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laknox
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| MTA wrote: | I've also noticed something else concerning the front wheels, are they leaning inwards nearer the bottom? Aso are they closer together to provide a tighter turning circle?  |
As I explained in another message, it was to get the bottom of the tires closer together to fit the bottom of a furrow better, as well as to prevent them from "climbing" the furrow.
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laknox
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| James wrote: | Came into this late, Griffin already answered for me!
Nice tractor mate!
The wheels was like that on the early Farmall's and Nuffield made some like it too I think, Griff, correct me if I'm wrong 
Also, Fordson made some like it, I know they made a Major like it, and I think the E27N had an example made like it too. |
I can't think of any Ford(son) with a tricycle arrangement, but then I don't know them like I do JD. FWIW, Deere produced several different variations of wheel-type. Besides the N, there was the W with a wide front-end like most of today's tractors, the H or HC, High or Hi-Crop, for tall crops and the O, or Orchard model, with short wheels and full fenders from front to back to protect fruit trees.
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laknox
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: Our usual show display |
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Here's a shot of our usual show display with my JD A, my nephew's JD BN, JD 1.5 hp hit-n-miss, JD 1B corn sheller and my nephew's electric Gator. The only thing missing is my niece's JD L110 garden tractor.
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Very informative stuff Lyle.  |
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laknox
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| SPOKESMAN wrote: | | Very informative stuff Lyle. |
I could go on, and on, and...okay dear I'll shut up, now...just aim that thing somewhere else! 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| Makes a change from steam!! Great to see the images too. |
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laknox
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| SPOKESMAN wrote: | | Makes a change from steam!! Great to see the images too. |
I have more... Actually, our tractor club owns a Case 65 that I was helping to crew (or learning to), but last September they noticed a weep in the firebox that, after poking =gently= with a screwdriver, turned into a 2" hole. After an extremely thorough UT (ultrasound test), it was found that there was severe erosion in several other places on the shell and the boiler was promptly deadlined. Now us Colonists tend to be thrifty (hell, =cheap=) and the club is pretty-well dead-set against even repairing the boiler. A new, rivited boiler (there is =one= quality boilermaker in the U.S. who regularly builds new rivited boilers) runs upwards of $100k and a non-historic welded shell still runs about $40k. Then add the cost of a full resto on top...  We can sell the durn thing and buy another one, that's in better shape that ours was when running for about $15k, net. Go figure. Course if you want to build a new 1/2 scale Case 65 from castings, it'll cost you about $30-35k. Go figure...
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| Great to see the pictures - although not from a farming background I have have always found farm machinery or any sort of mechanicalia fascinating. |
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Griffin
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Some nice pics of the Deere's there.
For quite a few years Ford was the market leader here in the UK, But due to an aggressive marketing approach, Deere now hold the top spot for the highest sales of a single make.
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laknox
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| Griffin wrote: | Some nice pics of the Deere's there.
For quite a few years Ford was the market leader here in the UK, But due to an aggressive marketing approach, Deere now hold the top spot for the highest sales of a single make. |
'Course, the fact that most other companies either died or were bought out helped JD a lot.
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laknox
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: Lyle on the sled |
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Here's another shot of me on the weight sled, taken on the same pull as my avatar pic. Some things to notice; you can see my rear tires squatting pretty good and a bit of wheel slip going on; the front tires are starting to unweight with only the center ribs on the ground. The guy with the flag is the safety judge and he watches to be sure the pull goes okay. You can see the small chain hanging down behind the front wheel. That has a marker on it that gives you 12 inches of front-end rise before you're flagged. We also can not have a hitch higher than 20 inches and have a 4 mph speed limit on the pull, which Fords can easily hit in 2nd gear. I watched a guy do a pull on his A that was one of the most perfect pulls I've ever seen. As he started to spin, he started throttling back on the gas to reduce horsepower to reduce wheel spin. He also had the front end about 8 inches off the ground and kept it that way for over 50 feet. I cry every time I think that I didn't have a video camera on it.
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Wallace
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Great pic and it does look a nice tractor.
I Like the tractor pulls you guys do over there. The ones that aren't really your average tractor. ie, some have 4 supercharged big block engines to pull an incredible weight.
They wheel stand, slam down break in half.
All chaos, that I like watching 
I use JD machinary everyday at work. A few years back we only just missed out by 2 places in a competition where the winners got an all expense paid trip to Molne (or Moline?) where the JD factory is, and some Golf course there.
We got 3rd, so got a lot of JD merchandise instead 
Pur boss got a trip there, for buying 2 JD machines. Now that is what I call a freebie.
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| laknox wrote: | | James wrote: | Came into this late, Griffin already answered for me!
Nice tractor mate!
The wheels was like that on the early Farmall's and Nuffield made some like it too I think, Griff, correct me if I'm wrong
Also, Fordson made some like it, I know they made a Major like it, and I think the E27N had an example made like it too. |
I can't think of any Ford(son) with a tricycle arrangement, but then I don't know them like I do JD. FWIW, Deere produced several different variations of wheel-type. Besides the N, there was the W with a wide front-end like most of today's tractors, the H or HC, High or Hi-Crop, for tall crops and the O, or Orchard model, with short wheels and full fenders from front to back to protect fruit trees.
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Well, for starters, the Ford 901 had a tricylce front end, and my friend still has a toy from his childhood, a john deere tricycle!!! Came with a little trailer, kinda got beat up. (3 ton tractor+10 pound trailer=tin foil.)
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You still need a good Major
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