[AT] How can they farm like that

[rlgoss at twc.com]

We only had one jack and inadequate cribbing on the farm, so we never bothered making sure the treads headed the right direction.  Besides, the rear tires had closed ends on the rubber cleats and we were never able to detect any difference in traction regardless of the direction of rotation.  I used to read the tire ads in Successful Farming and wish WE had those new-style treads that cleared themselves of mud, etc.


Larry
---- Don <don.bowen at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> On 11/21/2015 7:39 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> > On dished wheel tractors like this I always sat the wheels out for
> > cultivating row crops by switching sides but some guys just flipped them
> > around one side at a time. I knew several that said that they didn't have a
> > jack big enough to lift the whole back of the tractor at once.
> 
> We switched side to side on the Ferguson for spraying and cultivating.  
> My father also put fluid in the tires.  He would take one wheel off and 
> lean it against the tree then take the other wheel and put it in the 
> other side.  One year while trying to set the first wheel up to roll it 
> he slipped and the tire pinned him against the tree.  He was stuck until 
> my mother called someone to come help.  Luckily no serious injuries.
> 
> -- 
> Don Bowen       --AD0NB--
> 
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