tractors in the wrong direction

[Mark_in_NH]

I should have finished reading all the posts. I had completely forgotten about NH's Bi-Directional. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[nomad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I guess I must be the only one that remembers Glennmac's once famous diatribe: Compact tractors are designed all wrong.

I think this ground has been plowed before. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

We are tiller-ing that plowed ground then
See there is someone (Glennmac) thinking similar to me, he mentioned the same/similar problem(s) 3 years ago in 2001.

 

[stephan]

It was mentioned that the Europeans are doing it, (reversable tractors I mean) well check this out http://www.valpadana.it/uk/index.htm the guy down the road has a couple of them and they are great tractors as well as being reversable.

 

[Mosey]

This thread reminds me of the other thread a while back,

Compact Tractors are Designed All Wrong

I still haven't given up on trying to mount a mower either in front or on the side. I'm just not clever enough and/or haven't found the time to really put some effort into it. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[keeney]

Well, the 3-point hitch was originally invented (by some guy named Ferguson, I think) to pull a light-weight plow and allow it to drag itself into the ground and increasing traction of the tractor while doing it. Prior to that, the plow had to have a lot of weight on it to dig into the ground, and the tractor had to have its own weight to make traction.

The lifting function was for draft-control. The draft control system servoing the plow height to maintain a constant force on the top link. The idea being that constant top-link force=constant tilling depth regardless of the tractor going over lumps and valleys in the land.

The side-to-side geometry and flexibility was designed to help the plow follow the tractor while turning. The idea being to approximate a virtual pulling point up near the front axle.

So, if you are putting anything but a plow or maybe some kind of blade back there, the 3-point hitch really is being used for a purpose other than whit it was originally intended.

- Rick

 

[Old_Hickory]

Harry Ferguson, born in 1884, started experimenting with tractors and plows in his early years. Harry is an important person in tractor history, being the inventor of the 3-point hitch. It was dubbed the "Ferguson System". After meeting with Henry Ford in 1938, over a handshake it was agreed that the 3-point hitch system would be installed on the Ford tractors being produced at that time (Ford 9N from 1939-1942 and the 2N from 1942-1947). These tractors had the "Ferguson System" insignia on them and Harry Ferguson received a share of the profits.
In 1947 Henry Ford's Grandson officially terminated this "handshake agreement". The Ford 8N tractors that were being produced around this time no longer carried the "Ferguson System" insignia. Ferguson sued the Ford Motor Co. and eventually won a settlement.

In what some say is retaliation, Harry Ferguson began producing his own line of tractors, beginning with the TO-20 in 1948. These tractors looked suprisingly similar to the Ford 9N and 2N and sported the 3-point hitch.