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
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