Tom Bond

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Well, I got it on. What do you think? NF or WF? I'm kinda growing partial to the way it looks with the NF. How do you think it will handle now that I have weights on all 4 with the NF as compared to the WF? I guess we'll find out in a month or so once the snow flies and I get the blade on!
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She will sure turn sharp with NF.

I love mowing with a NF, and love those prior rowcrops in general.

Looks great
 
I like the looks of both,but I think you'll want the
wide front for snow,it will pack less and if you get
wet snow it won't pack in between the front tires
with the wide front.It also tends to turn better
with the wide front in snow.
 
I would never convert a WF tractor to NF unless I planned to mount a two row picker and could not avoid it.

Dean
 
I have a 4000 just like yours. is yours a SOS?

Mine has a wide front. I would prefer a narrow
front. it would take up less room in the shop.

I move snow with mine. front rims will fill with
snow on the inside. The wide front tends to stick
out too far in the front. With a narrow front I
could turn shorter and not have to back up as
much.
 
Nope. Mines not an SOS. When I used the wf last year for snow, I had no problem with snow packing on the inside of rims with the 1/2 moon 2 piece weights in there. I managed to get them back on again after mounting the nf so I'm hoping it won't pack up in there. As for the extra room, it opens up enough space for another tractor or ATV!
 

I like the look of the old Ford narrow front way better than wide. The wide looks like a cobbled up mess. And the NF is a pleasure to drive, it is so nimble when you need to turn sharp.
 
Drive it a while with the NF, you'll probably like it.
Snow will pack in the weights, but no worse than before.
Using your brakes for steering will work better too.

Some folks like the wide fronts better, stability is usually the stated reason.
I grew up on mostly narrow fronts and the only tractor we ever
rolled was a wide front. Had a rear tire and rim break off a JD NF.
All it did was drop to the ground. Jacked it up, replaced it and went on.
 
just opinion...
On a Ford rowcrop, a NF looks far better.
The wide front on a Ford RC looks like what it is...an afterthought...
Structurally, I'd also lean to a NF on your model.
It's how the engineers designed it. The 'afterthought' wide front
always looked to me like it was going to break just sitting there
with the wheels and mounting design moved that far forward.
(just perception, they are strong, but it still looks like a lever to me, trying to do bad things....)

If you have trouble with snow or spring mud packing between
the front wheels, just flip your rims to get some space.
Only takes a minute and you can put them back for the summer.

One shed I have holds 3 tractors but just has 1 small door in the center. Getting a wide front in the side bay is an arm wearying fight.
NF, backs right in, parallel parking style :D
 
NF for me, but both look great,

The only way to solve the problem, buy another one
so you can have a nf and wf.

If I Had that tractor long I would have to install
a front bumper guard, I have the problem of things
jumping out in front of me and hitting my tractor.

Good job!!!!!
 
Beautiful looking tractor! Love the narrow front! But, ya [u:377af89d9d]gotta[/u:377af89d9d] git them pie weights painted! :wink:
Dave
 
Hi Tom- Looks great either way. It's nice to be
able to switch it WF/NF. I have a 961 like your
4000 and it is a WF but I have a NF pedestal but
never got around to trying it. Plan to do that
soon.
Do you (or anyone else here) know if Ford made a
mud scraper that would mount on the front of the
NF prior? If so, might be a nice accessory.
Also, BTW, looks like you might be able to adjust
your WF just a bit narrower. -Will
 
Most of the 900's around here were narrow fronts.
The 901's were mostly wide fronts.

Some people are scared of narrow fronts. They
don't bother me. Most of your tractors were narrow
fronts. Even the loader tractors were narrow
fronts.
 
I don't own a WF but I usually backblade snow with
the NF up to 6"/8" without a problem. Any more snow
than that I will used the 4000 Ind with front blade,
wheel weight/chains.
I hoping for a mild winter with not much snow. But
probably the only way I'll see that is by moving
south.

Kirk
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Someplace out there is a study done by a university regarding WF VS NF. The WF is safer but only while moving down hill with a load on behind. They did report that unsafe operations like high speed turns the NF was more prone to tipping but that within normal safe operations the only place where the WF was safer was as stated.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 12:48:25 11/09/14) Someplace out there is a study done by a university regarding WF VS NF. The WF is safer but only while moving down hill with a load on behind. They did report that unsafe operations like high speed turns the NF was more prone to tipping but that within normal safe operations the only place where the WF was safer was as stated.

Rick

I have seven tractors, five NF and two WF. In some 45 years of being around farm tractors I have been involved in four near upsets, I was driving at the time of two of them. All four were with WF tractors.
 

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