[AT] more HP guaranteed!/now front end on the ground.

[David Bruce]

In hindsight I could have used that advice :)

David

NW NC


On 3/17/2017 1:57 PM, David Steinich wrote:
> My wife has fond memories of driving their D-14 while harvesting tobacco.
> She heard "pull the stick back Jo" (power director) when it was time to
> start or stop.
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 12:27 PM David Bruce <tractor57 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I learned to drive a tractor using an Allis D-14. When I switched to a
>> Ferguson type draft control system I had to learn a lot of different
>> things.
>>
>> A story on the D-14. The first tractor I ever drove was an Allis B
>> pulling a sled in the tobacco field. I was about 6 or 7 at the time. I
>> could not get a handle on the B's clutch so it was switched to be the
>> "to the barn" tractor while I drove the D-14 in the field. I could not
>> reach both the clutch and brakes at the same time so I had to depress
>> the clutch, shift to neutral and then hit the brake pedals.  That was a
>> bit of a problem as the tobacco field had rows running up and down a
>> significant hill. Later I would plow with the D-14 after school and into
>> the night in late winter and early spring. There I learned the
>> advantages of the traction booster system.
>>
>> David
>>
>> NW NC
>>
>>
>> On 3/17/2017 12:41 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> John, that was the beauty of the old Allis Chalmers "Traction Booster"
>>> system.  On the Snap Coupler tractors it worked from spring tension on
>>> the drawbar and on the 3pt hitch tractors it used a rock shaft that
>>> connected
>>> the front of the 3pt lift arms.  The system kept the lift system always
>>> tight against
>>> the load and immediately reacted to load changes.  When the pressure
>> went up
>>> in
>>> the system from load tension the lift would quickly raise the implement
>>> until the load
>>> decreased.  It was essentially a "draft system" but it worked by load not
>>> depth.  When they
>>> were right they were wonderful.
>>>
>>> Charlie
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