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dfwallis
Orange Level Joined: 09 Mar 2023 Location: DFW Points: 631 |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2024 at 1:52pm |
Not comprehensive and not always accurate but still interesting:
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1952 CA13092
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AllisFreak MN
Orange Level Access Joined: 07 Dec 2009 Location: Minnesota Points: 1547 |
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Had to chuckle, the guy has a shed full of Deere's, wearing an IH stocking cap and doing a video about A-C snap couplers.
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'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2
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HudCo
Orange Level Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Location: Plymouth Utah Points: 3566 |
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good little video
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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3752 |
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Watched this, pretty good. I did leave a comment about the 52 plow at the 2:47 mark. It's a pin-hitch plow that got the farmer 'conversion' to snap-coupler. The one where you just use the original lift links. I harp on this when I see it but no one else seems to care. Those latches are there so that the implement can uncouple in a failure!
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Brian G. NY
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: 12194 Points: 2242 |
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If that even really works, I don't believe that was the main intent when the snap coupler system was designed. . Watch any A-C video about snap couplers and you will see the feaure touted by them was the coupling and uncoupling of attachments without leaving the tractor's seat.
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Lon(MN)
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Elk River,MN Points: 1976 |
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While I was plowing the eye broke. Latches opened and the plow stayed in the ground. The hose to the tail wheel got a little longer.
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http://lonsallischalmers.com
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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3752 |
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Brian, My point is that with the pin-hitch style lift links, it WILL NOT STAY IN THE GROUND!! It's going to flip around and hit the operator in the back. Lon has first hand experience with this. There are other factors involved; How worn out is the hitch in general and the spring in specific? I've plowed with a 45 and snap-coupler plow quite a bit. Hit some pretty big rocks too. Never uncoupled the plow yet. Maybe I should just forget about this but it gives the hitch a black eye that I don't think it deserves. Kind of like gear-jumping.
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DrAllis
Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Points: 20582 |
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I've plowed with both and feel the snap-coupler is superior to any 3pt hitch on a plow. The fact that the plow can "free-swing" is a huge factor in rocky ground. Far less damage done to a plow if it can move to the side when coming in contact with a rock. Hitching and unhitching is far easier (for most) with snap-coupler. True draft sensing allows for more types of implements to be used too versus top-link sensing keeps you at fully mounted imps only.
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TramwayGuy
Orange Level Access Joined: 19 Jan 2010 Location: Northern NY Points: 11445 |
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“..Brian, My point is that with the pin-hitch style lift links, it WILL NOT STAY IN THE GROUND!! It's going to flip around and hit the operator in the back. Lon has first hand experience with this.”
Same thing happened to my Dad back in the ‘60s. Pin worked it’s way out and the plow flipped exactly like that. |
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HudCo
Orange Level Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Location: Plymouth Utah Points: 3566 |
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i had a snap coupler come uncoupled with a two bottom rollover and it never uncoupled the lift latches, i caught it fast enought that when the front of the hitch whent in the ground and the plow stood staight in the air and just about to get me and the seat. scared me enought i got another tractor to pull the plow back down i didnt dare try to back up, all due to a broken spring i check my bell very regular now
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GSTROM99
Silver Level Joined: 12 Dec 2020 Location: Greene, IA Points: 244 |
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Good find, very interesting and lots of cool shots of ads.
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Lonn
Orange Level Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Location: Назарово,Russia Points: 29781 |
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Run a safety chain..... of course I don't practice what I preach. I never heard of the problem until hearing about it on this forum many years ago.
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