO on an M all you
>>> would need to do is push in on the clutch, But this
>>> still seems dangerous to me. Has anyone on the list
>>> actually tried this?
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> --- oldiron62 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dean If you can rig a pto shaft to an old pickup
>>>> trailer.
>>>> You should be able to get 40 mph or better.
>>>> They are some mennonites amish around here that have
>>>> done the same
>>>> . I think it would need live PTO, I can see trying
>>>> to get the M pto in gear
>>>> or out on the fly :-)
>>>> Hope yall have a Happy New Years
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> AT mailing list
>>>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> AT mailing list
>>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> AT mailing list
>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 1/2/2008 
> 11:29 AM
>
>