[AT] reversed tire example

[Dave Merchant]

At a show a couple years ago, we saw a Farmall A with the
cast wheel on the left side and the stamped wheel on the right.

Don't remember whether the tire treads were going the right way or not.

Dave Merchant


At 09:35 PM 8/4/2009, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>A lot of farmers around here used to reverse dished rear wheels when
>they sat them out to cultivate position (like on Fords and Fergusons)
>rather than bother to raise the whole back of the tractor to switch
>sides. I only used a couple of borrowed ones that way and one of the
>first things I noticed was how much faster they would stop a hay wagon
>on gravel or dirt. It still would bug me to see them that way.  :-)
>I have considered at times reversing the wheels on my loader tractor
>so that I could always back out of any place that I could drive into.
>Many many times I have had to dump the trip bucket because of having
>less traction backing up. I never did, it would bug me to see them
>that way.  :-)
>
>
>
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>Have you hugged your horses today?
>
>Francis Robinson
>aka "farmer"
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson46176 at gmail.com
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