Left hand feed implements.
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Topic: Left hand feed implements.
Posted By: exSW
Subject: Left hand feed implements.
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 7:22pm
| What was AC's reasons for building combines,rotobalers and other equipment that had left handed pickups? |
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 8:51pm
| Could it be because binders were left-hand cut, so they just kept building things that way? |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 9:11pm
| The left side works better for me with hyd and hand clutch on all crop(WD45). Yes you set crooked in the seat but it wouldn't work in reverse. |
Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 7:37am
Because "right side" was already taken?   |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 7:44am
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When you sit on the right side of the tractor, like the WC, it's easier to turn to look to the left, than it is to look right. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 9:22am
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Why didn't they make sickle bar mowers cutter bars be on the left side? |
Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 1:42pm
Road frontage. You'd be against traffic. Municipalities used to use sickle bars to mow along the public road ROW.
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Gary Burnett wrote:Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 2:30pm
The corn binders I'm familiar with were right hand. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 2:42pm
| I guess the geographical difference explains why I've never seen a corn binder in person. I had grain binders in mind. |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 4:38pm
| Round balers were on the opposite side because they worked better with the hand clutch. After baling 10's of thousands of bales with a round baler, I bought both an IHC and Deere square baler. I hated using them. Did the AC small square balers have the pickup on the same side as the Deere/IHC? |
Posted By: ranger43
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2019 at 8:09pm
| I ask my neighbors this question all the time. They have 5 roto balers and I have 1. They still bale around 4-5000 small rounds a year use to routinely due 15000. In any case it never made any sense to me to have it on the left side. I grew up on WD's and I don't care what people say it would be a hell of a lot easier to look over my right shoulder for the pick-up on the roto. I heard one argument from someone well you its because when you get off the tractor on the left side you are there to work on the feeder. that makes no sense because you get on the WD and 45's from the back of the tractor. Never heard a valid reason. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 10:02am
I doubt the hand clutch had anything to do with it, since the roto baler was in production before there was a hand clutch or a WD. Allis square balers were right side pick up like other makes of the period. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 7:17pm
| I would guess that back then, right or left hand as a standard hadn't really been established yet, so companies were still dabbling with what worked better. I have no qualms about my roto baler feeder being on the left side. darrel |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 9:21pm
There might be some validity to that point when you really think about it. When you get off of a tractor on the left, most people would prefer to walk straight back to the implement to address any issues simply because it is easier that way. With right hand feed implements, the operator either has to walk around the front of the tractor or step over the pto shaft at the rear to get to the feeder unit on the right. Even with a "W" series tractor or any other brand of that same vintage for that matter since most were rear mount/dismount back then, you dismount to the left of the pto shaft so the above argument is still valid. As an AC enthusiast, I'd like to think that AC was thinking ahead concerning farmer safety but that would be hard to prove unless some of those engineers are still around. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |