Just sharin'

I already posted this on the IH side, but just wanted to share here also.

This is the fix to keep the old Farmalls (and some other makes) from breaking in two while doing heavy work under a loader.

Have a good one,

Allan

If you stop and think about it, it is a wonder that all the letter series tractors didn't just up and break immediately. That torque tube is, in all reality, just "a box which is open at the bottom".. Then, we go and throw a load right across it's weakest point. Hmmmmm, no wonder they break! :>)

Farmhand's cure for this was a box frame made from 4"x3/8" angle iron running clear up ahead of the tube. Kind of overkill, but it stopped the M's splittin' in two when under those big F-10s and their 12x14' hay baskets.

Thanks for the hollar,

Allan

Naw, that old idea wasn't mine and anyway, it's just a common sense fix that's been around for 50 some years. :>)

Allan

I've built these things out of rods, flat iron and also, sometimes with just plain old angle iron.

Anything to give that torque tube some strength.

Allan

Boy! Ya might have caught me! Didn't think anyone was watchin'. :>)

Just tryin' to keep this from happening to anyone else.

Allan