[AJD] A2275R Front Wheel Spacers

[Dean VP]

Ron:

That is what those gathering chain shields on the inside were for. If they
were on?  :-).  Picking ear corn in those days was a rather tense time. If
the standing corn fields were not picked in time there would be hell to pay.
Of course those were the days when NW Iowa still got many feet of snow each
winter instead of the inches you now get. Never forget the winter of
1961/1962....... 26 days in a row where it never got above zero degrees and
typical night time lows were -40 degrees. With snow banks so high we had
flags tied to the automobile aerials to see cross traffic. For some odd
reason the next winter we lived in Southern California. Don't quite know why
that happened to this day. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

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-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Ronald L. Cook
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:20 PM
To: Antique John Deere mailing list
Subject: Re: [AJD] A2275R Front Wheel Spacers

Dean,
	We used the mud scrapers alright, but I don't recall turning the
wheels 
out.  I'll bet you had trouble getting the tires into the gathering 
chains.<g>

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Dean VP wrote:

> Chris:
> 
> As far as I know these were used to separate the front tires further. I
> don't think they were required any more when reversible wheels became
> available. I can think of one application for these based on my farm
> experience in the 40's and 50's. During corn picking time, using mounted
> corn pickers, we had trouble with the front tricycle wheels plugging up
with
> mud. The Roll-O-Matic made this problem even worse. Mud scrappers between
> the front wheels were an alternate solution but as I recall they weren't
the
> total solution.
> 
> Normally one didn't do field work when the fields were this wet but when
it
> came time to pick corn, the wet weather didn't stop us. We had to get the
> corn out before the weather got even worse and caused us to not get the
> harvest in. Once it snowed and the snow stayed we were done. In fact we
> prayed for a heavy frost and cold weather so we didn't have to deal with
> this mud problem. I'm sure there were other applications such as a
tricycle
> tractor used as a loader tractor in wet and muddy cattle yards. Etc, Etc.
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> Forbidden fruits create many jams!
> 
> www.deerelegacy.com
> 
> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Chris C
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:44 PM
> To: ATIS LIST
> Subject: [AJD] A2275R Front Wheel Spacers
> 
> 
> 
>   Bought a set of these on Ebay,  not really sure why,
>  but I am planning on setting my 1945 A up as a head
> scratcher and these will help.  
> 
>   Has anyone used these or seen them used?  What
> was/were the application(s)??  Anyone have a picture
> of a tractor with them being used?
> 
>     Thanks,
>  
>       Chris


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