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Re: (ET) Powered cart
How about an alternative thought? If you get all that wood out of the
woods before the road gets rutted and snowy, you won't have to worry
about it.
I have a weight box for the rear of my tractor. it attaches the same way
that the mower tilt bar goes on front (2 ears) but instead is meant for
the rear. Ears on it will fit the front. Snowblower is too heavy, will
bog down your front wheels. Using a weight box in front it's variable
weight (more or less bricks in it). Adjust weight to suit road
conditions. Adjust loading of trailer to put less weight on your hitch.
And of course, use tire chains on the rear of the tractor. These field
motor double belt tractors in low low gear will pull a loaded pickup
truck on grass ! Or skid big rocks.
Dave
Weymouth MA
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:39:11 -0400 Jeff Tickner <jefft softlanding com>
writes:
> One of my planned uses for my E15 (if I ever finish it) is to use it
> to
> haul cordwood out my woods and I'm wondering how the traction will
> be. My
> only experience is pulling a 4x8 trailer full of cordwood on a
> rutted,
> snowy dirt road and when the trailer got hung up the front of the
> tractor
> would lift, I should have had the snowblower on there as a counter
> weight.
> But what about if it was muddy?
>
> Since it appears that a locking diff is not an option I had 2 ideas.
> I
> have several spare transaxles and a couple extra drive motors. the
> transaxles have the brakes still on them.
>
> Since I'll have an Alltrax with a dash pot, what about going with
> cutting
> brakes, that is a brake assembly on each axle, with a pedal on each
> side.
> That would give you the steering effect and you could also brake a
> wheel
> that has lost traction?
>
> The other idea is even more unlikely for me to ever do with my lack
> of
> time and mechanical skill, but... seems like it would solve both
> traction
> and the tractor nose coming up. What about a powered trailer? If I
> put a
> motor and transaxle under a trailer would I just fry my Alltrax if I
> tried
> to feed both motors from the one controller?
>
> The pushers I've seen in the past are just for pushing
> http://www.mrsharkey.com/pusher.htm
> http://www.jstraubel.com/EVpusher/EVpusher2.htm
> and don't seem to have an issue with a normal single point trailer
> ball
> hookup.
>
> Jeff Tickner
> Technical Support
> 800-545-9485, Ext 536
> SoftLanding Systems
>