[AT] reversed tire example

[charliehill]

Dave, because those Farmall A's have the offset engine they are light on the 
right side.  I would have expected to see the cast wheel on the right for 
counterweight.   Back in the 50's and 60's when nearly every tobacco farmer 
around here had a Farmall A you often saw wheel weights on the right and not 
on the left.

Charlie
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From: "Dave Merchant" <kosh at ncweb.com>
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Subject: Re: [AT] reversed tire example


> 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.  :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Have you hugged your horses today?
>>
>>Francis Robinson
>>aka "farmer"
>>Central Indiana USA
>>robinson46176 at gmail.com
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