Smoked a clutch on my tiller....

[EE_Bota]

FWIW....I tilled about 3 acres of "broken" ground without so much as a hickup, before tackling the acre or so of nasty "new" ground. Things were cool and set right for the easy land.

When operating over the new ground, I got a few stump remnants stuck and lots of roots and tangles and was able to shut down with minor slippage a few times and get things cleaned out for another go at it. But those events are cumulative to heating things up.....and a few slippage events got progressively worse very quickly with the the now hot clutch. Then too, I forced it a bit trying to finish without further adjustment before my big smoker which I caught too late....and didnt get shut down fast enough. So.....I spose you can call that abuse or operator error. (its a cruel world )

In my defense, lotsa "engineers" woulda had the same problem IMO....unless you wanna dork around for a week or more mining the roots and stumps - I dont (and if JD had a decent tool box....I wudda had the right tools out in the field.)

After cooling and re-adjusting the clutch, the tiller operated very good again. I think I will get a spare clutch and a KK U joint. I got a few peices of KK equipment....and sooner or later...........

Thanks for a lively debate on this issue.......and pass the cherry-nut. I havent had any of that in a long time.

Foggy - The abuser.

I am an engineer, but the wrong kind. I would go by the instructions for adjustment, and I would try to keep a sharp eye on it while running, but that is just habit since childhood. I would try to keep in mind that the clutch protects my tiller AND my little BX, so it would be "by the book" on the clutch for me. If I saw it smoking, I would stop, and let it cool a bit if I had the time, otherwise, I'd try to lighten the load.

If in the course of years, if I wore out the disks over time, I would consider it proper.
I would be mindful of yearly startup procedures..since sometimes a clutch will rust itself into position, and that needs to be evaluated periodically, since we do need it to slip when necessary to protect our equipment.

It might be smart to make a chalk mark to evaluate slip, since over a course of a challenging tilling session, if the thing NEVER slipped, that might be concerning to me. If it NEVER slips I would have to be more picky about making sure it CAN slip, if you see what I mean.

 

[SPYDERLK]

For what it's worth, you at least got one thing right.....You're confused OK.....Badly.

Nope. I said nothing wrong. You just choose to falsify by exaggeration. That has no worth. ... Actually it has negative worth because it confuses some who dont go back and see the composite of what was said.
larry

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Nope. I said nothing wrong. You just choose to falsify by exaggeration. That has no worth. ... Actually it has negative worth because it confuses some who dont go back and see the composite of what was said.
larry

Seriously, do you actually believe that load of bs you just posted????

 

[foggy1111]

Well, I'm the OP here. AND....if you go back and re-read the first few posts you will find that FWJ supplied a pretty darn good answer to my question (TYVM).....while Larry just called me asleep at the wheel and claimed I was a bad operator ....yadda yadda. THEN....Larry, you dont have enough sense to just eat your ice cream!!

Stuff like this make me wonder why I post at all.

Obviously, Larry has never operated a tiller under extreme situations like many others have. Most of us have tilled nice smooth fields.....and most of us can do that without smokeing a clutch. SOMETIMES.....things dont go as planned. The clutch worked fine.....it smoked.....and I didnt wreck my tractor. :thumbsup:

Engineers!!!......geesh!! :laughing::laughing:

 

[nspec]

Lets try one more time....


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[SPYDERLK]

Well, I'm the OP here. AND....if you go back and re-read the first few posts you will find that FWJ supplied a pretty darn good answer to my question (TYVM).....while Larry just called me asleep at the wheel and claimed I was a bad operator ....yadda yadda. THEN....Larry, you dont have enough sense to just eat your ice cream!!

Stuff like this make me wonder why I post at all.

Obviously, Larry has never operated a tiller under extreme situations like many others have. Most of us have tilled nice smooth fields.....and most of us can do that without smokeing a clutch. SOMETIMES.....things dont go as planned. The clutch worked fine.....it smoked.....and I didnt wreck my tractor. :thumbsup:

Engineers!!!......geesh!! :laughing::laughing:

Huh? Your post 18 bore out everything I said about letting a clutch slip. You mean even tho you wrote it down you didnt make the connections?
The asleep at the wheel comment was generic - not aimed at you particularly. And I did not call you a bad operator. My read of post 18 made me think you were very perceptive. You are, however, wrong about my experience with slip clutches. I figured them out as soon as I got smoke from one. Now I know what to do. Mine are all original, up to 50 yrs old, and slip when they need to - only on dangerous overloads. The gearboxes and PTOs are fine too.
larry

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Huh? Your post 18 bore out everything I said about letting a clutch slip. You mean even tho you wrote it down you didnt make the connections?
The asleep at the wheel comment was generic - not aimed at you particularly. And I did not call you a bad operator. My read of post 18 made me think you were very perceptive. You are, however, wrong about my experience with slip clutches. I figured them out as soon as I got smoke from one. Now I know what to do. Mine are all original, up to 50 yrs old, and slip when they need to - only on dangerous overloads. The gearboxes and PTOs are fine too.
larry

You forgot the part about "depends on what the definition of "is" is"....lol!

And the part where "EVERYONE else is wrong and I'm always right".....

 

[SPYDERLK]

You forgot the part about "depends on what the definition of "is" is"....lol!

And the part where "EVERYONE else is wrong and I'm always right".....

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[YesDeere]

This has been fun to watch. I didn't realize tillers were so serious ;-)

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Lets try one more time....


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Apparently not.... Someone still has tears to shed....