| Show CAUSES GREAT LOSS OF POWER ON TRACTOR r f fw- fw a r vet a v vM vi M I i- i L LI 1 ji I 1 y rk 6 a AN EXAMPLE OF AT LEFt AND ITS USE DY-USE OF AN A LE OF CHAIN By Br N NEA A Service BERKELEY Calif Aug Auff 14 14 How do you hitch your our tractor Is 18 there ther or doe does the tho load trail straight back Arc you using too much fuel and doing dolne t too loo e little work per hour Is I there unnecessary friction on the tho tractor wheel bearings too rapid wear too many repairs repair Is Isyou Isyou you ou machine hard to steer These Thes faults are ar common but fairly easy to overcome Is present in a tractor when the direction of oC pull is not parallel to the direction In which the implement moves Hitch a team by a foot 10 chain to th the side of ot a box car and ha o havo them pull It along the track You will III notice the tho animals animal piny step side sidestepping sidestepping ping Their sidewise pull crowds the wheel flanges fiances against tho rail rall thereby greatly Increasing friction Should you OU hitch the th team to the car head and allow them to walk between the th rails they would move the th car more easily and comfortably GREATER TER RESISTANCE Tb The sam same principle applies to tho use us of ot farm implements says Arthur G Hoffman Hottman of ot the tho Col Col- Col College leee Col-leee lege of Agriculture University or of California He Ho has haa learned that when a email tractor running with both drivers on the tb unplowed land Is pulling a two or three bottom plow the th center of ct c resistance In Inthe Inthe the plow moves move in a line con con- considerably con considerably offset from the th line In which the th center moves move Not only does this affect the pulling power of ot the th tractor but It increases side aide ld strains trains and wear wearon wearon wearon on th the plow which will wilt pull on occasion one-fifth one harder than necessary There Is no excuse for tor ilde-dratt ilde side draft dratt says lays Hoffman when the tho load Is such that it can lust Just as aswell aswell aswell well trail straight back from the center of or the th as aa in scraping leveling l drag drag- dragging dragging ging packing and seeding OFFSET OFFSET THE TilE I In other cases offsetting the I hitch will settle the th problem This wilt will cause caus one on driver to pull more I load than the th other but will not cause Whenever the th path of ot the tractor is limited by the edge dt ot of the furrow wall or of or standing grain or row rows of ot trees or vines 1 Is practically unavoidable una unavoidable void void- able able but it may b be reduced todo to toI todo todo I do little harm At least tenths nine of ot the draft draft side trouble trouble occurs occur In plow plow- plowIng Ing Small tractors tractor able abl to pull only two or three thre plow bottoms have more mor difficulty than larger outfits A A rope chain loose clevis or any other object capable of ot trans trans- transmitting trans muting a 0 pull will it If free frea fre to toI toS I S swivel SIvel Ivel at both ends sot set ct itself In th the direction cLlon of th the fore force torce It 11 transmitting Such a 0 device will lit show th the amount of ot offset nULES TO FOLLOW may bo be b reduced or eliminated by these the rule rules Reduce I l the tho angle of at offset to nothing and there ther will be b no nc 2 Make 1 2 Mak the th angle anele of or offset very vory small mall by usIng a a long chain for example and the th aided raft will be b correspondingly small email mall Reduce 3 3 Reduce the tho th total draft rev reo r and the th will be b reduced In the th same cam proportion Sided S raft when hon n necessary n may be b divided divided between the the tractor and plow causing th the load to b be heavier on th the driver near or r th the point of ot hitch hitch- hitch Hoffman points out that side side- sidewise side wis wise and upward forces tore are al- al always always al always ways and necessarily n c present 1 tn n plowing but these thee thes things can bo be largely eliminated J |
