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<blockquote data-quote="Courier" data-source="post: 7735674" data-attributes="member: 868"><p>In the days of changing trailers on and off the forage harvester every load I made skids from thick walled box section the same width and no wider than the trailer drawbars. The forward end was sloping so as to ride over swaths without dragging and extended up to the original fixing hole through the drawbar. The skid was about 70 cm long and obviously unbalanced so on top of the rear of the skid I welded a forward facing tongue and a corresponding sliding fixing point under the drawbar. These skids were somewhat heavy but nevertheless could be attached and removed by one person sitting on the ground balancing the rear of the skid on a boot toe whilst manouvering the front to insert the original fixing pin. The geometry was such that the skid bottom was flat on the floor when the trailer was unhitched and allowed plenty of room for hooking up.</p><p>They actually never came off the trailers because they were very successful at traversing swaths of all different crops without dragging and exhibited a far lower ground pressure than anything else available at the time, or probably now.</p><p>Should have patented it !</p><p></p><p>Remember where you saw the description first.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Courier, post: 7735674, member: 868"] In the days of changing trailers on and off the forage harvester every load I made skids from thick walled box section the same width and no wider than the trailer drawbars. The forward end was sloping so as to ride over swaths without dragging and extended up to the original fixing hole through the drawbar. The skid was about 70 cm long and obviously unbalanced so on top of the rear of the skid I welded a forward facing tongue and a corresponding sliding fixing point under the drawbar. These skids were somewhat heavy but nevertheless could be attached and removed by one person sitting on the ground balancing the rear of the skid on a boot toe whilst manouvering the front to insert the original fixing pin. The geometry was such that the skid bottom was flat on the floor when the trailer was unhitched and allowed plenty of room for hooking up. They actually never came off the trailers because they were very successful at traversing swaths of all different crops without dragging and exhibited a far lower ground pressure than anything else available at the time, or probably now. Should have patented it ! Remember where you saw the description first....... [/QUOTE]
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