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Belt Vs. Shaft Drive

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Andy_MifPA

04-27-2007 15:49:22




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I have been told that Shaft drive tractors are much more powerful than their belt drive counterparts. Is this true? How much more power will be usable? I am messing with garden tractor pulling and have noticed that most tractors today have belt drive besides the really expensive ones. Is the difference as great as I have been led to believe? As always thanks for your help and opinons!




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El Toro

04-29-2007 05:01:20




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 Re: Belt Vs. Shaft Drive in reply to Andy_MifPA, 04-27-2007 15:49:22  
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I like the drive shaft on my tractor and I have used it for heavy loads. Hauling firewood and plowing and pushing snow. We used a lot of belts
on a lot of different applications at work. We had a lot of problems when numerous V-belts
were used on pulleys. Even using matched sets of belts didn't help. We were told about the Gates
Powerbands and that solved our problems. Hal

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davpal

04-27-2007 22:25:16




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 Re: Belt Vs. Shaft Drive in reply to Andy_MifPA, 04-27-2007 15:49:22  
Belt drives are just fine for just about anything. If you think about it the belt drives are probably much better. Most machines in factories use belt drives and run 24 hours a day 7 days a week under tremendous hp loads. Our combine weighs about 15,000 lbs and is belt drive. Does just fine with it. Quad is belt drive, works awesome, 150 hp snowmobiles, belt drive, does great, some of them are built up to 400 hp and use belt drive. Harleys, belt drive. Endless reasons to believe belts do a very good job on millions of applications around the world. Look at the load on the serpentine belt on the front of a car. They can go 100,000 miles in the heat and stress.

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skip176

04-27-2007 20:02:41




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 Re: Belt Vs. Shaft Drive in reply to Andy_MifPA, 04-27-2007 15:49:22  
Dont do any pulling but stuff around the house, but it my .02 worth. I read on a site where some guys were talking about there pullers, all shaft driven and they mostly run grade 5 "BOLTS" I use cold rolled pins in mine stock stuff. After watching what these guys build it would be the 5's for me. stronger but still flex enough not to break under the high tourqe.



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AlexLV

04-27-2007 17:01:05




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 Re: Belt Vs. Shaft Drive in reply to Andy_MifPA, 04-27-2007 15:49:22  
Shaft drive is usually used on higher-horsepower applications - no belts to break, better power transfer from the engine to the transmission, etc. I'd say go with shaft drive for a puller - much more dependable. Good luck.



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Jeff

04-27-2007 17:00:26




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 Re: Belt Vs. Shaft Drive in reply to Andy_MifPA, 04-27-2007 15:49:22  
I would think it would depend on what quality of belt you are using. Wheelhorses pull surprisingly well for a belt drive tractor as do others. Put them up against something like a Power King with gear drive and they don't stand too much of a chance. For ease of fixing a drive system, the belt is the way to go but for raw power, I would think shaft drive would be better.



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