Good points all. I like Mike's idea of chain drive, seems reasonable. Great uncle Reg swore it was in the neighborhood of 40mph but I don't think the road was paved in those days so I'm already discounting significantly. The Super M has a top speed of 16mph in 5th and its a helluva ride even at that speed. The Regular with narrow tires and simpler steering (think 2 big gears) and hand brakes would have been a real handful even at 20mph. Could be we're talking about 10mph which would still be twice stock.
I should have asked how long it took to get to town. Its about 5 miles, that would have given me a better benchmark. Sadly anybody who really remembered the thing is deceased. My grandmother is still going (91 last month) but doesn't really remember the contraption. -Curt Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:15:47 -0600 From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Volvo? now fast tractors Message-ID: <20121120191547.54594f5a.fmi...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Curt Raymond wrote: > Hmm, I'd doubt 37" tires. Maybe it was the rear axle of the > wagon and there was a transmission involved... Actually now > that I think of it Dad might have mentioned something about > that. He claims to have seen the rig years later before it was > sent off for scrap but never saw it in action. It's pretty rare for a transmission to be overdrive, especially at that time period - so typically it would only decrease the road speed. Or maybe the PTO could turn faster than 540 RPM. Or maybe the differential had a ratio of 2.4:1 Or maybe it just _felt_ like 20 MPH! -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
