A new (to me) way to move a tractor

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Zachary Hoyt

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• Oct 4, 2010

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I went to pick up a Case VAC parts tractor that had flat front tires, one rear tire up and the other side riding on the rim. I got a neighbor to haul it in his 5x10 trailer the 5 miles back here. I was puzzling over how to load it since there was no tractor there to push it in and I was going to use a come-along. The wife of the couple who owned it was there and she said that her husband had moved it out of the woods edge onto the lawn by "turning something there on the back". After a minute the light bulb came on and I knew what she meant. I blocked the clutch, put the PTO in gear, put the tractor in first gear and put an 18" crescent wrench on the PTO stub. I was able to move it fairly easily that way, and it was far faster than the come-along would have been. Of course if I had had a winch it would have been easier, but that's life. I thought I should tell the story and see if anyone else has done this sort of thing.
Zach

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Oct 4, 2010

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Have "come-alonged" many aboard, but never thought of that idea. It's really faster? Will try it next time. Thanks for posting.

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Oct 4, 2010

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Boy Zack; Sounds like a "Gut Wrenching Exrerience" to me.

 

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rhouston

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• Oct 4, 2010

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There was a guy on here that moved an old McCormick Deering accross a frozen lake from an island using a rototiller attached to the PTO. There were some pics here some where.

 

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Crem

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• Oct 4, 2010

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I like that idea.

 

Goose

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• Oct 4, 2010

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American ingenuity at it's finest!

 

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rhouston

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• Oct 4, 2010

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If you search stuck and troubled for Mccormick Deering W12 you will find a few pics of it. Seems Jeanray from QC's site is no longer at the address he listed. Too bad it was quite a rescue story.

 

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rhouston

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• Oct 4, 2010

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One more pic, cause I realy like the story on this one.

 

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DoubleR

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Mid Mi

• Oct 4, 2010

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Now I can't say I didn't learn something today. Thats what I like about this form.

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Oct 4, 2010

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That's a great story with pics to document it.

 

greenmech

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Lakeville MN

• Oct 4, 2010

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One could weld a crank handle on a PTO knuckle and have it for different tractors. Thanks for the idea. Ron Mn

 

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John B.

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• Oct 4, 2010

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I've used the belt pulley on tractors to move them and start them.

 

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DiggerDick

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• Oct 4, 2010

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Briggs & Stratton with a v-belt to the belt pulley. Twist the belt or turn motor arond for reverse. Moved a dead JD B thru deep snow that way.

 

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Moline_guy

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• Oct 4, 2010

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Neat story, thanks for the picture.

 

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Jeff(WC)(MI)

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• Oct 4, 2010

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a friend of mine had something made up that went on the pto shaft and would handle a crescent wrench. he uses it to rock engines back and forth that are stuck, came in very handy on my wd45 where the hand crank shaft was gone and i needed to adjust the valves....plus if you go to far with the hand crank you have to make another revolution, go to far on the pto shaft, just back it up a little

 

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Jimmy King

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• Oct 4, 2010

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I think I already have one we used to crank the false engate to the front of the silage wagons with.

 

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Bruce S IL

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• Oct 4, 2010

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When I was a kid we had a guy that farmed about 40 acres close to us and he lived about 10 miles away. He had an old Farmall without a road gear. He made a trailer out of an old truck rear end.
He then made a driveshaft from the PTO on the tractor to the truck rear end on the trailer, put the tractor in neutral, put the PTO in gear and let the trailer push the tractor. This gave him a road gear. When he came to a hill he would take the PTO out of gear and put tractor in gear to get through the hills. When he got back on the flat land he would put the PTO back in gear and go on down the road.

 

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Ron in Nebr

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• Oct 5, 2010

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Shoot, if it really is faster and easier, how about welding a female pto shaft attachment to an old half-inch socket, and then using a cordless impact to move the thing??? Or even a hand ratchet I suppose....Still, either way, it's one of those things I'd just have to hear about it working from someone else before I tried it...well...come to think of it...I might just try the crescent wrench method on my F-20 just to see for myself.

 

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ASEguy

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Festus MO

• Oct 5, 2010

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Fascinating. Talk about ingenuity. Thanks for the pics.

 

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Sam#3

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• Oct 5, 2010

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If the engine is free pull the spark plugs and crank it.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 5, 2010

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Get one of those Indy car starters.

 

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440roadrunner

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• Oct 9, 2010

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I find this entire thread to be amazing. I guess I always figured the slow speed of the PTO/ pulley would have all the gearing against you