BTW if you forget draft control on and attach a PHD to the center hole of the top link bracket instead of the top one, you are in for a surprise. The 3ph has enough force to push the PHD up until it wedges the tube between the toplink bracket sides, spreading them.
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Dougster, have you figured the draft control out yet.
I think I'm getting the idea... but as a practical matter, I don't see where it's going to be super-helpful or worth the effort on the small jobs I get to do... usually with the owner standing there and generally uneven, hilly terrain with lots of obstacles. Property owners expect to see you paying close attention to every aspect of what's happening... no "set it and forget it" mode on anything so far. These are not zillion acres jobs like out in your part of the country. I measure all of my jobs in square feet!!!MtnViewRanch said:
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Yoy can set the draft control for the 3 point so it "floats" (similar to the float on a FEL). This is to allow the inplement to stay as level as possible despite the tractor going up and down to the "lay of the land". My 15 series Mahindra does not have draft control and I have yet to use the 3 point since the back hoe has never been dismounted.
Get that backhoe off of there and have some 3-point fun!Offy said:
Backhoes are very cool... especially with thumbs... and provide badly needed ballast (as I found out this past weekend). But 3-point opens up a whole new world. Draft may be great for some, but it's just not necessary or even appropriate for my work up here in New England... at least so far. I don't think you are missing much... although I will admit that with a lot of relatively flat land and certain implements, it could clearly be useful.
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My ol' 9N has given me many, many hours of draft control experience. The back hoe is no match for the 3 point for operational enjoyment. Its like comparing ridin' Schwinn to a Harley.
Dougster said:I think I'm getting the idea... but as a practical matter, I don't see where it's going to be super-helpful or worth the effort on the small jobs I get to do... usually with the owner standing there and generally uneven, hilly terrain with lots of obstacles. Property owners expect to see you paying close attention to every aspect of what's happening... no "set it and forget it" mode on anything so far. These are not zillion acres jobs like out in your part of the country. I measure all of my jobs in square feet!!!
Dougster
I would expect that the draft control would be very beneficial on uneven, hilly terrain.
The problem is the simple geometry of the situation... my tractor vs. their land. Admittedly, my tractor is probably too big (i.e., too long) for most of the "back yard" work I find myself doing.Keith_B said:
One second my rake is in the ground doing fine and the next minute it is all plugged up with roots & rocks or up in the air. I have to actively monitor it and keep it clear. This is not just a case of setting proper depth once, being able to forget about it... and allow it to adjust itself to keep that depth. This is a problem of making almost constant adjustments to follow the contour of some of these relatively small, uneven, under-reconstruction back yards.Remember... half or more of the reason I am there is to straighten out these silly yards... and usually that means I have been digging and/or placing material... so don't expect them to be uniform enough in the initial stages to behave nicely as I'm trying to do the smoothing out work!
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