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

[charlie hill]

Gene,  my guess is that the guys at the plow days don't have their
tires loaded with water or fluid and probably don't have wheel weights.
Not arguing your point at all but my experience with plow days is a bunch
of guys that would have been laughed at in the field in 1962.  Their plows
are generally not set up correctly and the tractors can't get any traction.
Even the ones that are properly ser up are running in a furrow cut by a 
different plow
that might not be properly set up.  If the furrow isn't cut straight walled 
and deep enough
the tractor won't track right.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:24 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

    The wheel in the furrow will always have the better traction. This will
try to turn the tractor away from the furrow side. Surface irregularities
such as corn stalks, wheat straw, snow, mud or ice will cause the land wheel
to spin and have less pulling power. Applying the brake to the land wheel
transfers the pulling power to the furrow wheel to keep the tractor moving.
Diff lock does the same thing as Ralph has suggested. Either method tends to
pull the tractor out of the furrow.

    Have watched some drivers at plow days who had to use so much brake to
keep from spinning that the left brake housing would be so hot they were
Smoking. Onr guy with his newly restored Farmall H completely burned the new
paint off the left brake.

                                Gene


>>
> I'm betting differential lock might have been invented for situations
> like this. Although even if it is locked up and both wheels turning, if
> the furrow wheel is on slippery soil it will not pull as hard as the
> land wheel. Therefore the tractor would still have a tendency to pull to
> the right.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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