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ChadS
01-28-2005 08:50:45
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Re: Considering pulling with a Farmall H in reply to ChadS, 01-27-2005 16:54:39
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Also, Look at the rules for your hitch specs. If you are allowed to modify the hitch, Id take that into consideration as well, or if not, and have to run the stock hitch, (no drawbar) try to keep the hitch pretty level, not angled up, or down too much, and keep the clevis bolted as close to the hitch itself without excess shims to gain the hitch height, it throws the balance off real bad on the H when overshimmed at the clevis. also a safety factor is involved that way too. too long of bolt can bend and break. On my 3500-4500 farm stock Super H, low gear puller, the tractor is around 3750 base weight with the driver. It has spoked rims on the rear, and cast on the front with one front tire full of water for weight, then add a front tire weight to compensate. We have a 20 inch front end raise rule in our club, if it comes above 20 inches, you are DQ'ed, so had to figure out a basic set up for certain tracks to keep that nose down under 20 inches under all types of tracks. Really, it made a world of difference in the balance of this tractor, when the front comes up, you can feel it take off and speed up a bit, till the ground speed catches up, and lowers the front end back on the track, till the next tough spot on the track,,,,, and back to it again. Thats not using any kind of extended weight bracket on the nose, just weights on the wheels, (no suitcase weights anywhere,,, yet) H's have good potential for balance at 4000 and up, when you get below that, and try to run 3500, the front gets awful light, no room to move weight around. Unless you build custom liteweight front ends hubs etc etc to get that light, and keep the nose down, but, there is other ways to compensate for the front end raising, hitch height can be dropped a bit to hold the front end down longer, distance wise on the track so it does not spin out from losing the bite cause it loses the hitch height from the nose being too high and over center not creating a forward movement when the front does come up. Sure hope this makes sence, Im just rambling here a bit, but its some of the things I keep in mind for my H pullers. ChadS
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