[AT] Lugged Wheels:now Wheat Header

[HERBERT METZ]

Farmer's mentioning 'old stuff'; I remember when we cut two rounds around our main wheat field with a horse powered wheat header and horse pulled barges (a large hayrack with outer side several feet higher than header side).  Google 'Harvesting Wheat with a McCormick Header & barges'.  Notice the header is pushed/pulled by six horses. This method did not knock down much wheat.  Also, before fertilizers the wheat in outer edges of the field sometimes did not ripen as uniformly as remainder of the field. This loose wheat was stacked, then threshed a month or so after harvest; providing both ripe wheat and nice threshed straw for bedding, etc   The man driving the horses sat straddling a horizontal 2" x 4" with metal seat above the V-cast steel wheel that served as a rudder.   A lot of manual work.

Herb(GA)



On October 15, 2019 at 7:28 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:


>     OK... I Finally remembered the "next paragraph" I mentioned in the last post.  :-)
>     I mentioned the scrap pile behind the barn with the steel wheels. Actually there was far more there than just those wheels. There was all of the unused 10-20 parts that were left from the creation of the one good tractor.
>     My father had taken over the family farm about 1941/1942 when his father's heart got too bad but he disliked horses. My grandfather (died in 1943) had always farmed with horses and that lot held all of his old horse drawn implements and a few implements my father had bought for parts for some of them.
>     I recall a disk with steel dolly wheels at the hitch, at least two grain binders, a corn binder, several horse drawn walking moldboard plows, a couple of wooden horse wagons, horse drawn riding cultivators, a horse drawn spike tooth harrow, a horse mower, a 1 horse grain drill (for planting between corn rows, a horse dump rake, a horse tedder and the Model A Ford that lost its life when the engine died and would not restart sitting in a railroad crossing.  :-)   My father's modern implements were generally kept in another area.
>     I'm amazed that I survived that lot. From about age 5 to 7 that lot was my playground... I climbed all over that stuff constantly and I knew much of it down to the bolts.
>     Most of the old stuff was sold at the "moving auction" when we moved in 1951. The scrap sold quite well. They culled both the milk cow herd and the hogs and cleared out some extra modern implements etc. Less stuff to move. It takes a lot of trips to move a farm even those as small as the typical ones of that time.
>     Maybe I'll remember another paragraph tomorrow.  :-)
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>     On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:02 PM Phil Auten < pga2 at basicisp.net mailto:pga2 at basicisp.net > wrote:
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> >         I am old enough to remember the "NO LUGS ALLOWED" (or similar) posted on most rural highways.
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> >         Phil in TX
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> >         On 10/15/2019 8:07 AM, James Peck wrote:
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> > >             This article discusses lugged wheels but does not discuss a reasonable alternative:; Having a set of bolt on cleats for show and a set of bolt on rubber pads for go. Battery powered impact wrenches such as those sold under the Milwaukee and DeWalt brands would allow unbolting one set and bolting on the other in minutes.
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> > >             Lugged Wheels: On the Road to Trouble https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-life/lugged-wheels-zmcz19octzhur
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> > >             Lugged wheels were great in the field but spurred conflict when tractors traveled on paved roads.
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