[AT] Vertigo

[Mike Sloane]

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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