MChalkley
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- Joined
- Mar 27, 2000
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- Eastern Virginia
- Tractor
- EarthForce EF-5 mini-TLB (2001)
glennmac - I don't think the physics lesson was so much missed as it was stated in different terms. The reason some tractors top links, or top link brackets, bite the green weenie when bulldozing backwards is because it's not designed for the stress in the opposite direction. And the reason it's more likely to happen to the side links, or side link supporting hardware, is because they're designed for tension stress, and not compression stress. In particular, I'm pretty sure the side link sway adjusters are not designed to handle nearly as much compression force as they are stress force.