[AT] Tractor safety

[deanvp at att.net]

Howard and Jim,

 

Many years ago right here on ATIS I published a link to the engineering study  that showed the roll over potential difference between NFE vs WFE.  As I recall it was a study accomplished in some other country other than the US. For some reason I want to say Australia but that may be a fig newton of my imagination. A few years ago this subject came up again here on ATIS and I tried to find the published information but didn’t have luck then.   Maybe someone who knows how to do a really good search on ATIS Archives can find my reference link.  I’m guessing it was well over 10 years ago maybe even 15 years ago.  The tests were very well documented and the Engineering Science was included showing how the COG changed between the two front ends, before and during a potential roll.  It was a very well done engineering piece of work.  I’ll do some web searching again and see if I can find the article.  

 

Dean VP

Snohomish, WA 98290

 

From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Jim Becker
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 10:10 PM
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I thought I was the only one that had that repeated argument with George.   My assertion was that any advantage a WFE might have was inconsequential.  By the time a WFE hit the stop, you were already near, if not past the tipping point.  None of us had any hard data to back up our opinions.

 

Jim Becker

 

From: Indiana Robinson 

Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2019 7:47 PM

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Hi Dean:

You or some other long time members here might recall (or maybe not)  :-)  me having a friendly disagreement years ago with my old friend George Willer with me trying to make the exact same point about not encouraging wide front operators to become over confident on hills.

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