Alice Refinements

[chieffan]

Give you a wrench and you don't stop till there are no more nuts to turn ! How much more lift with that 3/8" cylinder length give you?

As welding square ends to round stock, I keep an old grinding wheel around the has both sided rounded off and use that to round out square to fit the rouenc stock. Less chance of a hollow place behind the weld that way.

 

[KennyP]

Give you a wrench and you don't stop till there are no more nuts to turn ! How much more lift with that 3/8" cylinder length give you?

As welding square ends to round stock, I keep an old grinding wheel around the has both sided rounded off and use that to round out square to fit the rouenc stock. Less chance of a hollow place behind the weld that way.

I'm seeing 14" lift at the ball mounts on the 3-point. Haven't tried any weight as yet, have to see what today brings.
Good idea on the welding. I've done that before, but I had already cut these to length. Doing that would have made them too short then.

 

[SimplyRad]

Another way is to drill a hole big enough for the round stock and then cut to length.

 

[chieffan]

Your right Kenny on the length. Have to fit them first, then cut to length.

 

[KennyP]

Just for grins & giggles, I checked one of the FF's lift height. It only has 11", so I have 3" more on Alice!

 

[Sawdust]

Turned out nice real nice Kenny. Love the pic of the rear.

 

[KennyP]

Today, I adjusted the Neutral return spring. Got it right the first time! Mover her fwd/back and could shift from Hi through N to low without using the brake. Let off the pedal and she stops.

 

[Shorty]

Love it when something goes right the first time.

 

[KennyP]

Love it when something goes right the first time.

This pedal set up is Ford/Jacobsen and they can some times be a real pain to find N. You adjust one spring against another pulling the opposite way.

 

[Austen]

What a great looking, heavy duty, garden tractor.

 

[KennyP]

What a great looking, heavy duty, garden tractor.

That's how I built her! Heavy duty and ready to work. No mower, that's trivial and have too many with decks!

 

[greenb6901]

Very nice there Kenny. Good work and thanks for the pictures and details.

 

[JMS180]

nice work Kenny looks good

 

[KennyP]

Since building the 2 bottom plow, I had noticed an issue with the Neutral return being off (reverse). Once I took the plow off, no problem. So I think I have a bit of flex where I bolted the new rear end section on. I devised a new mount for the spring that goes forward that is in the new section of frame instead of in front of it. This way I shouldn't have that issue. In the first pic, the top spring was what Ford/Jacobsen used and the adjuster for it. Bottom spring is what I will use, it's still stiffer than the back spring.


Here is the attachment I made. It slides inside the 1X1 square tube (pics below).




Here I have the part slid partway in,


All the way in.


And with the spring attached to it. I can still adjust as needed.

 

[Kster526]

Well done on the project looks real good.

 

[chieffan]

My 1655 White has a tendency to want to travel backwards if it is not idled clear down. Set the brake and no problem but just jumping off to hook up a cart or wagon it kind of pain. Adjustment is so fine but the brake pedal finds the sweet spot right away so not going to mess with it and mess it up big time.

 

[KennyP]

My 1655 White has a tendency to want to travel backwards if it is not idled clear down. Set the brake and no problem but just jumping off to hook up a cart or wagon it kind of pain. Adjustment is so fine but the brake pedal finds the sweet spot right away so not going to mess with it and mess it up big time.

Not sure how the White tractors linkage worked.

 

[KennyP]

Well, I broke Alice yesterday! Back in post #2, I had made a new 'fulcrum' (8th pic). I broke the two tabs of the tube for the cylinder mount. The welds held, tube pulled apart. I have a thicker tube to make a new one from. Just gonna take a bit to fix!

 

[KennyP]

Here's pics of the carnage!

 

[Shorty]

A broken bone they tell me, like an arm bone, will be stronger after healing. Heal fast Alice!