mistletoad, You don't need to take any pictures for me. Thanks a million. I set here and looked at the picture on the link you posted and it all came back to me. I just set here and drew it out and thanks to you and the Good Lord I have it now.
I have tried to remember how this thing worked for two years and beat my brain against everything and couldn't remember.
I am glad you said something about how hard it was to raise the implements because that is something else I had forgotten along with what I came up with to fix it. But I do remember now it puts a heck of a strain on you to make it work but whats best is I remember what I did to fix that problem. I still come up with some "off the wall ideas" that work but not like this one.
I took a starter off a junked pinto for an electric motor. Cut the , ,, , snout off of it and put a pulley on it. I forget the size of it but was the smallest one my BIL or I could find around the house that fit the shaft.
I built a mount to hold the motor plus two pillow block bearings that held a shaft and a pulley that was something like 12" wide. It also held a bracket that held two sets of caliber brakes from an old bicycle to hold the pulley when it was raised.
The large pulley turned a lot slower that the starter motor did.
I am still remembering how I did it.
OK, it turned the shaft that we had something like 3/16" cable wrapped around it that pulled the handle. When it was raised we simultaneously pushed the the brake lever and let go of the starter button.
Oh, we used a starter button from an old Chevy truck, like they had in the floor.
The cable just wrapped around the shaft, 3/4' or maybe it was 1" but it didn't take but a quick push of the button to raise the implement up. Now I remember That the battery in the garden tractor would run down right fast. Plus the tractor was really light on the front end when the plow ir disc was raised so I build a mount on the front of the tractor to hold a big bus battery I had in my van. We got the weight for the front and we just put the charger on the battery at night.
I'll tell you, if you ever suffer a bad concussion it makes you forget things. At least it has me. And the frigging doctors called it a mild concussion. Jerks. I hate this hospital here.
But it sure does feel nice when something comes back to you. Especially when you have beat your brain as much as I have over this.
Once again, thanks so much mistletoad. I doubt I will go with the electric for now but it sure is nice remembering what I built for it.
Plus I remember where mine went to anyway. I jerk stole it and sold it for junk. I'd bet he didn't get two bucks for it. He still has the guts to pop in here every blue moon. Next time he will pop back out in a hurry. He sure don't to come over here any time soon.
I promise I will get some pictures after I get it built and get them posted somehow.
Thanks
Dennis
