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Awe Yes... Sexy Tractors!!

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From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Claude Kyker
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:17 PM
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Just an option, if we didn’t have narrow fronts, we would not have the song “She thinks my tractor is sexy”.😉
Claude 

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> On Feb 14, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Sebranek, Joseph G [AN S] <sebranek at iastate.edu> wrote:
> 
> No doubt the advantage of a wide front for stability is somewhat a perception, however, in the hilly part of southwestern Wisconsin where I grew up, the farmers with steep hillsides seemed to prefer the wide fronts for stability. I know from personal experience of mowing hay across a steep slope that when the rear wheel on the downhill side drops into a badger hole, one gains a new appreciation for every little bit of stability that you can get. 
> 
> Joe
> 
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> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Dean Vinson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:09 PM
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> The tendency of narrow fronts to ball up with mud or (worse yet) sink hopelessly into the mud when you suddenly hit a soft spot is certainly a downside, and I can appreciate the other wide-front advantages folks have mentioned.
> 
> On the stability issue, as a veteran of various past ATIS threads on the same subject, I'll offer my bottom-line position that there's an inherent risk in believing "Oh, okay, I'm on a wide front tractor, and they're more stable than narrow fronts, so I can safely do stuff I wouldn't try if this
> were a narrow-front version of the same make and model."   I can't help but
> think the stability advantage of wide vs. narrow front is like saying the drive from Atlanta to Cleveland is shorter than the drive from Atlanta to
> Kansas City.   It's no doubt shorter, but not so much that it would feel all
> that different.
> 
> As to why they're more popular in some areas than others, I wonder if one of the big factors is just regional preferences for "what tractors are supposed to look like" ?
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
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