Trip rope clip

What exactly is the Trip Rope Clip on the bottom of a Cub seat for?

The trip rope

rope for trip plow, pull disk, anhydrous applicator, anything that takes a rope to make it work.

OK, I'll bite.

What is the trip rope for?

Thanks!

(quoted from post at 14:38:03 02/16/10) OK, I'll bite.

What is the trip rope for?

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To trip the implement...duh.

Before the world of hyd implements many were lifted with a trip mech. (Exhaust lift as well as manual and some others were around) Look it up on the internets. You used the clip so when the implement hit a rock and the rock hitch came undone you didn't fall on the ground when it ripped your seat spring out.

ok i have to ask what do they look like?????i've seen'm for older johndeere but not for ihc i have a H and a plow&disc i just use a soft wire and hook it t o the seat so it "could come a part if needed" i make a loop so the rope can brake the ring of wire

The other fellas mention a trip rope. It was used to raise and lower a trailing implement, most usually a plow, so you wanted it handy. Thus the clip to hold it at the back of the seat. If you hit a rock or snag so that the hitch on the plow itself tripped and broke away from the tractor, so that the tractor pulled away from the plow, the one end of the rope was going to stay tied to the plow. You didn't want the other end of the rope actually fast to the tractor -- the clip is made so that the tension on the rope will pull it out of the clip and not rip the seat and you off the tractor.

As for design . . . I make mine to look like Grandpa's did. Couldn't say if it's an original design or somethin' he came up with. Hard to describe. Imagine a figure-8 with two tails at the bottom. I use #9 wire, but any wire stiff or heavy enough that it doesn't open up under just the weight of the rope is fine. The anchor loop on the tractor goes through the upper loop of the figure 8. The lower loop of the figure 8 is wide enough that the rope can move easily in it, but small enough that a knot on the end of the rope will keep it from falling out. at the bottom are the "tails." Picture the tails on those magnetic ribbons (yellow for our troops, pink for breast cancer awareness, red,white and blue . . .) you see on cars. On your clip, those extend off the bottom of the figure eight enough so that you have enough of a handle to twist it to help put the rope into the center loop before you start out or after it has pulled out.

Make your figure 8 flat by just crossing the wires one way and then the other to fashion the loops and leave yourself a tail on each end. Rig it up and give it a yank to make sure it will release, but it's pretty foolproof.

Like this:
http://www.oemtractorparts.net/productcart_new/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=662&idcategory=0

You can also sit on the trip rope - just put it under your left or right gludious maximus. However, for obvious safety reasons do not position the rope in the middle!:^)

ok got it i did see them i guess i was'nt payin attention

Y'all skipped right over the important part of the question:

"on a CUB"

AFAIK, there are no trip lift implements for a CUB.

Everything is mounted.

I guess I am never to old to learn. Have one on the seat of my 450 and didn't know what it was for. Baleing wire was always my friend.

(quoted from post at 13:59:52 02/17/10) Y'all skipped right over the important part of the question:

"on a CUB"

AFAIK, there are no trip lift implements for a CUB.

Everything is mounted.

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Exactly!!

When I was growin" up on the farm (in central N.J.) in the 40s, we had a high-tech solution for almost anything. We called it "bale wire." Before twine-tying balers became popular, balers used a heavy wire, mostly manually-fed (there may have been a wire-tying type, but this is so long ago now that I can't recall if this is true). The trend was towards twine, because pieces of wire sometimes got mixed in with the hay, and this does not seem to sit well in a cow's stomach). The "bale wire" (s'pozed to be "baling wire," but we didn't know no diff'rent) was all over the farm--some in bundles for the next round of baling, and lots and lots of it that came off the bales when they were opened. The farm "shop" (as in "junk shop")had loops of it hanging all over the walls. Seemed like there wasn't anything you couldn't fix with bale wire. You could patch up a fence. You could make a loop to attach a gate to a post. You could hang tools made from bale wire hooks. AND.....here we get down to the really high-tech part.....you could make a loop to attach the plow trip-rope to the tractor seat. If the plow ever came loose from the tractor, the loop opened and the rope and the plow stayed behind.
My father's favorite little joke was something like, "Well, it's broke, guess we gotta get out the bale wire."
A word about the plow trip-rope and the lift mechanism. As far as I know, there were only two ways to raise and lower a plow before hydraulics came along. Horse-drawn plows were lifted with levers, I believe (seen 'em, never used one). Tractor-drawn plows at some point in their history were given a clever lifting mechanism that involved hooking the end of a lever in notches around the inside of a drum attached to the left wheel. One half revolution of the wheel lifted the plow. A latch inside the lift box kept the plow up. To drop the plow, you gave a yank on the rope, which unlatched the axle and let the plow drop. Very hard to describe, but easy to understand if you've ever seen one. I used a Little Genius and a Little Wonder on my father's place for maybe 20 years all together. The lifts never failed. I can see these things as clear as day, but I can't seem to describe them any better than this.

I believe there was one inplement built for a cub that used a rope, though not exactly a trip rope. The disc harrow for a cub used a rope to change the angle of the disc. You pulled the rope while backing, then released the rope pulling forward to increase the disc angle. By pulling the rope and driving forward the angle of the disc returned to straight.
Joe

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(quoted from post at 13:59:52 02/17/10) Y'all skipped right over the important part of the question:

"on a CUB"

AFAIK, there are no trip lift implements for a CUB.

Everything is mounted.

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Exactly!!

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There were a few trip lift mounted implements for some model tractors, but I don't know of any that required a trip rope to reach the lever. Trip ropes were used with pull-behind implements. The Cub did have a drawbar.

(quoted from post at 10:50:34 02/17/10)
A word about the plow trip-rope and the lift mechanism. . . The lifts never failed.

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. . . unless the wheel decided to loose traction and slide.

I still use a rope to lift my grain drill and my old IH planter....I tie the end of the rope to a hitch pin and it will pop on n off the seat spring...dont really need it with the planter or drill but was needed when I used to use trip plows.....dont miss that....shot wire worked good too..

The cub had a 23A pull type disk harrow that used a rope to pull the latch for changing the angle of the disks. The bracket under the seat was for the rope.