|
Tractor Talk Discussion Board |
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Suddenly disconnected trailer
[ View Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Return to Forum ]
Posted by Deas Plant. on April 02, 2003 at 11:19:08 from (202.138.16.123):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Suddenly disconnected trailer posted by T_Bone on April 01, 2003 at 18:46:47:
Hi, T-bone.
Have you had anything to with the Bartlett ball towing hitch. It's a 'ball' of around five inches diameter with a 3/4"UNC threaded hole in the top that goes where your pintle hook would normally go on the truck and a cup with a hole about 1 1/2 inches diameter in the top where the ring of the pintle hook hitch would normally go on the trailer. When the cup is fitted over the ball, there is a retainer bolt with a large, heavy, cupped washer that screws down through the cup into the ball to hold it all in place. They are only recommended for 2 1/2 ton download on the hitch but are rated to pull up to, I think, 20 tons total trailer and load. The man I work for had one on a Scania tandem drive tipper pulling a tandem axle trailer moving 12 ton track loaders around. I never drove it but everybody who did reckoned it was a mongrel of a thing when loaded because the download on the hitch would make the truck bounce a lot at the front. I could never understand why they didn't put a couple of tons of dirt in the front of the tipper to counteract it but they never did. It was probably around the same level of ease - or difficulty - as a pintle hook to hitch or un-hitch, not as easy as a turntable semi-trailer. The boss has never said he had any trouble with the hitch coming undone but did say he had to replace the retainer bolt every couple of years as the threads wore a bit. That rig was on the road 5 1/2 days a week moving a fleet of eight track loaders. He has sold it now and has a normal prime mover-lowboy combination as he started buying heavier machines that he said would have been beyond the Bartlett ball's rated capacity. That one is the only one I have seen close-up and I wondered if you or anybody else had any experience of them. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
Follow Ups:
Home
| Forums
| Order Support
Today's Featured Article -
Tuning-Up Your Tractor: Secondary Ignition Wires and Distributor - by Curtis Von Fange. In our last episode we spent the entire day checking out the spark plugs. Is that efficency? Actually, it took more time to explain than it really did to do the inspection. At any rate we decided that a compression test was in order so we could verify the internal engine status. That way we wouldn't buy any tune up parts until we were sure that the engine was in reasonable mechanical condition. Our tests showed a fictional compression reading of 85, 80, 82 and 86 psi. That is well within a
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1958 FORD RARE 4x4 801 TRACTOR, ELENCO/FRONT DRIVE, FRONTLOADER AND WEIGHTED REAR WHEELS, FIVE SPEED, LIVE PTO, GAS ENGINE, NEW REAR WHEELS AND TIRES, ENGINE RUNS.
[More Ads]
Copyright © 1997-2026 Yesterday's Tractor Co.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V. Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor HeadquartersWebsite Accessibility Policy |
|
