Re: Power Outputs

Posted by Bob M on September 17, 2004 at 12:34:49 from (165.170.128.65):

In Reply to: Power Outputs posted by Allan in NE on September 17, 2004 at 09:42:08:

Those old tractors worked indeed Allan!!

Kinda the same deal with a mounted sweet corn picker on our faithful Super M. PTO ran the picker mechanism; the hydraulics operated the cutter lift cylinders and worked the dump cart; and the tractor moved itself, the picker and dump cart (cart weighed 8,000 lb loaded) across the field. Used every one of the tractor’s 44 HP!

Was no picnic for on the operator either. The picker sheet metal funneled engine heat directly back onto the operator - it was brutally hot even in moderate weather. And it was NOISY! Besides the normal exhaust bark, the myriad of chains, the elevator conveyor and blower (with the operator sitting right in the middle) made it deafening. Nor did the tractor have power steering. With an extra an 800 lb or so of picker carried on the fat single front tire, guiding the machine across our gravelly, side hill fields was indeed a “two fisted” job.

However I kinda miss running that outfit now!

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