You can add the weight of the fel so with a bucket of dirt you would have about 3,000 lbs. If you have filled tires or wheel weights that would help too. When you drop the lpgs on the ground you can't add that as weight for traction purposes.
While you can raise the cutting edge to regain traction it isn't doing you much good at that point.
Scott (?) ... stop makin' so much sense will ya ?
... :laughing:
Unfortunately I don't have wheel weights or filled rears ... the
B2910 doubles as our primary lawnmower and I wanted to keep a light footprint, figuring that I could add ballast as the particular tasks demanded it.
This is one instance where that logic has failed me.
I am still interested in your design though and hope it works out.
I do too ...
If I had a little more common sense - as well as patience - I probably would have held off for a bit and considered the dimensions a little more carefully before I started slicin' and dicin' ...
My primary consideration at the time was utilization of the materials I had (two 7' long pieces of 10" c-channel) and avoiding waste. Making the decision to go with 6' wide x 4' long (or 4' 6") allowed me to fully utilize the drops off the c-channel for the tailgate.
Truth is I had made the decision long ago to go with a 6' width ... and I had three drops (two 3" x 3" x 3/8" angles and one piece of 2" Schedule 80 pipe) from prior projects already cut to that length. Obviously it was a decision that wasn't all that well researched ... since I'm using none of those pieces in this build.
Both of my lpgs have 60" skids oal. Sorry I was mistaken and thought I had included that previously.
You may well have ... but I didn't go back and search this thread to find it while I was replying to your post.
These days my short-term memory is starting to suck a bit ...
Weight is an issue for everyone but I don't see that being the problem for your 3ph at this point. The hitch can easily lift more implement than you can pull.
Yup, probably true ...
My concrete ballast block (roughly 22" wide x 25" long x 29" tall)- which is awaiting modification to lighten it - weighs on the order of 1100 lbs and is mostly all behind the pins (especially considering the QH adds another 4" or so) ... and it will lift it ... barely ...
Consider this for a moment, when a 6' wide land plane is engaged with the ground it has two blades for a total of 12' of blade for drag.
Always with the good points ... :laughing:
It will be interesting to see how it operates as a practical matter ... given the design principles and features I'm incorporating into it.
As an example, if I were working terrain that was lumpy and fairly uneven, I'd think that I would be initially able to set the blades high and carve off the high spots. That would avoid having all of that 12' of cutting edge engaged at once.
Of course, at some point,
all of it will be engaged ...
Hmmm ... that just got me thinking ...
I originally designed it for the blades/cutting edge carriers to pivot off the rear carrier ... wonder what the practical implications of using the
front carrier as the pivot point would be ... ?
Gonna have to ponder that a bit ... :scratchchin:
I worked with my 8' lpgs all day and there were times that it was a hard pull. I am just trying to help with advice based on my experiences.
I know you are ... and it appears to me that you certainly do have some real-world experience, since from what I've read you appear to be doing this on a commercial basis.
So your comments about my tractor being able to pull it successfully are causing me some angst ...
But that's totally fine ... I'd rather have your candid input than not ... :thumbsup:
Good luck with this and hope it turns great for you.
Thanks ... I certainly do appreciate the thought - and the time and effort - you have expended to offer your advice/input.
