dual rear tires

MarkV · Mar 4, 2003

Murph,

I am pretty much in the heart of Atlanta near Emory University and CDC, if you know the area. About half the week we are at our mountain home 70 miles Northeast of Atlanta. A little more room for the tractor up there.

MarkV

cowboydoc · Mar 4, 2003

Your axle won't hold up to the stress of dual rear wheels. Like has been suggested your only option is to put the wheels out to the widest setting.

Soundguy · Mar 4, 2003

Many tractors can adjust the reas out as well as the fronts.

The wider you get, the better off you will be.

What kind of ground clerance do you have? If alot.. you might try to lower your center of gravity with some custome frame weights... possibly front wheel weights as well.

Turf tires will lower you and give you more of a squatt profile... but you loose traction...all tradeoffs..

Soundguy

tdenny · Mar 4, 2003

L3650,

That's not a small garden tractor that's a CUT JD 655, 755, 855, or 955 without the loader. At least now I know I can do that to mine. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Anonymous Poster · Mar 4, 2003

Just a little more info, the tractor does not have a great deal of ground clearence, and I have turned the rear tires around to the maximum they will go out, I gained about 6" per tire but it's still fairly tippy on any type of incline. Would it hurt anything to turn the front tires around like the rears? I have 4 wheel drive and had heard that you could damage the front end if you messed with the front tires much.

Shawn.

thcri · Mar 4, 2003

Mark,

If you have a mountain home there you have some very pretty country to look over. I always said I would never leave Minnesota, but if I did, Atlanta and north would be were I go.

murph

bartman · Mar 4, 2003

New a young boy up in PA who put duals on a Cub Cadet

It looked kool and ran fine for about a week then it broke the rear axle..............

All that time on your hands when you are young dumb and full of #%@
Bartman

Anonymous Poster · Mar 5, 2003

I have concluded that putting duals on my tractor would probably not be a good idea, but has anyone ever tried putting wheel extensions on?

After visiting the www.unverferth.com I found wheel extensions that can extend from 3" to 21". Thought that might be a better way of getting the stability I need for my hilly terain.

Shawn.

WVBill · Mar 5, 2003

Shawn:

When I first got my Kubota B6100 I felt it was quite tippy also. It had R1 Ag tires on it set at their maximum width.

I worked with the Kubota dealer and we came up with two solutions. One was to use wheel extensions similar to what you've found. The other (which I went with) was to switch the Ag tires to Turf tires, filled with antifreze on the rear.

This solution gives me about 6" more wheel width because the turfs are wider than the ags plus there is more weight in the fill of the tires.

With all that weight back there - half of which is below the rear axle - I don't feel any tippieness at all now.

When I need more traction than the turfs in the rear will give me, I put it in 4wd and engage the R1's on the front.

Soundguy · Mar 5, 2003

Were you able to find turf tires with the same rolling circumference as the r-1's you replaced? If not I would think there would be driveline problems.. or is the front drive on your tractor independent hydrostatic or similar with no driveshaft connection between front and rears...

Soundguy