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[John Hall]

Grant, hate to tell you but anything other than the double front wheel 
setup is unusual. Take a look in Wendell's 150yrs of IHC and you'll see 
what I mean. I'm in the Southeast and double wheels are the normal setup 
on ALL brands from the 1920's until they quit making them. I guess the 
reasoning was cultivation/row crop. We are fairly hilly but even that 
didn't push wide front tractors. I will say that for working tilled 
ground, I prefer a wide front. The only big tractor we have left is a 
tricyle front end 4020. Sometimes the furrows are so big you have to 
slow down to cross them. We had a wide front 4020 and a 4430 and we 
never backed out of the throttle on those. The tricycle did all the 
baling, bedding land (4 row bedder), and some bushhogging. It used to 
have to plow and harrow until a larger tractor came along. Its now an 
everything machine again with our small operation.

John Hall

On 11/24/2016 12:04 PM, Grant Brians wrote:
> I was happy to see that picture. It reminds me that there are tractors
> with that odd wheel setup that exist.... Here in California, I did not
> see a tractor with that strange midwest setup with two front wheels in
> the center in use until my 20s and even today they are beyond rare. Why
> are they rare? Because wide front ends were and are used for field work,
> loaders etc. and single front wheels were for cultivating, hay raking
> etc. When needing to irrigate, those twin wheels are totally useless and
> since most farming other than hills for hay or grain are irrigated
> operations, why would anyone want them. For the hills, tracks or wide
> wheels were and are used still.
>                Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer
>
> On 11/21/2016 5:02 PM, John Hall wrote:
>> Looks like we can post pics so here is one of dad's M right after we
>> got through rolling a corn field to be planted in wheat
>>
>> John Hall
>>
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