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Jockey Arch
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:31 pm
by Rudi
K, seeing as I am in the learnin mode,
Can someone tell me exactly what a Jockey Arch is used for
The Cub-144 Cultivator has one. It appears to be used to stiffen the rear tool bars for work in really heavy soil. Is that correct?
Thanks
Re: Jockey Arch
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:28 pm
by Ron L
Rudi wrote:K, seeing as I am in the learnin mode,
Can someone tell me exactly what a Jockey Arch is used for
I got that stuff in Korea off a toilet seat back in the 60's !!
OOPS... scuse me. Read it wrong.
Yeah, I'd like to also know. Don't have that with my 144.........
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:27 pm
by Jim Becker
The arch is a way for the rear bars to provide some lateral support to each other. It isn't seen very often. They typically were used with the longer rear bars that carried multiple standrads.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:01 am
by Rudi
Thanks Jim. I figured if anybody know you did... they seem pretty rare. No one in this neck of the woods has ever seen one from what I can tell.
Ron:
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:37 am
by Bigdog
As I recall, the 2 row cultivators we had for our H & M had an arch on the rear arms.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:52 am
by Jim Becker
On most of the 2+ row cultivators, the jockey arch provided the place to attach the pressure rod for the center section. So it was pretty common on the bigger tractors.