PULLING

bcp · Dec 3, 2011

ovrszd said:
I grooved my tires about six months ago. I maintain Jeep trails frequently and was looking for better traction on hard packed Missouri clay.

Maintain Jeep trails?

If you do that, is it still a Jeep trail?

Bruce

Dead Horse · Dec 3, 2011

LD1 said:
point well taken:thumbsup:

I just figured I'd say something in-case some newbie reads this and thinks that it is acceptable to do since no-one said otherwise

While not wanting to pick on the fella, I thought about it and have to agree with you that his expressed pulling technique is the most dangerous and dumbest thing I have read here.

Every once in a while posters are guilty of talking out of the respective anuses, usually due to ignorance. Some guys do get belligerent or stubborn about it, and I don't feel the need to argue with them as it is like wrasseling in the mud with a porcine. You ain't gonna win, cause said porker likes it.

Thing is, when a man brags about beating up on his equipment and doing something incredibly dangerous, I have to believe he is basically full of carp and just looking for some attention.

Therein, my reaction. Also, It is likely no one would actually behave this way and survive being around farm equipment very long.

RaydaKub · Dec 4, 2011

I'm with LD1 on this one. A solid jerk on a chain from 20 feet and 10 mph is the way to start busting equipment up. There are times when you may need to slack the chain a little (like let it sag on the ground) in order to let your momentum break something loose, but most of the time you're just putting more stress on it than you need to. If your tractor will pull whatever it is that needs pulling, it should pull it without the jerk.

Short Game · Dec 4, 2011

I got given my first tractor and had never before had one. I started breaking stuff pretty soon, and then fixing stuff. It took me some time to stop breaking so many things. Fixing the stuff was bad enough, but the parts were expensive. The worst thing was, when it was broken, I didn't have a tractor to use. I benefited greatly from my OJT (on the job training). A wiser man than I once said: "Education is expensive, however you come by it."

Dead Horse · Dec 4, 2011

And old farmer / stone mason who had already "paid all his tuition bills' told me early on: " the fastest way to move a heavy load is SLOOOOOOOOoooooooooowly"

Gary Fowler · Dec 4, 2011

I actually thought he was pulling everyones leg. The only folks I have ever heard of jerking is 4 wheeler mudder who use a long nylon strap to"jerk" a stuck vehicle out when the cant get enough traction to just pull them. The nylon takes the hard snap out by slowing stretching. Doing that with a chain will usually either leave the chain in two pieces or your tow/towed vehicle in two or more pieces.

Gordon Gould · Dec 4, 2011

Gary Fowler said:
I actually thought he was pulling everyones leg. .

Me too.

LD1 · Dec 4, 2011

Gary Fowler said:
I actually thought he was pulling everyones leg. The only folks I have ever heard of jerking is 4 wheeler mudder who use a long nylon strap to"jerk" a stuck vehicle out when the cant get enough traction to just pull them. The nylon takes the hard snap out by slowing stretching. Doing that with a chain will usually either leave the chain in two pieces or your tow/towed vehicle in two or more pieces.

That is the only way I will jerk. With a nylon "snatch-strap" about 30' or 40' long:thumbsup:

Short Game · Dec 4, 2011

When I had my '52 Jeep and lived on the driving beach, I had 100 feet of 3/4" polypropylene with an eye spliced in both ends. I could slingshot heavy rigs from the high sand with no problem. Chains stretch not so much. A stretched chain is a ruined chain.

GUS FINK · Dec 4, 2011

This what I used to keep "draw-bar" on 3PH from turning

No longer use now that I have made this for Q Hitch

Agree with MHarryE Broken axle about twisted clevis use we also used it to attach the hay mow ropes to tractor

LD1 · Dec 4, 2011

Short Game said:
When I had my '52 Jeep and lived on the driving beach, I had 100 feet of 3/4" polypropylene with an eye spliced in both ends. I could slingshot heavy rigs from the high sand with no problem. Chains stretch not so much. A stretched chain is a ruined chain.

One can only HOPE the chain only streches and is ruined.

When a chain breaks and sends the hook a flying.....

Dead Horse · Dec 4, 2011

Well done.......... that is a nice piece of work!

Short Game · Dec 4, 2011

I've yet to break a chain. I had two stretched by a guy on a Cat when he tried to push a load of huge oak logs off a low-boy when they were still chained down. His mistake cost me two 3/8" 20 foot chains. You could hold them out like a rod after they were stretched. What I fear is cables breaking.

Wouldn't the hook stay with the load and the chain end come flying back?

Baby Grand · Dec 4, 2011

LD1 said:
One can only HOPE the chain only streches and is ruined.

When a chain breaks and sends the hook a flying.....

Seeing a 40' length of 3/8" chain snap and come at you is an event that can change your life - or it may just change your shorts. Let's not go there.

Gordon Gould · Dec 4, 2011

GUS FINK said:
This what I used to keep "draw-bar" on 3PH from turning

Thanks for the pictures - I like that idea :thumbsup:

ovrszd · Dec 5, 2011

bcp said:
Maintain Jeep trails?

If you do that, is it still a Jeep trail?

Bruce

Good point!!!! Sometimes Jeeprs see my tractor tracks and can't believe I had it there.

ovrszd · Dec 5, 2011

Willl said:
Your just fooling yourself. Ain't no way the 3pt will react fast enough. Let alone your hand to eye reaction time.

No, I'm not the one fooling myself. It's you when you assume you know more about what I'm doing than I do. But that's common here in these discussions. :laughing:

ovrszd · Dec 5, 2011

Dead Horse said:
While not wanting to pick on the fella, I thought about it and have to agree with you that his expressed pulling technique is the most dangerous and dumbest thing I have read here.

Every once in a while posters are guilty of talking out of the respective anuses, usually due to ignorance. Some guys do get belligerent or stubborn about it, and I don't feel the need to argue with them as it is like wrasseling in the mud with a porcine. You ain't gonna win, cause said porker likes it.

Thing is, when a man brags about beating up on his equipment and doing something incredibly dangerous, I have to believe he is basically full of carp and just looking for some attention.

Therein, my reaction. Also, It is likely no one would actually behave this way and survive being around farm equipment very long.

I agree with you except the part in bold print above. That is a personal opinion about what is "incredibly dangerous". Once one party makes that determination they tend to start insulting the party that doesn't think it's "incredibly dangerous". Then the conversation deteriorates dramatically.

I am always amused when I see that happen.