[AT] Landini 3 point hitch

[Stephen Offiler]

Minding your significant digits, that's actually 61cm  ;-)

SO

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 11:53 PM Phil Kelley <philkelley at windstream.net>
wrote:

> 24" = 60.96 cm. 😀
>
> Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
>
>
> ---- James Peck wrote ----
>
> James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com):  Some of those Italian
> plows seem to be 24 inch depth. I wonder what the metric depth is.
>
> The Mussolini administration put money into developing fuel injection to
> get away from those hot bulb tractors. S.P.I.C.A. also made mechanical fuel
> injection for sports cars. We know that Massey Ferguson bought Perkins and
> Landini in the late fifties and started using Perkins in them. Was Landini
> still making hot bulb engines up to that point?  But, the you tube shows 3
> point hitches and hydraulic pumps driven from the front of hot bulb
> engines. Did Landini copy the Ferguson System with approval?  Some of the
> tractors are rearing back like there is no automatic draft control.
>
>
> https://www.landini.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Flipbook-Serie-2_ING_2017.pdf
>
>
> Francis Robinson aka "farmer" Central Indiana USA AT List Member (
> robinson46176 at gmail.com); <sni> Back to the plowing: OMG what a mess to
> work down enough to plant... Do their fields really look that bad on real
> farms
> As I watch U-tube videos of plowing in the UK I keep wondering, don't
> their fields ever dry down to where they plow well? They do a nice job
> there and many take it very serious but their fields all seem to plow up
> like a field I would wait another 3 days on...
> I got a real shock one day when I just searched for "how to plow a field"
> just out of curiosity as to what would come up. Once again "OMG"! I never
> saw so many supposed tutorials where the creator absolutely didn't have
> even a vague idea about what they were doing... One guy was even driving
> with the wrong wheel in the furrow... Throwing everything all toward the
> unplowed land each pass. Did a whole big garden that way.
> I have the little plowing book that came with the 9N Ford/Ferguson DAD
> bought new. It is about as good on layouts as anything I have seen. I
> should scan it and post it somewhere. Its biggest limitation is that it is
> for mounted plows. and some things are a little different.
> I do have a copy of a book that was issued for members of the old 4-H
> Tractor Maintenance project that was good on pull type plows. Maybe I could
> post some of that as well.
> The results of a well-adjusted plow behind a tractor that is well sat up
> for that plow can be very pretty, especially to some of us old guys.  😀  I
> didn't see a lot of good results in those how-to videos but there were
> several that were very good. If you don't search for "how-to" you get
> better videos.
>
> James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com);  I can understand the wild
> and wonderful Landini plowing. Looks like Landini was using 3 point hitch
> on hot bulb tractors in the fifties.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4asNIt3diyc
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