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Hello,

I'm thinking about building an articulated tractor with a backhoe, and possibly a 6 way blade on the front. I'm still in the planning stages. Soon to be followed by the hoarding of parts stage.

My question is - Can I run two 1 ton axles, with dual wheels on it, with both axles facing toward the front, with hydraulic motors powering the yoke directly?

The differential gears are 3.31:1, so I'll need to figure out a motor to give me plenty of torque with enough speed to get around.

Thanks for looking!

Tim That should be a fun project. Is that a hydrostatic drive pump on your engine? Your plan to use 2 hyd motors will certainly work. Depends a lot on what speed range you want for your tractor. If you size the motors to have enough torque to spin the wheels.then your top speed may be slower than you want. You can hook the motors in series or parallel or have it changeable for two speed ranges.

I built an articulated hydrostatic garden tractor. I turned the front axle around and hooked the 2 axles together with a drive shaft. I used a chain drive from the hyd motor to a sprocket on the rear pinion flange. On a larger tractor you could have a transmission for multiple speed ranges with this setup. Mine has plenty of torque to spin the wheels, but top speed is only about 6 mph, maybe not enough for a bigger tractor. I used a Vickers hydrostatic transmission pump. Lots of things for you to figure out, but that's the fun of building things.