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[E. John Puckett]

The further out those wheels were the harder it was on your wrists and 
hands if you hit a rock or a hole with the front. =-O


On 11/25/2016 9:16 PM, John Hall wrote:
> Well that does make quite a bit of sense. Sometimes we had to go in
> fairly quick to pull the pipes up, didn't have time to let the sled rows
> dry. It was amazing to me how much mud a Super A could go through.
> I have seen 2 or 3 H and M's with the dual front that had the rims
> mounted so they were spaced wide--wonder if mud was the reason? Whatever
> the reason they looked weird and I always wondered how they drove.
>
> John Hall
>
>
> On 11/25/2016 8:45 PM, E. John Puckett wrote:
>> I would think the dual front wheels would have problems with mud balling
>> up between them where the ground was heavily irrigated.  I remember a
>> few times when we had gotten the H in the mud we had to dig the mud out
>> between the wheels when we parked it for the night when freezing weather
>> was predicted.
>>
>>
>> On 11/25/2016 7:26 PM, John Hall wrote:
>>> 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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