I'm pretty sure my WD45 is a divining rod for.....
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Topic: I'm pretty sure my WD45 is a divining rod for.....
Posted By: Roddo
Subject: I'm pretty sure my WD45 is a divining rod for.....
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 12:03am
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Rocks. Big ones. A year or so back I was using the SC subsoiler and the tractor bogged a bit then lurched forward sharply. I looked back and the blade and a chunk of the pull frame of my subsoiler were a lot farther behind me than the rest of it. It broke in half! Today I was plowing with my 3-14 semi in a section of field that my dad has worked for 25 years. Its purring along in 3rd gear without a care in the world, then BANG! I nearly lose half my teeth on the steering wheel and the plow is standing up with the tail wheel in the air. The first bottom found a damn rock that had to be 3ft by 3ft. Should I just park this thing before destroy it? |
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 7:36am
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You need the hand clutch kick out linkage. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 8:34am
| Nearly all of the WDs and WD-45s in my part of NY state (ROCKY) have the hand clutch "kick-out" linkage. I have had no luck finding a description or drawing in my WD-45 operator's or parts manuals. Neither coluld I find it shown in my WD-52/WD-53 plow manual. I may have to go out and take a picture of it on my WD or WD-45! |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 9:15am
| Absolutly get the clutch release, have plowed with one for 50 years and no breakage of plow or teeth, for 15 years plowed hundreds of acres a year, now just a few hours a year. |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 3:22pm
  Here are a coupla pics of the "kickout" on my WD. I don't remember it being welded; my Dad must have done it years ago; he bought it in '58.
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Posted By: Roddo
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 5:03pm
| I think any way you slice it that would be a good idea, but I just seem to be able to find the only rock in a non rocky field. Just bad luck I guess. |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 5:10pm
| Yeah, that clutch release works good. When I was a little tyke 50 years ago I sat in my dad's lap while he plowed with his 45 Diesel. I had a face to face encounter with the steering wheel a time or two when the clutch tripped. Thosw were good times though. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 5:12pm
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Maybe you found the last 2 rocks and it won't happen again in your lifetime.
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Posted By: JohnCinMd
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2010 at 5:51pm
| What's the purpose of the wing-nutted guide? Is it to adjust the handclutch position so it'll kick out easy? |
Posted By: Osage_Orange
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2010 at 8:57am
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I'm going to try to make one. Looks like 5/16 or 3/8 steel. Am I close?
------------- Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it? |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2010 at 9:03am
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John, it is obvious that the arm is adjustable. I have never touched the adjustment. I have not been able to find a manual that describes its operation but I'm assuming that it might be to compensate for clutch wear and/or allow some discretion as to how much of a "jolt" you want to subject your equipment to.
I have never plowed much with the WD but I have "snapped" the clutch a few times when "ditching" with the back blade. I have also "snapped" the clutch several times when pulling stumps.
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Posted By: John In.
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2010 at 1:46pm
| John & Brian, If you look at the first pic you can see the stapcoupler pin, when plowing , and you hit a ROCK the plow stops but the tractor keeps going, the big spring contracts and the pin hits the tab (that piece of metal to the left of the pin ) which knocks the hand clutch out and stops forward movement of the tractor. You can adjust it with the thumbscrew by loosening it and turning the guide. HTH .John |
Posted By: Brian G. NY
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2010 at 3:07pm
| BTW, this tractor origiunally had the pin-hitch with the clutch "kickout". Only after I got the snapcoupler back blade, did I replace the pin-hitch with the snap coupler bell. |