What's wrong with this picture?

CincyFlyer · Nov 28, 2017

This is the cover of my Mahindra 2540 manual (and it's quite poorly written; my "day job" is technical publications for a large jet engine manufacturer!)
Something odd about that tractor ...
(Please forgive the cat hair from the scan!)

4get gto · Nov 28, 2017

Well they couldn't decide which way they wanted the tires for one.

RobS · Nov 28, 2017

Some recommend that orientation for better reverse traction, particularly with loader work...

CincyFlyer · Nov 28, 2017

RobS said:
Some recommend that orientation for better reverse traction, particularly with loader work...

Note that only one of the front tires is that orientation!

RobS · Nov 28, 2017

CincyFlyer said:
Note that only one of the front tires is that orientation!

Yeah, I noticed that AFTER I posted. Maybe it's one of those compromises; slightly better traction in reverse and slightly better in forward!

/pine · Nov 28, 2017

RobS said:
Yeah, I noticed that AFTER I posted. Maybe it's one of those compromises; slightly better traction in reverse and slightly better in forward!

Dang it...I got a couple of tires off e-bay and dropped them and the rims off at a tire shop...when I was unloading them back at the farm I noticed they were mounted with opposite tread direction...since they are turf tires I've left them...mostly run heavy lug fronts anyway...

Kentuckyfarmer · Nov 28, 2017

Well to what the OP said poorly written manual, so I guess to go with the poorly written manual a poorly put together tractor.

Oldpath05 · Nov 28, 2017

How many times you looked at that manual before you noticed? As long as the tractor works good, all that counts. I'd might expect that on a Chinese tractor manual 40 years ago.

MtnViewRanch · Nov 28, 2017

Well, I don't think that there is anything wrong with the picture.

It seems to me that a large amount of tractors have the tires mounted this way. Not on purpose, but when you have people that know next to nothing and get paid about the same amount, what else would you expect?

So to sum up, don't be surprised when you see a tractor with the tires mounted in a similar fashion. The manual is just showing how it actually might be.