3 Point Geometry

[TractorGuy]

Does your tractor have multiple choices for top link connection? If so the top hole will have the greatest lifting force with the least amount of travel. The lowest hole will have the least amount of lifting force with the greatest amount of travel.

Also the CAT 1 standard for top link height from the lower links is 18".

This was the position choice I was referring to.

I sure need to find some auctions like you find. Around here people go nuts and pay above retail at the auctions.

 

[rangerfredbob]

Just have to be persistent in my experience, most times what things to for doesn't make ANY sense, many things to for over retail especially if painted green (doesn't seem to matter if they are made by Deere or not for whatever reason) and normally the uglier the cheaper, and if it needs something that someone thinks is major because they aren't handy then it's cheap too... Then there's just being lucky enough to be one of few people that go to certain auctions...

Turns out the scrap chain I found was 1/2" or close enough, so used the 1/2" hook I found on the side of the road a few months ago

 

[Gordon Gould]

Quote Originally Posted by TractorGuy

Does your tractor have multiple choices for top link connection? If so the top hole will have the greatest lifting force with the least amount of travel. The lowest hole will have the least amount of lifting force with the greatest amount of travel.

Also the CAT 1 standard for top link height from the lower links is 18".

This was the position choice I was referring to.

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I sure need to find some auctions like you find. Around here people go nuts and pay above retail at the auctions.

Be careful here it can be confusing - A "Draft Load" is not a Lifting Load. In fact it is just the opposite. A draft load is the pushing force the top link puts on the tractor when running an earth engaging implement like a box blade. The dirt tries to hold the box blade back so that the box blade wants to roll forward and pushes the top link against or into the tractor.

When you lift something just the opposite happens. The forks try to roll back and the top link pulls on the tractor.

Look up Harry Furgeson's 3ph invention for a better/fuller explanation

gg

 

[ruffdog]

Quote Originally Posted by TractorGuy

Does your tractor have multiple choices for top link connection? If so the top hole will have the greatest lifting force with the least amount of travel. The lowest hole will have the least amount of lifting force with the greatest amount of travel.

Also the CAT 1 standard for top link height from the lower links is 18".



Be careful here it can be confusing - A "Draft Load" is not a Lifting Load. In fact it is just the opposite. A draft load is the pushing force the top link puts on the tractor when running an earth engaging implement like a box blade. The dirt tries to hold the box blade back so that the box blade wants to roll forward and pushes the top link against or into the tractor.

When you lift something just the opposite happens. The forks try to roll back and the top link pulls on the tractor.

Look up Harry Furgeson's 3ph invention for a better/fuller explanation

gg

YES !!! Lifting with 3pt forks PULLS on the top link while DRAFT loads is force PUSHING on the top link. Two very different things.