[TowerTalk] Using riding mower to run radials (2nd Try)

[Jim Lux]

At 12:05 PM 4/12/2004 -0500, Wendell Wyly - W5FL wrote:
>Unfortunately, almost ALL 3 point hitches DO NOT apply any downward
>pressure - only upward pressure.  This is true on nearly all tractors.
>
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On riding mowers perhaps, but on the run of the mill Ford and Kubota 
tractors I've used, you can exert substantial downforce. You need some 
downforce, or how are you going to do plowing and grading type operations. 
I've managed to lift the back wheels off the ground with a Gannon on the 
hitch..  The three point hitches I've used also have the ability to move 
the two top points relative to each other, which can be used to, for 
example, set the blade angle.  Soemtimes it's hydraulic, sometimes, it's a 
threaded rod/rigid turnbuckle kind of arrangement.

Jim, W6RMK