[AT] Vertigo

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

http://www.lorenzmfg.com/front_mount_kits.htm

Try this

Mike Sloane wrote:
> 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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