Came up with a lift idea. What are your thoughts.
 

Well I was thinking about this today while in safety training for work (5th time ive taken the OSHA 10) What if you did the following

What if I made a small bracket that bolted onto the top 2 bolts on the rear dif cover and connected a actuator from there to the brinly adapter. You would have to use non floating lift straps but what should happen is the actuator moves up and that pushes the top link up by the lift straps. That in turn would move the link between the top link and the lift arm. You would just have to put the lift arm in float mode. That would also make it so it could lift and lower front implements.

It was just a day dream brain storm so maybe you guys could let me know if this would work or not. Here are a couple pictures showing what I mean.

Red line would be where the bracket would go, blue line would be the actuator.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...psd5bf2d42.jpg

Blue line on this is the actuator. I am assuming i could weld a flat bar connecting the lift tab to the two arms of the adapter to mount a bracket to on this side.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...psfa0e4ce9.jpg

so you kinda thinking something like this...

I’m playing with the idea of using a small electric winch mounted at the rear of the tractor with the cable running forward to the lift handle. The winch would pull the handle back to lift the rear attachments. Only in the thinking stage at this point but Harbor Freight has a 2000 lb winch on sale for around $60.00 :bigthink:

I used a electric actuator for the rear blade of my old 782 mainly so it.can operate independantly of Tue.front or.mid attachments

the winch would have to pull the bottom of the handle forward to move the attachments up. You would need it in front of the rockshaft or run a pulley and go past the rockshaft and come back to it and connect it.

Last time I checked you pull the lift handle back to raise the deck. :bigthink:

Now we know why you had to take the osha test 5 times.

yes you pull the lift handle, which makes the bottom of the lift handle move towards the front of the tractor, if you pull on the lift handle from underneath the tractor its going to push the top of the handle forward.

Whats going to happen when you pull on the blue line shown in this picture smart guys. Thats the only way i can see a winch being mounted under the tractor moving the lift arm.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...psfe13bdba.png

Winch (in red) would go on top at rear. Cable along side the frame tunnel.

makes sense, I just can't figure out how that would be routed to work. There isn't much room

Nothing in the way on this one.

When I mounted my Craftsman johnny bucket to my 1811 the length of the moment arm made a BIG difference in how much power the lift had. I you attach that winch to that short of a handle you will burn out the winch most likely. I'm not saying it won't work but it won't have much strength to do much except to position something with no load on it. It might make more sense to use the winch as a lift vertically attached to the rear of the tractor and let gravity do the downward movement. That way if you double sheaved it it would have a lot lift of power but no down power. I made an electrically operated dump rear bed on my old golf cart using one of the HF $49 winches and it worked great. The bed was about 55% over center so that the cable of the winch held the bed level and when I useed the hhand remote to lower it then it would go to the full dump position. One click of the button and back up it came. The trick was having the dump bed be 55%past the CG instead of 50/50 which would have made the load the deciding factor as to whether it would dump or not. of the bed otherwise it would not have dumped :beerchug

Rudy
If you think about the 147 with the electric lift I doubt that the actuator had 2000 lbs. of force. Like I said this is a maybe project, not even sure I will do it at this point because I don’t have a need for a tractor with a lift. If I do I would probably set it up with a 2 or 3 part line just to slow the speed of the lift down and that would double or triple the pull from the winch.

Sam Mac,


Is that a 100 super build? I am very interested!

Sorry for the hijack!



Randy

No problem this thread got hijacked long before your post

Vartz
I’m not trying to hijack this thread, sorry if that’s what you thought. I think your idea would work as you posted.

Randy
No it’s not a Super 100 this is the thread for the build.
http://www.onlycubcadets.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=20585
Just a play toy.