Posted by Athol Carr on October 02, 2008 at 14:11:47 from (132.181.71.211):
In Reply to: Flipping Fordson posted by Judy Wearing on October 02, 2008 at 11:31:27:
The early Fordson's were very light on the front end, so only a small counterweight to tipping backwards, the drawbar was attached to the back of the differential housing, so only little leverage of the pull on the drawbar to stop the front rising when compared with tractors where the drawbar was located well below the rear axle. They had a worm drive to the differential so lots of leverage in transforming engine power to overturning moment about back axle (maybe the gear reductions on other tractors will have a similar efect). The later Fordon's had rear fenders which extended well behind the tractor (with tool boxes inside) in an endeavour to prevent full overturning. The Fordon had the other problem with the drawbar in that it was located well ahead of the back of the rear wheels so that on sharp turns it was possible to get something like the beam drawing a set of harrows picked up by the rear wheel lugs and carried up over the operator. The early Fordoson tractor had no fenders. With respect to tipping sideways, a wide front is no different from a narrow front end until the wide front axle meets some part of the tractor frame when the distance out to the offset front wheels starts to come into play. Up to that point the wide front is still a pivot, like a narrow front, the only difference is the pivot point is a little higher, at the axle pivot point, not on the ground as it is in narrow front.
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