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[John Hall]

At the ripe old age of 13 I was put on dad's M pulling a culti-packer 2 
ft wider than the one in the pic I posted. I was given 2 
instructions--don't wrap your thumbs around the steering wheel and never 
reach through the wheel to shift gears. It would have been nice if they 
would have explained that 5th was a road gear--that almost got ugly!

John


On 11/25/2016 10:35 PM, E. John Puckett wrote:
> 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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