[Farmall] OT: strange new tractor

[Mike Sloane]

Here in the "muck" farms, with very soft fragile soil, the farmers use 
extremely wide tires with no lugs at all for working the crops or 
cutting sod. In fact, the front tires are often used Mickey Thompson 
"drag slicks", and the rears are some kind of huge specialty tires. We 
had one in the shop one time, and I took pictures of it. If anyone is 
interested, I will post them on my image site (when I can find where I 
filed them...).

The tires in the image below are big, but they don't seem to put the 
tractor up all that high enough to qualify the tractor as a "high crop", 
and the tread looks what I would call an "irrigation" tread.

Mike

E. John Puckett wrote:
> Appears to be a modern version of a highcrop or cane tractor.  Lugs on 
> tires aren't deep enough to use in soft ground, I would think they would 
> slip too easily.  Wonder if it is for spraying some type of grass crop 
> where the ground would be pretty firm.
> 
> Mike Sloane wrote:
> 
>> <http://oddballsdecals.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=160646>
>>
>> I haven't ever seen tires/wheels like that on a modern tractor.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> 

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