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Braden Hazlett

10-20-2004 17:52:23




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What is the purpose of having such a long belt? every tractor i see running an old belt drive implement, i see huge, long belts, wh not use a shorter belt?




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Sid

10-20-2004 19:22:19




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 Re: belts in reply to Braden Hazlett, 10-20-2004 17:52:23  
What Paul said, and the longer belt put the tractor or steam engine farther away making it easier to bring the wagons up to the machine with horses. It got that big hot boiler farther away from the men working. It was easier to keep a long belt on due to things not being lined up laser perfect than a shorter belt. These are things that where told me by a threshing machine operator in the early sixties when we had him thresh some oats for us. They were going down and we were able to cut them with a binder, would have lost the crop otherwise. I was about fifteen at the time and I remember only working with a threshing machine a couple or three times. Around here in the early fifties I remember a lot of threshing was done but was too little to take part. Both Grandads and Dad had a team of horses and I remember them using them to haul bundles to the thresher.

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paul

10-20-2004 18:40:02




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 Re: belts in reply to Braden Hazlett, 10-20-2004 17:52:23  
The weight of the belt offers better traction.

The distance keeps the sparks from the smoke stack from ignighting the straw pile.

--->Paul



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