<aside> 💡 Three difficult to obtain papers on the design and performance of front and rear tractor mounted three-point linkages. —Ed.
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1. F. M. Inns. Some design and operational aspects of 3-link implement attachment systems. Agricultural Engineer, Winter 1985
By permission of the copyright holders The Institution of Agricultural Engineers, UK:
2. Dr. Alan Reece published in 1956, in Farm Mechanization, a series of three articles on “The Effect of Implements on Tractor Performance.”
Although the copy quality here is low, they provide very useful background and supporting information to Frank Inns’ paper and to this area of the analysis of tractor and implement behaviour. The three parts are included in the pdf:
Reece 1956 Tractor Implement Effects.pdf
3. Paul Hemingway and Thomas Copland. Aspects of Tractor Front Linkages. Agricultural Engineer, Winter, 1989**.
By permission of the copyright holders The Institution of Agricultural Engineers, UK
In the late 1980s there was a lot of interest in the use of front linkages to interface field-ground engaging implements to tractors, including front mounted ploughs. This paper build on the work of the previous two papers: