[AT] Confessing a complete lack of knowledge here

[Larry D. Goss]

We didn't use the option of keeping the tread running correctly on the
John Deere-L.  Obviously, we could have exchanged the wheels from side
to side so that when the rims were reversed the tread still ran the
right way, but we only had one jack on the farm that had the reach to
lift the rear of the tractor and we didn't have any blocking lumber to
rest the tractor on during the process.  So we set the wheels narrow and
had the tread running correctly during plowing and cultivating but ran
the treads backwards when the wheels were set wide and the mower was
mounted.  There was some question about any difference in traction with
those tires anyway -- they had closed cleats.

I ran into an interesting situation on a John Deere 316 a couple of days
ago.  It's a cream puff machine.  It's been through two owners in its
life, and it appears to have had almost no use.  For some reason, the
current owner replaced the mower deck, tried it once, and then parked
the whole tractor for seven or eight years.  The only things I could
find wrong with it are that the hour-meter is missing and one rear ag.
tire is mounted backwards.  Otherwise, it's in showroom condition.
Strange.

Larry

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Charlie,
That is probably true but when I was involved with changing the wheel 
spacing (years ago as part of the muscle team) we always moved the tires

from side-to-side to keep the tread turned the right way (and this also 
kept the valve stems on the outside).  Interesting, for sure.  I don't 
remember changing the attachment of the rim to the wheel center but I'm 
sure that would give you more spacing options.  Most of the time we just

used the spin out adjustment on the Allis D-14 - maybe twice a year or 
so we changed the spacing of the wheels on the Ferguson TO-30.

David

charlie hill wrote:
> David,  probably the stem is on the wrong side because the previous 
> owner ran the rims reversed on the axle or they are reversed now.  
> That is done to change the wheel track spacing (row width).
>
> Charlie
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