RE: (ET) rear lift

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

BTW, if anyone is using the factory rear tiller on the lift, I have an 
improvement for that too.  
It would be easier with a picture, but I will try to describe it.  This 
one will lift until the 
strap breaks... and if the switch sticks, the strap WILL BREAK.

The back lift strap should go up over a plastic bushing, down to another 
bushing on the tiller 
and back up to a pin.  The tiller was cleverly designed on a toolbar to 
allow one to move the 
tiller off-center to get closer to crops, so the lower bushing rides on a 
pin supporting the 
depth adjust chain and the plastic bushing.  If you are off center, it is 
sometimes hard to 
find the right spot where the strap doesn't get pulled to the side.

Now to get clever.  If you replace the pin on the tiller with a LONG (10" 
or so) 1/2" steel 
rod, going across TWO of the bushing gaps instead of the original one.  
The chain still goes 
on this pin too.  You can bring the strap straight around the plastic 
bushing as before, back 
up to the pin, and ADD ANOTHER PLASTIC (or brass) bushing to the pin on 
the lift.  You will 
want to add two flat washers as well beside this new bushing.  Bring the 
strap back down 
again to the new longer pin on the tiller where there is no bushing, using 
the long pin as 
the stop on the strap.  It isn't lined up perfectly, but if you were 
offsetting the tiller 
it's better than it ever was before.  This is a triple (as opposed to the 
factory double) 
block and tackle arrangement, and like I said will easily lift anything 
the strap can take.  
I have mounted a small planter on the tiller, and it picks that up too.  
It is a little bit 
slower, but is worth it.

Now if that switch would just stop sticking....  the motor barely slows 
before the strap breaks!

Larry Elie


-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of neil
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:49 AM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: (ET) rear lift


Agree, Larry, that rear lift is not a good design, reworked mine a few 
times, is a real grunt with the tiller.

Just thinking weirdly, how about using one of those screw type bumper 
jacks and triving it with a good reduction ( like a worm drive)  ?

wombat  _ BTW, I run e20 wheels on my 12, they stick out a bit but 
usually the belt slips before the tires.

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