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[Jeff Tickner <jefft softlanding com>]

One of my planned uses for my E15 (if
I ever finish it) is to use it to haul cordwood out my woods and I'm wondering
how the traction will be. My only experience is pulling a 4x8 trailer full
of cordwood on a rutted, snowy dirt road and when the trailer got hung
up the front of the tractor would lift, I should have had the snowblower
on there as a counter weight. But what about if it was muddy?

Since it appears that a locking diff
is not an option I had 2 ideas. I have several spare transaxles and a couple
extra drive motors. the transaxles have the brakes still on them. 

Since I'll have an Alltrax with a dash
pot, what about going with cutting brakes, that is a brake assembly on
each axle, with a pedal on each side. That would give you the steering
effect and you could also brake a wheel that has lost traction?

 The other idea is even more unlikely
for me to ever do with my lack of time and mechanical skill, but... seems
like it would solve both traction and the tractor nose coming up. What
about a powered trailer? If I put a motor and transaxle under a trailer
would I just fry my Alltrax if I tried to feed both motors from the one
controller?

The pushers I've seen in the past are
just for pushing
http://www.mrsharkey.com/pusher.htm
http://www.jstraubel.com/EVpusher/EVpusher2.htm
and don't seem to have an issue with
a normal single point trailer ball hookup.

Jeff Tickner
Technical Support
800-545-9485, Ext 536
SoftLanding Systems