Super 88 wheatland front?

Olliejunkie

Well-known Member
I mentioned this in another thread. Never have seen this configuration of front and rear end. Is this the beginning of the wheatland?
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Yes,I believe that was what they called a Wheatland wasn't it? I don't think they called them a Standard anymore at that point.
 
The standard would've had fixed rear wheels and front axle would be set back further I think. Or did they even make a super 88 standard? Anyway it's just one more I have to find.
 
Somebody wrote about that in an article about them. Did they do away with the small wheeled ones when they went to the improved Super? I'd have to go back and find the article.
 
I do not know if it is true but I was told years ago the 88 standard was in fact a super. But instead of calling them a super 88 standard they just called them standards
 
Row crop non adjustable. The "regular" wide front option was called "four wheel adjustable tread". Wheatland and Standard did not have the high arch, and had the spindles in line with the
axle.
 
the standard 88 was built till 1954,... then from 54-58 the super 88's were built. the super's had larger bore engine. not the same tractor. basically the same sort of deal as the mccormick w6 and super 6 or farmall m and super m.
 
I just pulled out the article that Kevin wrote about them in the Sept/Oct 2015 HPOC. There's too much there to type it all,but I can gave the Reader's Digest version.
It says there were four axles available,wide adjustable,dual narrow,single and standard. It said the standard front axle model could be equipped with 38 inch rear tires.
Farther down in the paragraph it says "Since a Wheatland tractor was no longer available,the dealer had to order a row crop tractor and specify a standard front axle". The it goes in to the price of fender extensions and splash guards. Then it says there were two axle for the true Standard configuration. A forged axle on the 54 models and a solid steel straight axle on the Standard and Orchards after that. It says this axle was shorter than the industrial axle and should not be confused with the standard front axle used on the row crop tractors.

Here's one of the most interesting things. It's the last sentence in that paragraph. It says "The Standard model was discontinued at serial number 41379.".

So it looks to me like the one in the picture with the 38 inch tires and standard front axle would be what passed for a Wheatland since a true Wheatland wasn't offered anymore,and the one with the fixed rear tread was a Standard.
 
As was mentioned there were two true standard tread front axles. The diesel picture would be a true standard that axle was only used till early 1955 with a 10+++ serial number. The one Oliver junkie asked about is a rowcrop non adjustable front axle. We have several here in flat northwest Ohio used by tomato growers because they turned shorter than and adjustable front axle so they liked them for spreading hampers.
 
(quoted from post at 16:20:58 02/18/18) As was mentioned there were two true standard tread front axles. The diesel picture would be a true standard that axle was only used till early 1955 with a 10+++ serial number. The one Oliver junkie asked about is a rowcrop non adjustable front axle. We have several here in flat northwest Ohio used by tomato growers because they turned shorter than and adjustable front axle so they liked them for spreading hampers.
. I’m restoring a super 88 std. serial number 53631-812. Build date 9/11/57. True red wheel.
 

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