Re: I got a flat belt question

Posted by Leroy on March 20, 2013 at 07:34:43 from (69.88.205.38):

In Reply to: I got a flat belt question posted by Daninsc on March 19, 2013 at 18:09:20:

Ours was a David Bradley 10" mill and required a 6" belt and it has to be an endless type in a rubber type of belt. The leather or canvas belts will just split wide open on that small mill pulley and the splicing on a belt cannot make that short of a turn and will ruin the lacing. Your John Deere H will only run a 6" mill lightly loaded at the max and with that revercing pully you would have to run a double twist belt, the Farmall a single twist belt but I do not know if that pully was fast enough to run a mill. Corn shreaders did not require as fast a speed. A Farmall H or John Deere B would run that 10" mill OK but you could not overload it either. And we NEVER had to ground a tractor on anything, hammer mill, buzz saw, corn shreader because of static eletricity and all we had were rubber tires. And on that belt Dad found out what would happen in the first 5 minutes of trying to use that canvas belt from the corn shreader, it is still laying in the barn 50 years later. and as long as you have working distance between tractor and mill, about 15 feet it wil work but a slightly longer belt will work better but if you go too long you can never get the belt pulled up tight enough that it will stay on, that is one problem your Deere would have and that is not enough power to tighten the belt and also weight as that tractor is not heavy enough a tight belt would want to slide the tractor. The mounted buzz saw on the Deere worked ok because you only used a belt of 5" wide and just about 3' longer than the frame of the tractor to the belt pully and the saws had a built in belt tightener. On the rubber endless hammer mill belt they were measured on total outside length so a belt that would span a 20' distance was 40' plus the distance of half way around each pully so that would have been about 41' finall length and they were sold as a certain length but with a 3' less lenght due to the overlaping way of making them endless so a 41' endless belt would only give you 38' so to get the lenght you needed for the pullys to be 20' apart you had to order a 44' belt. We always had to drive stakes in the ground and chain our mill to them to hold it in place as it was only used once in a while, perhaps once in 2 months and 99% of the time it was just grinding hay for to mix in the hog feed. Would fill enough berlap bags to last for ceveral loads of hog feed and when would go to the mill for the feed (did not have a sheller or mixer to complete the feed job) would take the bags of ground hay along with the bags of oats to be mixed in after the mill shelled the ear corn we haulled in and mix it all together.

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