Re: Ya Think?

Posted by Ron in Nebr on January 24, 2006 at 07:09:12 from (12.192.38.178):

In Reply to: Re: Ya Think? posted by Allan in NE on January 23, 2006 at 16:51:46:

Hi Allan- on ours, to reverse the chain direction, there's a lever coming out of the bottom of the 90degree gearbox that the PTO shaft hooks to. There's two ropes hooked to either side of it that run up to the rear window of the tractor cab. To change directions of the chains, you just pull one rope or another. PTO has to be off! There's no hydraulics whatsoever to reverse chain direction, at least on ours. Might be that later versions had a couple small cylinders to do that instead of the admittedly rather crude rope method....in either case, I'd imagine the PTO must be stopped to avoid gearbox damage.

When you start using yours, be sure to have a nice long length of #9 wire or similar on hand so you can fish broken chains back through the runners and a good supply of repair links. Those chains break even more often than the wheelbearings go out! 'Course the sand in our area probably contribuites to increased chain wear.

And be sure to pick up or build a tool to pull the chains together when you're fixing them- it's just basically a steel contraption with two levers shaped like an "H" that you hook the bottoms into the chain rollers and pull the tops of the handles apart to squeeze the chains together.

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