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Electric brakes with a tractor?
I'll be pulling around a 5000 lb. chipper with my JD 4310 tractor and I was thinking it would be good to take advantage of the electric brakes on the chipper. I don't know anything about how electric brakes work. Is there some sort of controller I could use on the tractor to activate the electric brakes on the chipper?
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
Thanks Art & Murf! I don't often use the tractor brakes since the HST braking works fine. But with a heavy trailer pushing me maybe I'll need to use the brakes more often. If the HST braking works adequately with the trailer maybe the brake light all-on method will be all I need.
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
Thanks again Murf. Those are good points and the idea of a foot switch is a good one. I've burnt up a few circuits in my life and now make a practice of using relays when switching this kind of stuff.
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
Good info Chief! I didn't know about that kit, but I'll order the kit through JD Parts right away. If it saves me an hour or two of screwing around it will be worth it.
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
That part number is showing as obsolete with none in stock. I ordered it anyway to see what happens.
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
Thanks guys. That's all good information. I'd guess the 4310 with me on it weighs somewhere around 6000 lbs and the chipper is supposed to be about 5000 lbs so in that regard I'm in decent shape. I'll have to check the JD manual on towing capacity though. How do surge brakes work? If I could interface those with the electric brakes on the trailer it would be a very clean solution.
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Electric brakes with a tractor?
Thanks for the explanation everyone. It sounds like it would be a big PIA to replace the existing electric brakes with surge brakes, unless there is some easy conversion kit available somewhere.
plots1, I figured the weight like this. Tractor 2900 lbs (dry weight) + 150 lbs for fluids + 1200 lbs for loaded tires (that's what tire guy told me) + 1500 lbs for loader with grapple + 260 lbs for me (you weren't far off Chief!) which adds up to a bit more than 6000 lbs. I question the tire weight, though, and will have to research that.
Chief, according to the Bandit specs the 4-cylinder version of this chipper weighs between 4400 and 4600 lbs depending on frame size.
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