Found along the road

1939farmall · Nov 7, 2021

Theres a little lot a few miles down the road from me where they usually have rusty and or crusty stuff for sale. Saw this sitting there today, thought Id get a couples of pics of it. I dont really ever see duals on these old tractors. I know we never used duals on the ones we had at home. How useful would they be on a M? Or any tractor of that vintage? Just thought it was kind of interesting.

Sean Feeney · Nov 7, 2021

Sure does give it a different look. I like it!

NY 986 · Nov 7, 2021

I remember a couple of M's and a couple of 400's that had duals. Certainly was uncommon given how numerous those models were around here.

larry@stinescorner · Nov 7, 2021

rrlund had a nice old picture,,I think it was his grandfathers Old Oliver tractor(not sure) with duals on it

SVcummins · Nov 7, 2021

Same reason we run em on big tractors flotation traction compaction

johnofnewhaven · Nov 7, 2021

When I was in Highschool I had an Olive Super 88 diesel with duals. Used it for discing, pulling grain wagons and a fertilizer cart. Sure wish I still had that tractor.

JDB · Nov 7, 2021

In the 70s and 80s we leased a long abandoned farm that had an F20 with duals sitting in the trees

Bob M · Nov 7, 2021

We ran a Super M with oversize (14.8 x 38) duals for many years. It also had extra wide (H70 x 15?) tires on the WFE front.

Used it primarily for seed bed preparation - disking/cultimulching - as it significantly reduced soil compaction.

It also looked kinda badass(!)

redforlife · Nov 7, 2021

I have seen M's with duals on a rare occasion. Not with, what appears to be clamp on's, and even wider rims than factory. The ones I have seen were 2 sets of factory wheels mounted onto the axel. Inside set dished in, outside set dish out. In my opinion, they are just for show, and really not needed on an M. I guess in the right situation, they would add some flotation. But in my opinion, that is completely pointless when you got a tricycle front that has zero flotation for the front end.
Any smaller tractor than an M, you don't need duals. An M is probably border line big enough. The horse power you lose to turn the extra wheels, won't make up for the extra traction gained. An M may have the horses to overcome that, but it would be a toss up, depending hugely on what you were doing and the conditions.

SVcummins · Nov 7, 2021

A tractor on duals is about as cool as they come

glennster · Nov 7, 2021

id have to look but i think i have 3 sets of duals for an m in the barn.

Butch(OH) · Nov 7, 2021

we ran duals on ours when disking, tractor rode MUCH better first time over when dualled up.

BillinCentralMO · Nov 7, 2021

Id like duals for my 36 A. Saw an unstyled G with dual factory round spokes. Pretty neat.

jaoneill · Nov 7, 2021

We had a couple of wet, muddy falls back in the late 70's making it almost impossible to chop the silage corn. I put duals on both a JD 530 with a wide front end and a 48 JD A. The old A would pull loaded 16' JD unloading wagons almost axle deep as would the 530 on the little single row International chopper. Other than the neighbor that bought a 3-pt chopper, we finished the harvest early enough to help several other neighbors get their corn off and they never would have without the pulling power of those two old dual wheeled "flatmotors".

Mark Poss · Nov 7, 2021

I have a 37 A with duals. I could buy 4 tractors with what I have in the duals!!

Timmycornpicker · Nov 7, 2021

I have seen a Ford 6x1 with duals and extra wide front wheels down in the Pine Barrens. I don't know what it was being used for when I saw it, but it probably started out as a beach grooming tractor on the coast. The duals would have kept it from sinking into the dunes.

marloweg · Nov 7, 2021

we had duels on our Massey 44 special both loaded it pulled like a bulldozer still have the set up just don't use the duels anymore

KCTractors · Nov 7, 2021

I have a set of duals with a set of tire chains on the out-side tire on a 8N Ford that I use for crossing a marsh to get to the other side of my woodlot.

Bill in Colo · Nov 8, 2021

I have a M with duals on it, also a Farmhand F11D loader used it to stack and feed hay both loose and large round bales for years. Big advantage was no longer needing to chain up in snow or mud

BillinCentralMO · Nov 8, 2021

That is really cool.

paul · Nov 8, 2021

It wasnt common, but I saw 3-4 tractors of that era and size dualed up and working in the day. We have some real wet ground here, soft clay soils, I think it was floatation over the wet mostly.

Paul

KCTractors · Nov 8, 2021

Here is a picture of the 8N in the marsh.

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