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Floating Top Link?


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Posted by Tslinger on May 03, 2022 at 08:00:15 from (69.74.110.34):

Ok, here's the deal....

I've got an old Ford 909 rotary mower that I'd like to use again. Haven't used it in a couple decades at least, but it's in reasonable shape with a little welding...

Back then, we had it behind the 8N. Standard top link. We got away from it when my folks picked up a finish mower, and have been using that since.

The 909 wasn't built to have any flex in the toplink. I don't know why, guess it wasn't a thing then... I am sure people are about to tell me to just use a chain. And that will be a NO! I want some flex so it can follow terrain, but I want that flex limited so the back can't come up enough to screw with the PTO. My use is to push back at the field edges that have all grown in with briar, so there will be a lot of backing in to it. (I hate briar. I don't need the field space as we don't farm anymore, but I REALLY HATE BRIAR)

It's going behind a MF 135 this time. While putting a hydraulic top link on is on my wish list, I don't know if my valve will do float, which would solve this... (I'm 100 miles from the tractor, and the copy of the hydraulic manual I have is sketchy at best)

So... The question (finally) is this. Is there a manually adjustable top link that allows some level of movement? Like instead of the typical swivel end, a slotted slab. The top link position on the 909 doesn't allow enough room for the swinging type arrangement we have on our Ford 930 finish mower...


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