Traction What are the NEGATIVES to widening the rear wheels / rear end?

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FWIW...most dealers keep their inventory as narrow as possible because of room on their lots and the sake of maneuvering...

 

[TerryR]

I hadn't really thought about it but why don't you widen the front too.

When we asked our dealer to widen the wheels on our JD 870 twenty years ago he did widen both front and rears. But at their widest the fronts are not as wide as the rears.

Wouldn't widening the front make the tractor that much more stable?

Not really, because the pivot point for the front is in the center of the axle until it hits the stops, buy which time there is probably so much momentum that the front axle is unlikely to stop any roll-over that's in progress.

 

[goeduck]

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That is one beefy top cylinder. Nice. Diameter?

 

[Texasmark]

1 reason I used: Tires were outside implements in use. Otherwise I liked them out a goodly amount for stability on my rolling terrain.

 

[Cougsfan]

There is disadvantage of widening the wheels if you are using a box blade or scraper blade and you make the wheels wider that the width if the blade. It will still work, but you won't drag over your wheel tracks if your trying to make the ground look really spiffy. If you are grading a road, you can't grade as close to the edge of the road.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Valve stems will be on the inside, so a bit more difficult to reach.

 

[Uruguayo]

From my own experiences, I can say that widening the trail of the rear axle of your tractor will not generate any physical mechanical problem to the tractor, you should evaluate and take into account what will be the greatest use you will give to the tractor so that the widening is not a problem then, for example, the wide wheels will give you problems if you use a brush cutter or a rear leveling blade that are narrower, you have to be very careful when using a wider front axle, because you will suffer much more forces, a tractor with the axes of different widths will not serve you to make furrows with a plow.
In my particular case I must take my wood for the winter of places with ravines, so I only widened my tractors back and placed stops on the front axle to reduce the pibot. In my opinion, the width of the axes is very specific in terms of work and places where you should go.

 

[joeu235]

If your cutting hay, the tire will lay down the grass and leave high spots everywhere. I worked for an old timer on a large ranch and every time he cut hay, we would reverse the right rear wheel to make it narrower.

 

[joeu235]

Also, I'm sure your not row cropping but the tire needs to stay between the rows when pulling a cultivator.

 

[CobyRupert]

In my particular case I must take my wood for the winter of places with ravines, so I only widened my tractors back and placed stops on the front axle to reduce the pibot. In my opinion, the width of the axes is very specific in terms of work and places where you should go.

Stops to reduce front axle pivot? Why?

You must only go through ravines at a right / perpendicular angle? I wish my tractor had MORE pivot, because sometimes when going through a ravine at a 45 degree angle, one front tire and one back tire end up in the air spinning, even in 4 wheel drive. Differential lock then becomes your friend. ...and 4wd is really 1 wheel drive at that moment.