Garden Tractor Pulling Tips pt1

all right so we're here at the back of my panzer and uh i've been pulling with this for a couple years now been uh before that i was pulling my simplicity before that i tried making an mtd which didn't figure out too well so over the years i've been learning a couple little tricks here and there could be wrong but this is my experience and my uh what i've learned nobody taught taught me this is all basically self-taught and uh just getting out there learning what works what doesn't um a lot of people don't talk about it i don't know if it's secrets they don't want to tell people there are secrets me personally i like to see a lot more people getting into this because it is uh it's garden tractors it's an entry level it's good for the kids and uh parents getting into it to help the kids out i don't want the kids getting discouraged i want them to keep pulling keep going back and like i said i've been doing it for a couple years i enjoy it my kids are getting old now so they're getting out of it but i still do it and uh yeah i just like to see more kids get involved and because some of the uh guys been doing it for a long time they're winning the polls because they're sticking with it and they learned a few things along the way and so make a couple videos on what i've learned and hopefully you can apply them to your tractor and go out there and win some pulls so today's video we're going to be talking about the hitch it's a part of the tractor that gets overlooked a lot people throw a hitch on there at the height that their rules say and they don't put much thought into it so hitches are actually as almost important as weights because if you put your hitch in the wrong place you have the wrong height you can uh cause the tractor to wheelies and um or take away from the uh the weight transfer that you want and um that's negatively impacts how you pull so it's not all about the height of the hitch it's also where it is located on the tractor now this one here i'm still using the stock uh hitch and this is where you you know put a trailer on or whatever but this is uh i believe they use that for a sleeve hitch or the implements that went with this tractor originally so i'm still using this however i used to have a d-ring and come down the back here all right what that did was it pushed my hitch back all right so a lot of you clubs they have a rule of how long the chain is going to be whether it's a stone boat or a transfer slip the chain's a certain length and that's important because the shorter the length of chain the more down force you have in your tractor and depending on where your hitch is you can cause the track of the wheelie so a lot of the length of the chain is safety reasons the longer the chain the less impact it's going to have on the tractor right so it's not going to cause the wheelie so they do that for safety reasons but at the same time you got to use that to your advantage all right the further back your hitch is to your axle in essence the longer the chain and you don't get that weight transfer to your tires for traction so what you do is you try to get that hitch as close to your axle as you can and the highest level that your rules allow you in your club right they don't have rules that i'm aware of for where your hitch has to be now in a stock tractor poles you to use a stock hitch so you can't really modify it that much but i don't pull in stock classes this is modified i got weights on it and everything else is not and i pull in heavy classes 11 and 14 100 pound classes so i use this which is just a um receiver pin from a truck hitch it's all it is goes through there i drilled the pin put pins on both sides and i hooked the chain right onto that it gets as close as i could to the rear end now down the road i may turn around and cut these off and move them closer to my axle and get as close as i can right now that's that's been working so i've been leaving alone if i start losing or need something i i had the room to adjust it i could move it in so the closer you get it to your axle if you think about the chain your axe is up here right so the chain's down here the further away from your axle technically that it's a longer chain right so if you move that hitch closer to your axle you get that sled whether it's transfer sled or stone boat get it closer to your tractor once you start pulling in the angle of that chain what it's going to do is it's going to put the weight on your tractor and it's going to push the back of the tractor down and that's when you got to compensate with weights front and back or whatever it might be but you will start pulling better if that is closer to your axle another side note too if you're pulling with your tractor and you notice it's starting to steer right or left that could be a number of things your your weights could be off balanced you know you have more weight on one side than the other you you know you can shift it um there could be tire pressure that'll be another video well your tire pressure could be off um but one of the main reasons that happens is like me i'm using a pin and not a d-ring right so what that allows is for the chain to slide back and forth on my pin right so right now it's got a straight pin on there i don't have anything to prevent that so down the road i'm going to look into possibly bending that pin so that the chain will fit in the into the bend and it won't go back and forth but as as of right now that pin i pull that pin out i use my tractors for other than just pulling i pull this pin out i'll put a receiver hitch in there i'll pull a trailer around my yard um so having this pin the accessibility of having a pin to come out with no bend in it is beneficial to me so the little the little i lose in having a steer is it's good because i go i come back home i use my tractors for other things so so yeah you want that chain to be in the center of your tractor off to one side it's going to put that weight on this side and it's going to steer the tractor to that side because it's pulling in that side makes sense so that's why a lot of guys will run the d-ring so i wanted to get that as close as front as i could so maybe what i'll do is i'll take this this these brackets i'll move them closer get as close to that axle as i can and maybe i'll put a d-ring in there i still have the accessibility to pull the pin out when i need to but i'll use a d-ring to hold that chain straight on the tractor so that's about it for the hitch but you gotta like i said don't overlook your hitch your hitch is very important so with that being said look forward to the next videos i will uh i got plans for probably about another three or four videos possibly more and uh

Channel: Geared 4 Torque

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Keywords: garden, tractor, pulling, tips, Pennsylvania panzer, truck, hitch, stone boat, transfer sled, pull, pulls, wheelie, wheelies, wheel horse, simplicity, build, modify, stock

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Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 26 2020