Baur sled August 19, 2023 01:30PM
How can a sled be used at a grand national pull and the kill switch on the sled does not work
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Re: Baur sled August 19, 2023 01:40PM
A mini had a rough ride at b g & was knocked out cold . The sled operator had to leave the cab and walk up to the front of the sled to pull the kill switch
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Re: Baur sled August 19, 2023 03:24PM
ACTUALLY the kill switch ring on the TRACTOR failed.
Sled kill worked perfectly.
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Re: Baur sled August 19, 2023 03:51PM
Thank you for the explanation
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Re: Baur sled August 21, 2023 03:27AM
The kill ring did not fail.

The hook guy actually hooked the tether to the ziptie and not to the kill ring itself..

VB pulled the kill on the boat nothing came back with it. So he pulled ring on the tractor himself and the tractor shutoff...

Once again, keyboard pullers don't think before they know the facts...
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Re: Baur sled August 22, 2023 07:08PM
This seems to be a freaky situation. I wouldn't had been the one you hooked that thing in. Just imagine, a hitch/hook failure, the vehicle shoots forward, hard landing, engine brackets bend in a way that the throttle cable pulls the butterfly further into open dir, and this thing aim for the crowd. Holy moly.

And for the ones which doesn't believe that bend engine brackets don't be able to pull the throttle cable, there has been a quite similar incident a couple of weeks ago in EU. Until the moment that they had shut off the ignition, most of the internals of the engine already went dead (vehicle laid on its side, no torque in the drive line anymore).
Afterwards I proposed to use an 5$ accelerometer, couple to an 10$ microcontroller, soldered to a 10$ solid state switch, that is able to shut down the ignition in the case that the resulting acceleration tensor (sum of vectors XYZ), is longer than e.g. 0.2 seconds out of angle range of lets say 40-50deg relative to Z.
I wrote them a mail, but nobody respond. Obviously they are more comfortable to spend more k$ for internals than using this <50$ solution to save a lot of parts.
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