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[John Hall]

Grant, guess what I was trying to say is that the double front wheel 
setup is probably the most common across the US. Remember, I'm in NC, 
not the Midwest. Outside of a few F-12's, I rarely can recall seeing a 
single wheel setup on anything--It definitely makes it a more desirable 
collector tractor by being so odd.

Regardless of whats most common, how come narrow fronts don't work well 
for irrigation? I'm thinking you guys have ditches or canal's for 
irrigation, do you flood the fields or do they cause issues trying to 
cross ditches? We don't see very much produce farming here. Whatever we 
do have would be watered the same as tobacco---lots of alum pipe laid 
out temporarily. Old school method was to have individual guns in the 
field. 30 years ago that gave way to "rain reels"--huge reel of pipe 
with a traveling gun. It was a lot faster to setup! I've seen a couple 
of the big metal overhead traveling irrigation outfits in the eastern 
part of the state--its very flat there.

John

> John, I hope that you noted I said that in CALIFORNIA that the dual
> center wheels are rare.... I realize that in places where irrigation is
> not the norm  that setup was indeed the norm, but it does not work with
> irrigation or the hills we have. I actually drove one of those midwest
> setup tractors before I ever owned my first tractor (a 1949 Oliver 77
> three wheel tricycle that we still use) when I visited my great uncle in
> Illinois. The point of my post is to remind all of us that there are
> differences between areas in farming and equipment practices.
>
>        By the way, I too have used the 90 degree turn to load a tricycle
> tractor as noted by mr. Puckett. It is a bit odd, but it works and is
> actually safe for an experienced operator. We still have and use a
> Farmall 240 tricycle, two Oliver 77 tricycles and converted one Oliver
> 77 tricycle to factory wide front. The Farmall 100's and the 140 are
> wide front of course as they only ever came that way.
>
>                       Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
>
>                    Grant Brians
>
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