RE: (ET) Question about big GE motors

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

This one is a bit long.  I have done this, and it can be made to work.

The easy way?  Find a tiller and lift.  Bill will sell you one, and the 
cost isn't the killer, the shipping is.  I have one now, and it is the 
BETTER solution.

If you want to work hard...

I converted a Sears 32" wide tiller from a garden tractor.  Sears (and 
Ariens) used to use a separate 7 or 8 Hp (depending on year) engine on the 
rear mount tiller.  The mount was a category 0 three point hitch with a 
manual lift.  I took the back frame from a Sears 12Hp tractor, and 
mounted/braced a setup to fit 1/4" or 5/16" plates that slide into the 
frame.  You also need a lock to keep it in place.  The bad thing was the 
tiller was 3' behind the back axle, and the lift handle was almost out of 
reach.  I needed weight on the front just to steer; I ended up leaving the 
mower deck on to work.  So imagine the deck, tractor and tiller all at 
once; I think the rig was 12 or 13' long!  I had to come up with a height 
adjustment too; I used an adjustable block on the hitch.  I left the 8HP 
engine in place.  It worked.  I could have used a snow-blower motor and 
gotten away with it, but it really was a bit ugly.  The positive thing was 
I can now mount anything with a category 0 hit!
ch on the ET.  You are better off with a ET tiller.

Larry Elie


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Zach [mailto:czach aaas org]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 7:59 PM
To: Elec-trak
Subject: (ET) Question about big GE motors


Got a question:

My dad is finally going to get rid of his old YTV tractor, and take my
Craftsman. One of the things he had on the YTV was a massive roto-tiller
that ran via belts off the main tractor motor. It's big, it's bad...

It would probably fit on the tail end of the Elec-Trak :-)

Now, I think I could weld on some stakes to attach it to the ET's tail end.
I might also be able to weld on a platform for a nice big motor. The
question is where could I get a 36 volt high torque motor.

Question 2 is what was the rear lift option for the ET, and how did it
attach? Would it be totally insane to attach a tiller to the front of a
Elec-trak?

Anyone got a tiller for the ET? How did GE do it?

Chris