Odd thing to do to a tractor

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kebo

kebo

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What's wrong with this picture?

Is there a specific reason someone would that??

I've heard of reversing the front tires for loader work, but this????

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No $.
 
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He's so sick of the economy he doesn't know wether he's comming or going :D
 
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Some people don't understand "rotate the tires".
 
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kebo said:
What's wrong with this picture?

Is there a specific reason someone would that??

I've heard of reversing the front tires for loader work, but this????

Tractor.jpg
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I've seen this occasionally on old 2WD farm tractors. The purpose is to help get a little traction backing out of a hole or loose soil. Of course, the loss is forward traction, but us poor boys sometimes can't have everything. Actually, I seriously considered doing exactly this on my old Fordson Dexta. ...but I decided to simply give the old girl away rather than embarrass her
 
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Gem99ultra said:
I've seen this occasionally on old 2WD farm tractors. The purpose is to help get a little traction backing out of a hole or loose soil. Of course, the loss is forward traction, but us poor boys sometimes can't have everything. Actually, I seriously considered doing exactly this on my old Fordson Dexta. ...but I decided to simply give the old girl away rather than embarrass her
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We are showing our age here huh. :) It was also common in the early days of self propelled combines, which were all 2wd. It allowed the operator to back out of a muddy situation.
 
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I use to think under certain conditions you might get more traction with the bars reversed.
 
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If you look closely they are 2 completely different tires. My guess is he had a flat and used what he could find possibly having it mounted wrong and just said heck with it.

Chris
 
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Diamondpilot said:
If you look closely they are 2 completely different tires. My guess is he had a flat and used what he could find possibly having it mounted wrong and just said heck with it.

Chris
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You've got better eyes than me. I can't see the difference other than the left is mounted backwards. Not saying you're not right... just saying I can't tell. But you definitely are right in that he probably just wasn't too concerned, from the looks of his tractor.

On the other hand, I can relate to him not being too concerned about what brand of wax to use on it. My Ole' Blue sat out in the fields for 40+ years. It worked from sunup to sunset for most of those years, and never saw a wash job, not to mention wax. But it just kept on running. Looks don't count as far as a tractor's performance - only to the owner's level of pride. This old tractor would probaby outpull and out work my brand new L3400 :)
 
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