Posted by kcmelancon on August 18, 2014 at 18:30:50 from (65.128.168.96):
A friend of mine has a John Deere Model H that he just got back together and had a very strange thing happen - he lost the flywheel. Yes, it's true, on the maiden voyage down the driveway, with his young daughter on his lap, the flywheel fell off. This event so flustered him that he secured his daughter, reached for the clutch, and caught only a brief glimpse of the flywheel moving past the front axle. Now, unfortunately this did not happen in open farm country, but rather, in very long grass near myriad wetlands (ahead and to the flywheel side) with bull rushes etc. The bottom line is that he has been over as much area as he can with a brush hog to knock it down, and in spite of he and friends spending many hours looking for the flywheel it has gone missing. In hindsight how precious it would be to have that one critical second back to see where the flywheel was headed as it departed the driveway.
Anyway, the flywheel is about 16" dia, weighs over 80 lb and might be a little over 2" in width. It is my opinion that when such a flywheel, rotating at 1000-1500 rpm, fell off the tractor, the flywheel would posses significant inertia and would be capable of going much further than one might 1st imagine it could go. In my minds eye it would be akin to a very powerful gyroscope, thus would have a strong tendency to maintains its vertical orientation and cover significant ground before hitting something substantial or coming to rest.
So, I suspect my friend is not the 1st person to ever loose a large flywheel like this, and was hoping someone might be able to offer some insight in terms of how far such an item might be capable of traveling on open ground, or better yet some 1st person account of how far some similar object has traveled. Thanks in advance for any input you may have.
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