Nuther ?

Sprocket1 · Sep 8, 2003

This may be the wrong place to post this, but anyway. We all know that a two wheel tractor with a FEL always pushes to load the bucket. A MFWD sometimes pushes and sometimes pulls the bucket to load it. Now, with that said, does a horse (with full time 4wd BTW) push or pull a plow?

msuttner · Sep 8, 2003

That totally depends on how big the horse is, how much grain the horse has been fed and what direction the barn is to your location. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

rockinmywaypa · Sep 8, 2003

Why do people ask questions like this? It's going to keep me thinking all night. One time crossing a creek I had to grab a horse's tail and he definitly pulled me across and I suppose a cowboy roping a calf and tieing the rope to the saddle horn is in pulling mode but to look at the horse pushing against the collar ....

Henro · Sep 8, 2003

A MFWD sometimes pushes and sometimes pulls the bucket to load it. 

How can this be, if the loader is in front of the front wheels?

I can't imagine how my MFWD tractor could pull the loader into anything... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

My tractor always pushes the loader bucket to load it from what I can see... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

hillslider · Sep 8, 2003

A horse pushes the plow.....The big breast collar that is around the neck of the horse is pushed on. If the horse was pulling it all attachments to the animal would have to be behind the rear wheels I mean legs. We had a FEL for a Little Ford 8N that was a pull type. The main attachment to the trator was at the 3pt hitch.....thus it pulled the FEL. How is that for my engineering skills. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Soundguy · Sep 9, 2003

( thus it pulled the FEL. )

Don't you mean REL.. is FEL refers to front end.......

Soundguy

hillslider · Sep 9, 2003

No it is a FEL....but there are long pipes that supported the FEL like a sub frame that attatched to the 3 pt. It was not a rear dump box. It really was a piece of junk though......I think it was made for another tractor and at some time someone re-engineered it to work on the 8N.

crb478 · Sep 9, 2003

A horse pulls a plow, he pushes the harness

hillslider · Sep 9, 2003

You got me there! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

StoneHeartFarm · Sep 9, 2003

He's pulling it. If he was pushing it, it would be in front of him.

Steve

rdam · Sep 9, 2003

If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

Larry Black, Comedian

frank_f15 · Sep 9, 2003

( We all know that a two wheel tractor with a FEL always pushes to load the bucket. )

i did not know they made 2 wheel tractors? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif bet that gets hairy at times! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

slowrev · Sep 10, 2003

Well I guess so. Sort of like pushing on the ground with your legs/feet to pull a sled. It is an equal and opposite thing you have to push to pull, but it is the end result that counts.

Big_A · Sep 10, 2003

Wasn't that like the dumbest thing he had ever heard anyone say? I know one thing, I'll bet after a day of pulling/pushing a plow, neither the horse nor the farmer really cared which one they were doing!

MossRoad · Sep 10, 2003

i did not know they made 2 wheel tractors? 

http://www.gravely.com/Therotwowheel/

slowrev · Sep 10, 2003

Another 2 wheel tractor was Simplicity. I grew up with one. Used to plow with a single 12 inch plow all day behind the 2 wheeled mule /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Kept up about 3-4 acres of garden with it for 20 years or so. Had cultivators, harrows, sickle bar cutter for it.

Slamfire · Sep 10, 2003

Not to mention Shaw and David Bradley, as sold by Sears and Roebuck.

BigIron · Sep 25, 2003

"Now, with that said, does a horse (with full time 4wd BTW) push or pull a plow?"

My father would have said 'Neither. Horses are for the idle rich. Mules are for the working poor.' One thing about being raised in the country -- the elders had an expression for every situation! ;-)