Posted by donald Lehman on November 22, 2020 at 08:15:46 from (74.78.242.235):
In Reply to: belt power equipment? posted by swindave on November 22, 2020 at 05:26:39:
We had a belt driven silo blower and a belt driven ensilage cutter up to about the time I was 15. A narrow front end tractor is much easier to use on a belt. With a wide front end you have to make sure the rear wheels of the tractor are elevated enough that the wide front doesn't interfere with the belt. The longer the belt, the less tension you have to put on the belt to keep it from slipping. A steel pulley requires more tension than the older fiber/paper pulleys did. When you back the tractor up to tension the belt, you try to back up as straight as possible. Then you engage the pulley slowly and see how the belt runs. If the belt runs to the inside of the pulley, you steer the front of the tractor slightly outward away from the belt and try it again. You do the opposite if the belt runs to the outside of the pulley. You put a twist in the belt in situations where for some reason you have to set the tractor up on the wrong side of the blower to run the belt in the right direction to run the blower. We had one silo where we had to set the tractor up on the right side of the blower instead of the left side and had to twist the belt to run the blower in the correct direction. On a morning after a rain, you started the tractor up and let the belt run for a least a half hour before trying to blow corn, to dry the belt out enough so as not to slip. Unplugging clogged blowers and pipes because the belt came off under load was NOT a fun job! You used a bit of commercial belt dressing on those days, too. If lacking belt dressing just a hint of molasses on the belt would help. (unless you overdid it with the molasses and made the belt even more slippery) Your joy knows no bounds when a belt lacing rips in two while you are feeding the corn into the blower at max capacity and you plug the whole 50 feet of blower pipe. BTDT entirely too many times. Chuckle.
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