Re: Wide front /trike front

Posted by txblu on October 05, 2004 at 05:50:42 from (199.46.199.230):

In Reply to: Re: Wide front /trike front posted by Noah W on October 05, 2004 at 03:15:07:

This is great scientific stuff and I like to do "mechanisms" that cause things to happen. By studying the mechanism, you can understand how things work so's you can fix 'em.

More simply speaking, my opinion of course.

Both tractors support the front of the tractor at one point. That's a given.

The difference is that on a wide, the box (CG stability box mentioned above) is square rather than triangular which is a big help and if one wheel contacts a hole, only half the depth is felt by the tractor as the other wheel is on firm ground (assumption). With the tractor pivot point in the center, it only gets half the impact.

Back to the box. With the wide, turning a corner puts the front of the tractor CG vector within the distance between the tractor and front wheel on the outboard side. With tricycle, the wheel is directly under you and the vector it pointing to thin air.

My 2c (First tractor was tricycle. Haven't had one since....course I don't row crop plow either where I want to do a 180 at the end of the field in my inboard tractor tire track either.)

Mark

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