jonsstihl
Veteran Member
I always use extremes also when I am thinking a project through. it helps me visualise what is happening. and makes it easier to spot mistakes with dimensional factors.
Agreed, but the post I was quoting was so general, it just needed to be corrected.True, but there shouldn稚 be an increase of damaging the chipper.
I always use extremes also when I am thinking a project through. it helps me visualise what is happening. and makes it easier to spot mistakes with dimensional factors.
I often use the 10,000 pounds of ballast weight on the 3 point when I am trying to demonstrate to an "unbeliever" that putting weight on the 3pt. REALLY DOES unload and take weight off of the front axle. This concept will still be debated by some people that cannot wrap their head around the concept that a tractor is a teeter totter with two fulcrum points. The front axle and the rear axle.
So put 10,000 pounds of weight behind the rear axle and tell me the front axle won't lift skyward. But if you just put a 1000 pounds out back, many will erroneously debate that it doesn't remove even a pound of pressure on the front axle. They cannot see it, but the 10,000 pound example will usually get them to thinking. Another absurd example is to put a 100 foot boom pole on the 3 point and then put 100 pounds of weight at the end of the 100 foot boom pole. Think about that one for a bit. Yes, using absurdity to explain the logical, can work to enlighten.
I was going to let this go but I can't help myself.
The question isn't if that scenario will take weight off the front axle, it's when will it take weight off the front axle and when will it add weight to the front axle? Use your scenario but add an additional 20,000 lbs. to the bucket. The fulcrum just changed from the back axle to the front axle and your 10,000 lbs. on the back added to the weight now on the front axle. But we all know it is absurd to think anyone would ever actually put any amount of load in the bucket of their tractor.
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