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Homemade N Attachment, What Is It's Purpose?

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8NChris

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Sitting at a local RV park but for obvious reasons I didn't contact the management to ask what it is. Look's like some thought and effort was put into the structure.


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(quoted from post at 10:53:01 01/19/21) is it posi ?
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didn't turn it. The photos were taken in the fall, I don't remember if one hub was fixed or not. If not the spider gears could be welded.
 
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(quoted from post at 10:53:01 01/19/21) is it posi ?
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didn't turn it. The photos were taken in the fall, I don't remember if one hub was fixed or not. If not the spider gears could be welded.
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ooking again at the photos I don't see any thing securing one of the hubs still. It probably is posi or welded spider gears.
 
(quoted from post at 11:27:50 01/19/21) Looks like it would work well at spooling up old barbed wire or lectric fence along the edge of a field.
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Until the wire snaps and whips around your neck and it decapitates you against that axle.

I assumed it was posi. Given at an rv park, maybe something to lift trailer tongues. But, that would be pretty hard to control. Thinking that bladed thing is up there just because it was a convenient place to put it.

Other thought was that if it is something for winching, it'd probably be pretty good at flipping old tractors over backward
 

could the bladed thing get pinned on the end of the axle? still no idea why it would, but the second pic makes me wonder.
 
(quoted from post at 11:20:11 01/19/21)
My best guess - combination ground seed reducer and cable/wire winder.

TOH
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call that a very good 'gusee' or maybe better than a guess. The so called "bladed part" being the spool.
 
(quoted from post at 22:21:32 01/19/21) It looks like a capstan winch to me.
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ood afternoon, grhuck: The winch segments seem to be attached via levers or links to create some sort of adjustment or movement. Seems like it must be a commercial part for a machine that some folks must know about. If the capstan fits onto the truck axle, it seems dangerous. The rotation speed would not be super high, should be the PTO speed, then approx. 1 to 1 chain, then gear ratio, maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of pinion speed. I still would not want to be near it if the capstan was running!

Just another thought at the last minute, If the capstan was winding up wire with the segments spread, then when it came time to remove the roll of wire, possibly the segments could be retracted, releasing the roll of wire.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
(quoted from post at 19:08:13 01/19/21)
(quoted from post at 22:21:32 01/19/21) It looks like a capstan winch to me.
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Just another thought at the last minute, If the capstan was winding up wire with the segments spread, then when it came time to remove the roll of wire, possibly the segments could be retracted, releasing the roll of wire.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
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Yes, looks like an over center type lever on end of hub. And the pivots on the segments are way off center.
I bet they pivot enough you can pull whatever was wound up off.

whatever it is used for, it appears to be used often enough to have a tractor dedicated to the task full time.
No height adjustment required.
The trailer ball hitch appears to be used often.
 
It is a wire winder/capstan. Communication companies use them all the time. I have one on my JD4700. But it is hydro driven not PTO. Better speed control & reverse if needed.
 

I'm thinking wire winder. At a sale years ago of an old mennonite farmer, I bot a half dozen spools of electric fence wire. He made them from old car wheels. Then welded some half inch rod up from the rim on both sides with rod going all the way around so he could spool on more wire and the rod also worked as a handle to turn it by hand. I didn't buy the trailer mounted winder and forgot how it worked.

Also bot at that sale for 10 bux was a homemade post hole digger using a rear end. Now I have to go look to see how it works but I may try hooking it up. PTO shaft hooked on where the drive shaft mounts. I think the rear end was vertical with an auger attached where the one axle is. Then the rear end had a couple ears welded on with about 3' pipe for mounting to the tractor. Guess I'd have to look at it to see how it mounts.
 
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