tmajor
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- Oct 9, 2007
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- NE PA
- Tractor
- 2010 MF 1529, Woods ZTR MZ1952, National Mower sickle bar circa 1963
Here is a new concept, I'm mentally working on.
I've got 30 pounds of weight under the rear of my ZTR mower. This helps with traction, however, even the 30 pounds doesn't balance out the weight of the front (deck, castor wheels, etc.). If I'm going down an incline, with a roll, the mower won't turn toward the up-hill side of the roll. Reason being, the up-hill rear drive wheel has very little weight on it. The 30 pounds underneath, and the mower deck, throw the center of gravity of the tractor toward the lower side.
My thoughts are: If there were two, identical, movable weights (left and right), tied together with a cable and run over a pulley, they would move oppositely, up and down with gravity. This, in itself would not change the center of gravity, but still, make it fall toward the lower wheel. But ... if they were guided by tubes, which were placed at an angle (left and right), the center of gravity would shift toward the higher wheel and away from the lower wheel, possibly keeping the center of gravity line more under the center of the tractor.
Let me hear your thoughts.
I've got 30 pounds of weight under the rear of my ZTR mower. This helps with traction, however, even the 30 pounds doesn't balance out the weight of the front (deck, castor wheels, etc.). If I'm going down an incline, with a roll, the mower won't turn toward the up-hill side of the roll. Reason being, the up-hill rear drive wheel has very little weight on it. The 30 pounds underneath, and the mower deck, throw the center of gravity of the tractor toward the lower side.
My thoughts are: If there were two, identical, movable weights (left and right), tied together with a cable and run over a pulley, they would move oppositely, up and down with gravity. This, in itself would not change the center of gravity, but still, make it fall toward the lower wheel. But ... if they were guided by tubes, which were placed at an angle (left and right), the center of gravity would shift toward the higher wheel and away from the lower wheel, possibly keeping the center of gravity line more under the center of the tractor.
Let me hear your thoughts.
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