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JD H 46

12-31-2005 07:31:19

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I was wondering if anyone could fill me in on tractors that were made with a single front wheel. What advantage were they supposed to have over tractors with two front wheels? It seems like just about every manufacturer made them but they were never as popular as the two wheel row crop tractors. Just wondering.

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edchainsaw

01-01-2006 19:09:10

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

I have a couple of them (well have one and lead on #2) for Massey-Harris ones..

our 44sp was a single tire LP --- like a colorado special...

guy had it before us swapped it to 2 tires because "IF I had a flat in the field I could go ahead and finnish"

and "IF I ran out of LP I couldnt get a jug and just fill it"

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12-31-2005 15:33:52

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

A lot of trikes here in W. Colo. furrow irrigated ground.

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ejr-IA.

12-31-2005 09:29:32

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

I have a H and 560 with single fronts.When picking corn with mounted pickers on our river bottom when muddy they didn't ball up with mud as bad.The H was used to what we called press corn in lister ditchs after the corn was planted for seed to soil contact plus it sealed the soil and didn't dry out as fast.Drove the H with a 9 speed down many a furrow after school let out for the day.

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KIP in MX

12-31-2005 09:11:02

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

The cotton picker tractors had single front wheels.

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Coloken

12-31-2005 08:30:26

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

Most cultivator tractos sold hear for sugar beets were single front. Used on vegitables where no deep furrows like with lister corn. where the two wheel narrow front was used.

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Allan in NE

12-31-2005 08:42:45

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Coloken, 12-31-2005 08:30:26

Ken,

When you were younger, did you ever have to pull pig-weeds out of the sugar beets or the bean fields?

That had to be the biggest "bummer" of all time. Worse than grindin' ear corn using a spud fork. :>(

Allan

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Kent in NB

01-02-2006 16:43:35

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:42:45

I used to do that job. Very boring, and the rows were way too long! A jug of water at one end of the field, take six rows on each side and go. Sharpen your hoe after lunch and at the end of the day, and don't break the handle! I do not miss that job. Eating raw beets was not the best snack either.

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steveormary

12-31-2005 09:56:26

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:42:45

Allan;

We would grind ear corn with an F-12 and an old hammer mill. You threw a scoop full of earcorn into the hopper and duck becuase the hammers would throw the corn back out. Then you had to wait for the F-12 to get back up to speed.

steveormary

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Coloken

12-31-2005 09:18:39

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:42:45

Nope! no sugat beets. No irigated. Had to ride on the back of the go-dig and pull out the pig weed that draged when cultivating corn planted with a lister. Dad kept trying to raise corn, since he was born in Iowa. Worst job was trying to dig a post hole in dobe ground. Bet 3 out of 4 of the farmers here now could not do it. Poured water in them and the next day the water woild be down about 1 inch.

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Keith-OR

12-31-2005 09:09:40

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:42:45

Allan, thinned a lot of beets with one of them "short hoes".

Just knew they cut them off to punish us younguns

Keith & Shawn

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Allan in NE

12-31-2005 08:12:35

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to JD H 46, 12-31-2005 07:31:19

JD,

Back in that era of front mounted cultivators, they were a must for narrow rowed crops (18"-22").

Depends on your location, I guess. I saw my first 'trike' at the age of 53. :>)

Allan

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Keith-OR

12-31-2005 09:01:11

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:12:35

So Allan, your saying you just resently seen one of them "trikes" LOl..LOL..:>)

Keith & Shawn

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Allan in NE

12-31-2005 09:12:49

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Keith-OR, 12-31-2005 09:01:11

Yep,

The neighbor came a draggin' one in here from somewhere. Musta been an "eastern" tractor is all I can figure. Sillest lookin' gizmo ya ever saw. :>)

I'd seen 'em on the toy tractors; didn't know that they actually put them on a real machine. :>)

Told ya I was "slow". :>)

Allan

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Keith-OR

12-31-2005 12:19:20

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 09:12:49

Well Allan, guess I'm either slow or live so far back in the country that they have to pump sunlite into me, cause I just seen my first one last year. It was a IH 560D. :-(

Hey, isn't JFK still President?? LOL

Keith & Shawn

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Leroy

12-31-2005 11:45:10

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 09:12:49

99% of all Silver King farm tractors were single front wheel with a very few with wide front but never with dual narrow front tires, the Silver King was made in eastern Ohio by the Fate, Roote, Heath company in the 30's thru the 50's and the first very few tractors carried the Plymouth name as that was the name of the town they were made in till walter Chrysler got in to the act as he did not want a tractor out there with the name of his car on it. Size for the larger farm tractors was closer to an M Farmall than an H Farmall

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Vern-MI

12-31-2005 08:17:26

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Re: Single Front Wheel Tractors in reply to Allan in NE, 12-31-2005 08:12:35

Don't know why but they seemed to snag every weed and wind it around the axle. Always pulling out weeds from the front axle.

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