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[Charlie_Iliff]

If Sailorcrew's name suggests past experience, you could have correctly ID'd it as a shackle and started a different debate.

Charlie Iliff

 

[Wheeldog]

I think Alex Trebeck would take either answer - the definition of a clevis is "a u-shaped shackle . . .". (you'd just need to phrase it in the form of a question /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif).

I'll take Common Tractor Hardware for $200, Alex.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Charlie,

I'm confused enough with 1 debate going.../w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

 

[Pks]

I use a Twisted Clevis on my drawbar. Does anyone have a preference for the Twisted vs. Straight?

 

[Bird]

Pks, I use the twisted one, too, although I don't really think it makes much difference.

Bird

 

[Knight9]

Just to muddy the waters a bit, I use a Tractor Drawbar Hook in addition to a clevis. Different use though.

Kevin

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Peter,

To tell you the truth, they both work the same for me. Maybe one of our resident engineers can chime in like RobS and explain the differences?

I was brush-hogging a few weeks back, and mother nature got even with me and pulled the hairpin and I lost mine somewhere in the woods.../w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Now, my next one will have the safety latch. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[RobS]

<font color=blue>Maybe one of our resident engineers can chime in </font color=blue>

John I'm touched. Here at work they usually want the engineers to shut up so they can get on with things /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

I think it's pure preference in how the ring part of the clevis hangs. Assuming a vertical hole in your drawbar, the standard clevis will sit vertically and the twisted one will sit more-or-less horizontally. For hooking a chain, either will work but there may be other applications that require a specific orientation.

BTW, here's some engineering conversions for you /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line.
(think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

10 cards: 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

10 rations: 1 decoration

100 rations: 1 C-ration

2 monograms: 1 diagram

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

100 Senators: Not 1 decision

 

[HR_Mutt]

Sailorcrew
In addition to the other "stuff" mentioned above, I got the drawbar that goes between the lift arms and hung 2 different size hitch balls, a chain hook, and a twisted clevis. Still got a couple spaces open/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
regards
Mutt

 

[jdkid]

Hi ya's
just to add to the debate kiwis norm call that a "D" bolt or just a "D"
catch ya
JD Kid