The modern gas tractor, its construction, utility, operation and repair: a practical treatise defining every branch of up-to-date gas tractor engineering, driving and maintenance in a non-technical manner. Considers fully all types of power plants and their components, methods of drive and speed changing mechanisms. Describes design and construction as well as practical application of tractors in the field (1919)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York : Scientific American Pub. Co. · leaf 99
the 96 The Modern Gas Tractor adhesion between the driving wheels of the tractor andthe surface over which they are moving. Under favor-able conditions where the slip is very slight, the draw-bar horse-power of a well-designed gas tractor wouldbe about 3^ of the actual brake horse-power. It willnot… … Fig. 22.—The Kennerson Traction Dynamometer, an Efficientand Simple Instrument for Measuring Draft. The drawbar pull of a tractor is determined by meansof some form of traction dynamometer, such as shownat Fig. 22. This instrument is placed between thesource of power or drawbar of the tractor and…
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