[AT] Vertigo

[Dick Day]

I always love it when Mike Sloan responds to my questions, he's like a very 
friendly walking encyclopedia :)

I will Google and see what I find. The New Holland folks here were not very 
receptive to the idea of anything not NH supplied. Maybe now that it's out 
of warranty, that would not be the case.

Once again, Mike, thanks.

Dick


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From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:42 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Vertigo

I once turned the blade on my Ford 860 around backwards and plowed my
two mile lane that way. It worked fine, but I had a stiff neck for a
week afterwards. Never again.

When I was selling New Holland tractors for a living back in 2003, all
of the compact diesels had mid PTO's (for powering rotary mower decks).
As I recall (which gets harder to do every day), those PTO's were
non-standard speed and rotation, which would make them useless for
running a common three point blower.

On the other hand, when I did a Google search for: front mounted three
point hitch and got a LOT of hits. So mounting the blower might not be a
big deal. The problem is getting the 540 PTO forward and running in the
right direction. One obvious choice is to use a hydraulic motor running
from a PTO driven pump. That might not be cheap, but it solves a lot of
problems, including direction, speed control, mounting/dismounting, and
ability to remotely swing the chute. The other choice, as someone
suggested, is to get some clever mechanical types to rig up an
underslung shaft running from the PTO to the front. We also sold a line
of front mounted snow blowers that ran off the PTO that way.

Again, let Google be your friend and look for: front mounted tractor
snow blower. This is one example of what popped up when I did that:
<http://www.lorenzmfg.com/front_mount_kits.htm>

Mike

Dick Day wrote:
> This is related to tractors since it only bother me when I'm backing up in
> my tractor :)
>
> I have vertigo and it only bothers me when I do more than just a few 
> minutes
> of backing up.  Moving/clearing snow is normally when this bothers me 
> most.
> More than 10 minutes of this and I am so nauseated I can hardly stand. The
> New Holland I bought in 2004 does not have mid-mount PTO so putting a snow
> blower on the front is not an option.  Unless I trade this one in for one
> with that option, I don't ever see me buying a rear-mount PTO-drive snow
> blower (this year we could sure have used one).
>
> My question is, does anyone else on the list have vertigo and if so, how 
> do
> you treat it when there's work to be done?   I am to the point that I can 
> no
> longer take Dramamine due to a reaction I have to it.
>
> Any home remedies you can suggest?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dick Day
>
>
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