Limited Chains

[Cooter143]

Down below on the "wrong top link" post, several pictures showed limiter chains on the 3pt setup for mowers. Can someone explain that to me? Is that to take pressure off the Hyds at mowing height?

 

[Tiger Joe]

(quoted from post at 00:45:02 03/23/16) Down below on the "wrong top link" post, several pictures showed limiter chains on the 3pt setup for mowers. Can someone explain that to me? Is that to take pressure off the Hyds at mowing height?

yes you set your front mower height with the chains so your lift arms don't have to hold the mower up all the time.

 

[64frd4000ind]

It also helps with 9N/2N where it is harder to maintain cut height with no position control.

We use the chains all the time with dad's 2N, but not so much with my 4000, just a difference in the hyd setup.

 

[R Geiger]

A lot easier to get the right mower height and don't have to mess with the control handle all the time. Love them

 

[old]

The way those chains work is that you can lower the 3 point all the way but the chains will hold what ever you have on the 3 point so a set point so it will if say brush hogging cut at the same set height no matter how the 3 point maybe acting. On some tractors it is very hard to keep the 3 point at a set height and when that happens you cutting changes all the time

 

[Caryc]

One of the pictures you're referring to is my 8N. It's true that an 8N has position control and will hold the mower at the height you set it at but I use the limiter chains anyway.

I like that I can lower the quadrant control all the way and the hydraulics don't have to try to hold the mower at the same height all the time. The chains do that job. Just makes sense to me.