[AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

[charlie hill]

Correct Mike,  it wasn't just a tobacco farming procedure, it was just the 
way
it was done here in tobacco country.  Perhaps it was done that way 
everywhere
but I only know what I grew up doing.    There were a couple of times when I
was actually able to work my "land" into a circle and then just go round and 
round
but it takes a pretty big field and a lot of messing around early on to do 
that.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Sloane
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:29 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

Your story is pretty much what I have heard from others and reading
various books on the subject. It isn't just a tobacco crop procedure.
And it is one of the things that drove owners of Ford 9N tractors crazy
- Ford put the left brake pedal on the same side as the clutch. My 2N
has a hand lever on the left brake pedal, so the operator could operate
the left brake independently of the clutch operation. It took Ford 10
years to move the left brake pedal over to the same side as the right
brake pedal.
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/1946_ford_2n/2n_brake1.html>

To keep the thread on the subject, the nature of band brakes is that
they hardly work at all in reverse, while disk brakes work the same
going forward of back. Drum brakes (again, as in the Ford) work mostly
the same going forward or backward).

Mike

On 12/30/2012 6:02 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ron, I haven't followed this thread all the way through but around here 
> you
> could always tell a tractor that had
> been used to plow because the left hand brake was worn out.  Here's why. 
> We
> would lay out our "land"
> by starting in the middle of the field and plowing the first pass for 
> maybe
> 100 feet (depending on the size of the field).
> We would turn around and make the second pass going the other way throwing
> dirt on top of the first pass with the
> furrows on the outside.  We would repeat this until we had plowed roughly 
> a
> square, in this case 100' x 100'.   Then we would start
> plowing across the end, again with the furrow out, dirt thrown on the 
> plowed
> ground.  At the end of that pass we would make
> a 270 deg left hand turn, hard on the left brake, turning out away from 
> the
> plowed ground, around and back into the side furrow.
> Then we would go down that side and across the other end making the same 
> 270
> deg turn at each corner.  That would repeat
> until the field was finished.  The idea was to lay the "land" out to match
> the shape of the field.  In my example it would have
> needed to be a square field.  The result was that the tractor got run all
> day long, making hard left turns at each corner with the
> right brake never being used.   When the field was finished there would be 
> a
> furrow all the way around the outside of the field.
>
> Not sure if that is what is being discussed here but that is why plow
> tractors in NC tobacco country had worn out left brakes.
>
> Charlie
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