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Tom Lowe

05-17-2002 16:01:49




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I am a greenhorn. I bought a 80's Hesston. In the owner's manual it shows how to put the hitch in "Position Control" or "Draft Control" and I don't know the difference between them. Could someone please straighten me out.

Thanks, Tom Lowe




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Brian-2N

05-17-2002 16:53:15




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 Re: Three Point Hitch in reply to Tom Lowe, 05-17-2002 16:01:49  
Tom,
Go to the Ford 9N,2N,8N archives and look up draft control. In short, the position control will leave your implement at a setting roughly equivalent to the lever position. It allows you to raise or lower the implement by degrees.
Draft control will raise the implement only fully up or down. Why use it? When plowing it will sense the "pull" of the ground and slightly raise or lower the implement as it meets obstructions. That was the genius of Harry Ferguson's design of the three point hitch as used on Ford tractors. Ford tires would slip and spin in place if you met with an obstruction, while other non 3 point hitch tractors would continue to pull, rear up, flip over and kill you. Check the "N" archives. Lots of good articles on it there.

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Brian-2N

05-17-2002 16:52:22




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 Re: Three Point Hitch in reply to Tom Lowe, 05-17-2002 16:01:49  
Tom,
Go to the Ford 9N,2N,8N archives and look up draft control. In short, the position control will leave your implement at a setting roughly equivalent to the lever position. It allows you to raise or lower the implement by degrees.
Draft control will raise the implement only fully up or down. Why use it? When plowing it will sense the "pull" of the ground and slightly raise or lower the implement as it meets obstructions. That was the genius of Harry Ferguson's design of the three point hitch as used on Ford tractors. Ford tires would slip and spin in place if you met with an obstruction, while other non 3 point hitch tractors would continue to pull, rear up, flip over and kill you. Check the "N" archives. Lots of good articles on it there.

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Brian-2N

05-17-2002 16:52:14




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 Re: Three Point Hitch in reply to Tom Lowe, 05-17-2002 16:01:49  
Tom,
Go to the Ford 9N,2N,8N archives and look up draft control. In short, the position control will leave your implement at a setting roughly equivalent to the lever position. It allows you to raise or lower the implement by degrees.
Draft control will raise the implement only fully up or down. Why use it? When plowing it will sense the "pull" of the ground and slightly raise or lower the implement as it meets obstructions. That was the genius of Harry Ferguson's design of the three point hitch as used on Ford tractors. Ford tires would slip and spin in place if you met with an obstruction, while other non 3 point hitch tractors would continue to pull, rear up, flip over and kill you. Check the "N" archives. Lots of good articles on it there.

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kraig WY

05-17-2002 16:42:46




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 Re: Three Point Hitch in reply to Tom Lowe, 05-17-2002 16:01:49  
Position control puts the implement at one position and holds it whereas Draft control just lets the implement down and it follows the earth. (That is unless I got them backwards).



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