- Location
- mid wales
7710 plough challenge
- Thread starter windymiller
- Start date
144 hours on one engine block......I don't believe it...
- Location
- mid wales
How ever did they manage 6 furrow with less than a 100 horses, you'd need at least 250 this day and age.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
refueling on the move, that will be giving some on here ideas to think about over Christmas,
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Best put this into the HSE thread,
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
wasted years
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- Location
- Cumbrian born and bread
We sometimes forget that the 7710 and similar were big tractors in their day, the stuff of dreams.
Deerefarmer
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- Location
- USA
Not the thread I thought it was going to be when I seen the title
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Standing there holding flares (the firework kind).
flat cab floors and a front linkage.
Can't help but chuckle at the thread running on here with the 160hp JD on 3 furrows needing to be run at 2000 rpm.....
Modern shite.
Modern shite.
It’s a JD thing....Can't help but chuckle at the thread running on here with the 160hp JD on 3 furrows needing to be run at 2000 rpm.....
Modern shite.
I’m just baffled how they managed the driver changes with the armrests folding up the wrong way?144 hours on one engine block......I don't believe it...
At least there's 6 hefty blokes on hand to help fold / unfold the rear window.I’m just baffled how they managed the driver changes with the armrests folding up the wrong way?
And presumably someone running alongside 24/7 with a butterfly net to catch the oil filter if it flies off.
Halcyon days.
mikep
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- Location
- Arse end of Surrey, UK
I remember these when Ford were pushing them. Ravenhills the Ford agents had one at local ploughing matches and I was impressed that the 7710 could pull six furrows when a TW10 could only manage four on the same land
I had a chat with the agents and they said they were puzzled as well. If you put a four furrow on the tractor that was enough, it wouldn't sensibly pull a five even semi mounted. But split it like that and it would manage six perfectly well.
No real explaination but the thought was that with the front linkage and plough the tractor was perfectly ballasted but the ballast wasn't dead weight but there when needed.
Couldn't see a rational explanation but it's a pity that it wasn't pushed more. The reason it failed was that 'it couldn't possibly work on my farm' and far too complicated. Pity.
I had a chat with the agents and they said they were puzzled as well. If you put a four furrow on the tractor that was enough, it wouldn't sensibly pull a five even semi mounted. But split it like that and it would manage six perfectly well.
No real explaination but the thought was that with the front linkage and plough the tractor was perfectly ballasted but the ballast wasn't dead weight but there when needed.
Couldn't see a rational explanation but it's a pity that it wasn't pushed more. The reason it failed was that 'it couldn't possibly work on my farm' and far too complicated. Pity.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Somebody may well correct me on this but I'm sure I've read something about the geometry of the front linkage being critical for a push plough. Ransomes designed the front linkages to maximise weight transfer onto the front axle and it was so effective that the tyres would spin on the rims at times. No amount of dead weight added to the front of a tractor would generate that much grip.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
There was a front mounted Ransomes in the showroom of a local Ford dealer in Watton, for many years, they have long gone now , wonder what happened to it?
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Front ploughs are the latest 'must have' for the 10 series tractor touchers. I'd like a play with one but £1k would be better wasted elsewhere.