4WD or 2WD?

Soundguy · Oct 16, 2003

( so lightly loaded they wouldn't even steer the tractor. In those cases, 4WD doesn't add much. Put any weight on the front, however, )

Well said!

Soundguy

rockyridgefarm · Oct 16, 2003

Excellant post, Wolfman!

Egon · Oct 16, 2003

Fellows:

If you think those old two wheel drive tractors were lightly loaded on the front you should spend a day or two driving one without power steering.

Egon

pruntyc · Oct 16, 2003

I drove them for weeks on end without power steering. Not all that hard, we are just spoiled in this country anymore, everything has to be real easy.

DK35vince · Oct 16, 2003

( I drove them for weeks on end without power steering. Not all that hard, we are just spoiled in this country anymore, everything has to be real easy. )

Well I have 2 tractors.One with power steering and one without.
The one without rarely gets used anymore, huge differance.
Spoiled? Maybe.
But the tractor with power steering does not try to break my thumb from a spinning steering wheel when I hit a ground hog hole.
Can't say the same for the other tractor.

_RaT_ · Oct 16, 2003

I imagine that when the tractor came along folks with picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and horses thought the tractor folks were spoiled too. It's not as much spoiled as it is smarter when what we have available to us is utilized. We definitely don't endure the physical hardships folks of the past did, but we could if we had a commitment to do so. The brain oddly enough figures these things out. I recall digging all my irrigation trenches by hand, putting screws in with a screwdriver and hammering all my plywood on by hand. Today it's trenchers, battery screw guns and air nailers. Spoiled or smart? Rat...

Egon · Oct 17, 2003

What size were you driving for weeks on end?

Egon

Old_Hickory · Oct 17, 2003

Farmall Cub maybe ?? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Simplicity,Gravely/Bolens? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

pruntyc · Oct 17, 2003

It was many years ago, most of the time it was a Massey pulling a 2 bottom plow. Not the 3 point type but the one with wheels, and a lever to drop it down and then pick it up. But other bigger ones at times to disk and what ever, was working for a big wheat farmer.

stvman · Oct 17, 2003

Pruntic, You are absolutely correct! I will trade you a pick and shovel for your tractor /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Would it be safe to assume that you dont have a Hummer in your driveway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif