Re: Driving old iron --10-20

Posted by Bob Kerr on October 30, 2008 at 20:21:41 from (63.134.174.159):

In Reply to: Driving old iron --10-20 posted by LenNH on October 30, 2008 at 12:34:43:

Hi Len, I had a 29 10-20 just a few years back that I used every day. I have to agree with just about everything you said especially about the ride on hard ground or gravel. But on soft ground mine rode like a Cadillac and pulled like a mule! I skidded logs in Indiana Hill country and had a chance to run a sawmill and threshing machine at a few shows. On the sawmill they had a H on the belt but couldn't get the RPM s up enough with the small pulley so I belted up The 10-20 and it was just right! The sawyer had me on that mill all weekend! The thresher was a 32 inch JD which was just a bit big for the 10-20 but it did well, but was just barely underspeed at the thresher drive pulley. I also ran mine on Kerosene when it was cheap enough. I think I still have ringing in my ears from the noise! If you had the muffler yours was a 27 or 28. Mine steered ok, but could have been better if I had more than one skid ring but it did ok except in snow. Then just forget it! I am still working a dual fuel F-12 and was just running it last week. It does well , but I sure wish it had foot brakes in the hills I am in with it. That little bugger will sure tug a fat log up a hill! It makes a lot of racket too with that short exhaust pipe. It is on rubber and my 10-20 was on steel. Wish I hadn't sold the 10-20 but I got offered a lot for it and it needed the E4A mag worked on. I had an old fellow tell me to hook up my plow off center. I have a 2-14 little genius on steel and it got a better bite, both shares were cutting closer to the same amount, but the tractor did want to pull to the side some. Good sandy soil I could pull in 3rd but anything else it was 1st or second. Muck clay would want 1st gear. That ol gal would really tug big logs up hill. I did have a problem once though when one of the rear wheels found a buried rock that just happened to be right between the lugs. Stopped me cold in my tracks! The wheel just spun on top of that rock and I had to unhook and move over to miss it. I do my log skidding now with an H with 3 point, but I sure do have an appreiciation for how well built those oldies are and what the fellows before us went through using them. My 1935 F-12 I now use to pull the firewood trailer in the woods.

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