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Electric brakes with a tractor
Ken,
Deere sells a 7-Pin Electrical Outlet Socket Kit under part number LVB25364 for $46.00. I use a the same kind of connector plug for my trailer when I pull it with the truck. Deere's kits usually come with everything you need to hook it right up and you can buy and adaptor plug for your chipper trailer if it does not come equipped with the 7 pin plug connector. Do you think this will work?
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Ken, let me know if you can't find the kit with your deal and I can get Ricky to work on it. A lot of parts are listed as obsolete but they are still in the system. The rental upgrade kit is listed as obsolete too but they still sell them.
The other thing is, look in your operator's manual. I recently had to tow my boat to the bottom of my driveway hill which is pretty steep. The boat and trailer weight at least 8,000 lbs. and probably more. I was afraid to try it with the 4410 as I feared the boat would push the tractor down the hill uncontrollably. I checked the manual and it stated that the tractor was capable of towing and braking 8,000 lbs. I decided to give it a try and I figure my emergency brake device would be dropping the FEL bucket into the ground and dig it in if worst came to worst. I put the tractor in 4WD and A range and very slowly took the boat down the hill. It handled the boat and the hill like it was not even there. Mind you I used the 3 pt. hitch trailer hitch in my profile pics and carried the trailer tongue as low to the ground as was possible. Worked out real well and saved my a BUNCH of hastle hooking up the truck to the boat. The boat trailer had surge brakes which seemed to work well in concert with the tractor. Good call on Mark's part for pointing that out. The surge brakes are usually much cheaper and MUCH easier to maintain. The issue I think you will run into with electric brakes on your tractor is......where and how will you mount and wire the brake controller???? Surge brakes would be the best and easiest route to take and use the 7 pin plug kit for brake lights if you have them. Just a few thoughts I figured I would throw out there before the CRS fades them away. ;o)
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With a tractor weight around 2900 lbs. FEL est. 1,500 lbs. (with grapple), filled rear tires est. 500 lbs., I-Match (with trailer hitch) est. 75 lbs., operator 250 lbs. (sorry if I over estimated Ken!) ;o) Estimated weight of about 5225 lbs. total.
I think the surge brakes would be the way to go here. They worked just fine holding the boat back off the tractor going down hill for me. They just don't work instantaneously like electric brakes do. You also won't have to mess with a brake controller. The 7 pin plug kit should be a direct bolt on and provide break lights and turn signals. Maybe I am not up to speed on what a chipper weighs but I would think a chipper on a trailer would not weigh near 5,000 lbs. I would think more like 3,500 lbs. would be more in the neighborhood.
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