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

[David Steinich]

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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