Oddball Tractor...

[MikeIA]

I used one once (my aunt borrowed one from a dealer)...I just remember going down the road, messing with that lever, trying to get the back wheels to follow the front ones and stop dog-tracking... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

Uhmmm Mike,
I don't think that you're supposed to mess with it during transport. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

You could give the oncoming drivers a heart attack!

 

[Egon]

Articulated or dual steering tractors should have a lockout on the rear wheels for highway driving.

Could get real interesting otherwise.
Egon
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[MikeIA]

Yeah, I know that now. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Actually, it was only 3/4 of a mile, on a gravel road.
That day is probably the only time my Dad's farm has seen a four wheel drive...my uncle had just passed away, so the dealer let my aunt have the use of the tractor for free to do the chisel work, and we tried it out, pretty much just for the novelty. So we were moving every lever and seeing what it did.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Articulated tractors don't usually have independent steering. Only the row crop Steigers did that I can think of and that was a very limited turn angle. The only way an articulated tractor can turn is in the center and if you lock that out you better hope your road is very straight /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I know on the old Case trencher I use to play with there was no lock out. Of course the top speed on that thing was about 1 mph (at least that is how it felt /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif).