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RE: tractor rec's

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Subject: RE: tractor rec's
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:36:22 -0800
> Don't bet any real money on this,  my LAWNMOWER will drag an old
> Cub backwards!

Must be one heavy lawnmower, if it can pull 1600 pounds on turf tires !

> Below is the universally recognized test of an original Cub . .
> 9 horsepower
> belt (equivalent to PTO)  and 6.75 horsepower drawbar. . .

Note that the test only mentions the rated horsepower, the actual drawbar
horsepower demonstrated in their test G is more like 8.75.

Of course, tractive effort is not the same thing as drawbar horsepower, a
5hp tractor can out-pull a 15hp tractor ... if it weighs more and has the
right gears ... it just does it slower.

I certainly can't claim to know, but I thought the 1200 rpm PTO was
something of a standard in the 15hp and under class.  I know my uncle bought
a row-crop Deere in the 60s that had one.  Had different splines too, so you
couldn't accidentally mix them up.  He had a belt pulley that would bolt
over the PTO shaft, which he used to turn an old belt-drive hammermill.

Randall

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