70 row crop question.

Matt Huls · Jul 19, 2014

I am looking at buying a Oliver 70. Did these tractors ever come with spoke wheels on the rear? If so what yr are they produced?

rrlund · Jul 19, 2014

The answer is yes. I couldn't tell you the years they were offered but this was my uncles 37 with spokes and duals.

Larry NEIL · Jul 19, 2014

I have never seen an ad that offered them as options, not sayin they couldn't have been bought somewhere though.
Looke at the casting numbers on the hubs, it was not unusal at all to cut the spokes from steel wheels and weld a rim on them for rubber tires..

IH3688 · Jul 19, 2014

I have a restored one for sale, cast rear wheels. It is in MN 320-492-3084 Kory

rrlund · Jul 20, 2014

I've got the pair in the background on one down back. I never looked for any markings on them,but they're 40s,not cutoffs as far as I can tell. Somebody was saying they looked like French and Hecht,but I honestly don't know if they were factory of if they replaces tip toe's.

Larry NEIL · Jul 20, 2014

I agree Randy, looked at your photo and looks like round spokes that are set into the hub. (fantastic picture) The hub in the looks just like the hub on my 18-27 row crop, but it is on cut-offs.

rankrank1 · Jul 20, 2014

Sometimes it is easy to tell when the spokes were cut from steel wheels and a pneumatic rim welded in its place. And sometimes it is not so easy...

It took some real skill to weld those thin rims onto those thicker spokes with an old crude AC buzzbox tapped machine stick welder (likely what most shops whether real business or backyard farmer had back in the late 1940's and 1950's).

I have seen some welding rim conversion jobs that were quite crude. On the other hand there were also some real craftsmen back then that took the crudest of tools (in an AC buzzbox) and laid down factory looking welds and looked like the rim was originally built that way. Anyway you slice it is not an easy weld to make with a stick welder without burning through the rim but it can be done if one possesses enough skill and talent. I tip my hat to those old craftsmen on what they accomplished with very little to work with.

ss55 · Jul 20, 2014

rrlund,
Deere also used some round spoked rear wheels for some of their first rubber tires, 36 inch F&H brand wheels? Check on the Deere forum, round spoked wheels for Deere's have some value there.

If that is a the potato digger in the foreground, does still work? When I was a kid we would borrow a neighbor's potato plow, that saved a lot of stooped-over labor.

Matt Huls · Jul 20, 2014

The potato digger is awesome. I've never seen one before. What company made that?

rrlund · Jul 20, 2014

It's an IH. My Grand dad bought that one new as far as I know. It's been sitting a while but "worked when parked". The cast wheels for the trucks that go under the front got broken a long time ago. It worked good if it was hooked to the 3 point. You could just raise up at the end and turn around with it running.

Vernon in Ks · Jul 22, 2014

Well no one else asked soo. Can the potato digger be bought?

rrlund · Jul 22, 2014

No,that's a family heirloom. I had to go get it once from a guy who borrowed it and kept it for a few years.

puln70 · Jul 25, 2014

I know I"m a few days late here but I have a 1937 w/round spokes & I"ve been told they were made by F&H for when you converted to rubber they are 36"
pretty narrow maybe 6" wide,they also made front round spokes too & I"d sure like to find a set.

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