2210 TPH float
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kennyd
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Yes, your 3PH floats, there is no downpressure on most 3PH's
Try this....lower your 3PH all the way, then try to lift the arms up, you will see that yon can very easily(if nothing is attached that is! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
Try this....lower your 3PH all the way, then try to lift the arms up, you will see that yon can very easily(if nothing is attached that is! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
megotatractor
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It "floats" with the lever in the down position. what I wish it would do is apply variable up pressure so my back blade didn't gouge. this is just dreaming now maybe someone knows if there'ss a way to do this ; possible to add some kind of pressure regulator to the tph? it already has a valve that controls the speed that it drops but this doesnt maintain any upward pressure on the lift. Such a thing would have to operate with the lever in the "up" position I would assume?
RalphVa
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Another poster said that the 4010 3 PH (which is probably identical to the 2210's) floats in the middle position. I found that it does indeed float there. Just lower it a little bit, get off and see if you can easily lift the arms. I could on mine.
If it's like the 4010, you can push the rockshaft all the way to the "up" position and it'll automatically return to the middle. Not so with going down. I suspect it'll float either somewhere in the "down" area or middle position but haven't actually tried it with the lever left in a down position. The manual says to return it to the middle position. It doesn't say where it floats.
On the 4010, I think you can lower it to a fixed spot in the down area and bring it back to the middle and the implement will stay where you lowered it to. Therefore, you can mark where to go to with a marker to run your cutter, for instance. In the case of a plow on the back, you'd lower it to the ground and it'll float up over any raised spot but won't drop lower. If you left it down, it won't exert any down force but would then float down if the plow dropped into a low spot. I'm not sure whether it would then float back up once it levelled off or ran into a hump.
I'd try it with nothing attached, rockshaft all the way down and with rockshaft in the middle. See if you can lift the arms. Just lower the arms a little bit first.
By the way, what are the min/max lift heights at the ends of the arms on a 2210? Asked a friend who has one, and he didn't know.
Ralph
If it's like the 4010, you can push the rockshaft all the way to the "up" position and it'll automatically return to the middle. Not so with going down. I suspect it'll float either somewhere in the "down" area or middle position but haven't actually tried it with the lever left in a down position. The manual says to return it to the middle position. It doesn't say where it floats.
On the 4010, I think you can lower it to a fixed spot in the down area and bring it back to the middle and the implement will stay where you lowered it to. Therefore, you can mark where to go to with a marker to run your cutter, for instance. In the case of a plow on the back, you'd lower it to the ground and it'll float up over any raised spot but won't drop lower. If you left it down, it won't exert any down force but would then float down if the plow dropped into a low spot. I'm not sure whether it would then float back up once it levelled off or ran into a hump.
I'd try it with nothing attached, rockshaft all the way down and with rockshaft in the middle. See if you can lift the arms. Just lower the arms a little bit first.
By the way, what are the min/max lift heights at the ends of the arms on a 2210? Asked a friend who has one, and he didn't know.
Ralph
on my old tractor JD 214 with a sleeve hitch you set it to go down as far as it would go. Then you used the adjectment on the plow to control how deep it went the landside on the bottom took care of that. Would I leave the TPh leaver in the down Position or pull it back to the Nutral position
megotatractor
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Yes, that's exactly right. in the lower position it moves up and down to both extremes. in the middle position it lifts but only drops to where it was. To my mind "float" would mean that it actually floats over the terrain with a certain amount of weight always carried by the tractor. What we have I would actually term more accurately as "drop and drag". I once drove LMC snowcats (DeLorean) in Colorado where the rear lift had three settings as to how much "float" you wanted on the rear implement. I don't remember if it would actually apply a variable downforce or upforce? but it would be nice to have something like that on my tractor where I could chose to apply certain upforce to the implement and not allow the full weight of the rear blade on the ground , hence a true "float"..
Min height on the 2210 lift arms is about 3 inches off the ground. Max is around 26 inches
Min height on the 2210 lift arms is about 3 inches off the ground. Max is around 26 inches
fgross335_2210
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I have a 5 ft backblade on my 2210. I have found that if the blade bites too much, shortening the toplink reduces the angle of attack and it doesn't dig in. Or course, this makes the blade more agressive when you're backing up.
When I plow my gravel driveway, I just set the blade 1-2 inches above the ground and go at it leaving just a little snow. This works well as long as the driveway is relatively level.
When I plow my gravel driveway, I just set the blade 1-2 inches above the ground and go at it leaving just a little snow. This works well as long as the driveway is relatively level.
