traction booster gauge

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2010

I just recently purchased a 1959 allis chalmer d-17 and was wondering what the traction booster gauge is actually for. Mine is rusted up and inoperable at this time

Nebraska Cowman · Mar 4, 2010

What it did was measure the pressure on the system to let you know how much weight the hitch was transferring to the tractor. New gauges are no longer available (at least not functioning ones)

omahagreg · Mar 4, 2010

A guy in NE Nebraska rebuilds them to working condition. Scroll down the page in this link to see. Greg
http://www.gubbelsrestoration.com/for_sale_2.html

Mr. Ed · Mar 4, 2010

A traction booster gauge is about like the traction booster, an idiot box. The only thing the tb does is pick the dam plow up out the ground. A-C over sized the equipment for their horse power and put this pos on it so they could fool the customers.

JR.Fyre · Mar 4, 2010

So are you saying that i can take it off and plug the line: Because the one I have youcan not even see the arm under the glass.MANY THANKS
JR.FRYE

Bill(Wis) · Mar 4, 2010

That's about all Harry Ferguson's system did. As a matter of fact, it did even less.

Mr. Ed · Mar 4, 2010

At least he didn't waste money putting a stupid gauge on the tractors.

old · Mar 4, 2010

Ya you could remove it and plug the line but why do all that work just for a pipe plug leave the gauge there at least that way you can say you have a guage and you will not loose it if you ever want to send it in the have it rebuilt but if you remove it you will lay it down some place and loose it and then when you want to get it rebuilt you will no have it or you will find it 6 months later and by then you don't have the $$ to do it again LOL

CWL · Mar 4, 2010

If you want to know the pressure being applied by the hydraulics just put an inexpensive hydraulic pressure gauge.

Nebraska Cowman · Mar 4, 2010

I am not going to argue with you Ed because when you wallow with a pig you just get muddy. But draft control systems do transfer weight and therefore traction to the drive wheels. It allows the operator to do more work with less fuel and less money spent for heavy iron.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2010

And everybody tried to copy it! Hmmm? Draft control on an MF tractor makes a big difference when you know how to use it. A lot of people never try to figure it out or experiment with it though. Dave

Bill(Wis) · Mar 4, 2010

I'll try to explain a little better what it was I was trying to say. I'm thoroughly familiar with draft control but at least the AC had position control in addition to draft control, something Ford/Ferguson lacked. It was added later and if you have a Zane Thang then you have it on even a 9N. Basically, Mr Ed's statement was correct but there's a little more to it. Like leverage, combined weight of the plow and forces of the soil on the plow and operator technique. I wasn't trying to diminish the importance of the concept but I'm still sticking with what I said.

Bill(Wis) · Mar 4, 2010

It was strictly a marketing gimmick. The system worked the same after the gauge came out as it did before.

JR.Fyre · Mar 4, 2010

Goood Afternoon; MY Goood FRIEND Would I doo that,
not me: MMMMMMMMM {CRS} HAVE A GOOD ONE
JR.FRYE

BushogPapa · Mar 4, 2010

The traction Booster gauge gave a very GOOD indication of the amount of Drought (Lbs of Pull) the tractor was exerting on the implement..
The more the hitch spring was compressed, the higher the gauge would read and the position of the hydrolic lever adjusted the amount of hydrolic pressure was exerted on the rear lift-links at a given lever position..
YES, it would lift the plow out of the ground if the shares were not good and the lever adjusted way too high..
With new shares, I have to leave my Hydrolic lever all the way down, or nearly all the way down and in tough spots the front wheels will still drift light on the ground...but NOT reduce the depth the plow is in the ground..

'nuff said...

Ron..

Mr. Ed · Mar 4, 2010

All the dam thing does is lift the implement out of the ground which means you got it to deep to begin with.

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Mar 4, 2010

Cowman, I agree. Nowadays when compaction is such a concern, a lightweight tractor that can pull the same implement a heavier tractor can with some engineering, is an even bigger benefit.
Sorry green and red guys...

Vito · Mar 4, 2010

Tom Sloan rebuilds them.His # is 636-257-3766.

Vito

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2010

Beats plowin with a stupid horse, even if he can use a keyboard, he still smells like a stinkin' horse!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2010

The whole point of the gauge was to know were to position the Traction Booster lever on the D-Series (the lift/lower lever on the the WD/WD-45 & CA"s). If you look in any of the plow manuals it tells you to position the traction booster lever (or lift/lower lever if it is a WD) so that the needle on the traction booster gauge is near the center of the gauge. If you set the lever too high then, yes, it will raise the plow out of the ground. If you set it too low, then the tractor would spin-out before the traction booster would operate. 3 pt. hitches work on the same priciple. Thats what the "Draft Control" lever on most 3 pt. tractors is used for. Anyone who has operated an Allis with a Snap Coupler plow and a properly set-up traction booster system will tell you it works great. If Ed has had problems with on he either didn"t have it set correctly or he couldn"t read the operator"s manuals.

Jack a · Mar 5, 2010

The guage does help to set the lever in the right place but with just a few minutes of experimenting you don't need the guage. All new field tractors still use Traction Booster or draft control and position control for mounted tillage equipment. Mr Ed doesn't know what he's talking about. It doesn't lift anything out of the ground unless you set the lever too high. It doesn't even change the working depth.

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