Yup. Thats what i do all the time. Been running FEA for 15 years. I plan just about everything. Seen too many redos to let it happen to me. I can draw up a bucket or ripper on a couple lunches and fea it the next lunch. Then i can build by the weekend so long as i don't have to do too many iterations. If i do, then i would have been in trouble if i didn't. I have quite a bit of material i intend to use up this winter building stuff. Rather than copy i can design around my material and verify where i need reinforcement. My biggest trouble is the dirt. Machines in factories are very predictable. Dirt changes, has hard spots and so on. That is why i am sucking up as much information as i can. Understanding a new environment so i can plan and build by spring.
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Yup. Thats what i do all the time. Been running FEA for 15 years. I plan just about everything. Seen too many redos to let it happen to me. I can draw up a bucket or ripper on a couple lunches and fea it the next lunch. Then i can build by the weekend so long as i don't have to do too many iterations. If i do, then i would have been in trouble if i didn't. I have quite a bit of material i intend to use up this winter building stuff. Rather than copy i can design around my material and verify where i need reinforcement. My biggest trouble is the dirt. Machines in factories are very predictable. Dirt changes, has hard spots and so on. That is why i am sucking up as much information as i can. Understanding a new environment so i can plan and build by spring.
bulldogshotgun
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That paper is complete bunk. there is no way to tell how much drawbar hp a tractor has from the pto hp.
i could have told you that when i was a little kid.
i grew up on a small farm we had all kinds of tractors, The 45hp Allis Chalmers WD-45 might have ground feed way better than the 27hp John Deere 520. but it could not pull or lift half as much. sizing a drawn implement based on engine or PTO hp is as useful as **** on a boar.
want to build safe equipment? build to actual tested drawbar numbers, and then double it. because it equipment will get abused.
i could have told you that when i was a little kid.
i grew up on a small farm we had all kinds of tractors, The 45hp Allis Chalmers WD-45 might have ground feed way better than the 27hp John Deere 520. but it could not pull or lift half as much. sizing a drawn implement based on engine or PTO hp is as useful as **** on a boar.
want to build safe equipment? build to actual tested drawbar numbers, and then double it. because it equipment will get abused.
