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[Mark Johnson]

I had my own set of 'preferences' - if I was cultivating or mowing, the 
narrow front was best. For plowing with a 4-bottom, the wide front had 
the advantage that I could drop the right front into the furrow and 
daydream until the end of a pass...no steering to worry about!

Mark J

On 2/13/2019 4:32 PM, Gunnells, Brad R wrote:
> I don't have an exact answer but I think this discussion has come up before and part of the theory was adapting wide fronts to different row spacings. But as you said, for mounted pickers and such a narrow front had advantages.
>
> I have a few tractors, a couple with narrow fronts and a couple with wide. The one advantage with the narrow front is the sharp turning ability. There are times where that really comes in handy. The wide front however is a bit softer over bumpy ground as the pivot helps take away some of the bumps where the narrow front tends to bounce more.
>
> Just my opinion.
> Brad
>
> On 2/13/19, 4:23 PM, "AT on behalf of Greg Hass" <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of ghass at m3isp.com> wrote:
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>      This is a question I have wondered about for years although it is not
>      world changing. The question is: why are some areas mostly wide front
>      and others narrow front tractors?  In our area of Michigan, as soon as
>      wide front became available almost 100% went with wide front.
>      Personally, I hate narrow front tractors with a passion. I would never
>      get a narrow front tractor except maybe an old 2 cylinder JD or
>      something like a Farmall F-12 where wide front either did not exist or
>      is extremely rare. I know that in some areas the larger tractors had
>      narrow front because of mounted corn pickers. From videos other areas
>      had narrow fronts. If you Google  ( tractors from the past, plowing in
>      1962) you will find many tractors plowing but I didn't see a single wide
>      front even on a couple new generation JD's. I don't know where the video
>      was filmed but I suspect Indiana because of the fields and the way they
>      raised the plows to go over grassed waterways; something I still see
>      when we travel there to see our kids. I'm not sure, but I think the 4020
>      Farmer used to own had a narrow front. Also why does no one make narrow
>      front anymore? In the video, even the Ford disking has a narrow front,
>      something I have never seen in our area and in years past there were a
>      lot of Fords around us. Comments anyone.
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