Amish Tractor Wheels ????

For Y'all up in Amish Country!!
After seeing Larry's pics of the Amish Farmer market in Pa. The Tractors with Steel wheels! Begs the Questions....
Who makes them?
Where are they made!
What do they cost?!
looks like they can be used on pavement!
might be a good alternative wheel choice in our Texas Mesquite clearing Operation.
What do any of Y'all Know about them???
I have never seen any in Texas. We have Mennonites here but they use regular ol rubber tires.
Thanks
Later,
John A.

Mennonits use rubber its the old order Amish that some still use steel. Do you want to contac how to get some as i live close and can find out where ,type and cost.

Gene;

I would like to know where to get the wheels and cost. My drill has wood wheels with rubber tires fit and wired to the rims. I might need to replace them some day.

Larry

You are confusing Mennonites with OLD ORDER AMISH. Most OLD OLD ORDER still use steel but not all depends on the Bishop and area.Do you want info on how to get some for your tractor as i can find out from a place nearby.

That's where you're wrong. We have two orders of Mennonites here. One uses rubber tires and drive cars. The old order use steel wheels on everything,tractors,skid steers,even riding lawn mowers. They use horse and buggy. All the Amish orders here farm with horses.
As far as I know,there's a place in Indiana I believe that makes all their wheels,but I don't know just where or what the name of the place is.

I would like more information also.
Who makes them?
Where are they made?
What do they cost?
Thanks

In some areas in Indiana the Amish use rubber tires on tractors for some purposes. I sold the wheels, tires and hubs off one of my Oliver 77's to put one that had steel wheels. They outlawed steel wheels for road use in an area over close to Fort Wayne. I met an Amish with a rubber tractor pulling a rubber tired manure spreader on a back road over by Nappanee Indiana. In the same area an Amish place had a large rubber tired tractor on a rubber tired feed grinder. That same place had horses working out in a field.

wow
always alot of confusion on the Mennonites and amish.

there are many sects so you can't lump them into any category.

Around north central Indiana all "Mennonite" use regular tractors. Some Amish still are not allowed to use tractors other than maybe grinding corn and filling silo. The amish here that do have tractors, most still use steel wheeled tractors BUT. the somehow stretch (or fab the steel wheel inside the tire) a regular tractor tire over the steel. they even do that for hay wagons and i've seen a skid loader or 2 that way.
-some can not have tractors but can have skid loaders so they drive them everywhere. See many on busy highways pulling 1 or 2 hay wagons backwards. even saw one pulling 2 wagons making a left turn down a blind hill a few weeks ago.

Who makes them..?? any number of the hundred amish black-smith/steel fab shops scattered around the state. sometimes you see them at an auction here and there. and a junk yard or 2

there is quite a variety of them too. some fab them to a cast wheel centre and some go from the axle out

Always thought they be good to put on an elevator or feed bunk something that doesnt get moved much but always has a flat when you want to

The mennonites in my part of the world use all the new technology the world provides.
The only way you can tell them apart is by the way the women dress.

The Amish here in Pa make some of their own, but I don't know any of them who offer them for sale. But if there is money involved I am sure they would make a set or two.There are still steel wheels around off of Farmall H & M's, and other tractors. A lot of the time they just cut the tread off of tires and bolt it onto the steel band, minus the lugs of course. I have tried disking, plowing and road traveling on steel wheels and it is an experience. One day I mowed about 3 acres using an F14 on steel. My back hurt so bad I couldn't sleep that evening.

Anybody wants a set, I'll make them a deal. I have a set on my 400 Farmall that will fit an H or M (single bevel rear and adjustable 3-loop front). Very heavy and well made. They are more fun to drive than I want.

I know they are out there. They make machinery too. I have seen ads in some magazine or paper here in Amish country. wouldn't surprise me if they have a website but darned if I can think of the name. I tried googleing all I could think of.
I guess you will just have to take a road trip to Holmes county Ohio ! Or PA

They make em here in IOWA wht tractor will you be using them on and what wouls be the use cause the heavier the tractor and use the heavier the wheels. I can find out the price,wt ect but need to know what tractor. Not hard to make depending on the use for lite work 1/4x8 with angle welded at 45 deg for traction would do a lot. Just weld tabs to the rims to fit your centers. Im sure those in the pics were very expensive as they are used in the fields for general farming.

Here's one to ponder My Wife's Grandfather was Mennonite AND a John Deere Dealer.

I was born and went to the Mennonite High SCHOOL here and was the first graduate to go to the ARMY there is only one group of Mennonites other groups are spin offs of the OLD ORDER AMISH and it still goes on. We have here the largest group of OLD ORDER AMISH west of the Mississippi and there are several groups here in this area. Spin off is due to the Bishop what he will allow.

We have both Amish and Mennonites in the area. The Amish NEVER use a tractor. The Mennonites on the other hand do so some one has something wrong since the Amish do not have them are at least the old faith one do not

I have a set of steel wheels on an AC 5040 had them
on it when bought and never needed to run the tractor on the road most all I use it for is with a 5ft tiller.Never had a flat with them yet.Several shops in PA build them that I know of funny Amish rarely ever bid on a used set at and auction.

I live amongst the Amish. Depends what the elders, bishops of the particular group say. I've Amish on one side of the road have open buggies that have to use umbrellas in the rain, but are allowed propane refriderators, yet across the road in a different group enclosed buggies, no propane. I've seen buggies with aired up car tires on them, but haven't seen one of those in years. I've seen zero-turns on one side of the road, sickles on the other. I remember seeing one Amish farmer on an Oliver Cletrac. I know an Amish farmer that has and uses his Rumley Oil Pull M regularly. I drove, but he went with me to look over a smaller "L" early this past Spring. Helped me start it, but another fella out bid me on it. One of my friends that sold Poulan chainsaws gave one to a bishop, whom then allowed them into his group, so my friend made some pretty good money selling them to them. There's one over by my brother that has one heck of a trash pump for sale with a huge Cummins powering it, yet all of his farming is draft horse, as is most out by me. Something else. Just because something is allowed or accepted today, a bishop can pull the plug on it tomorrow, and out it goes. Down by my brother, there's some nice Chevy pickups parked next to them buggies in the driveways of houses using oil lamps, propane fridges, and electric out to the barn with wells using PEX. The Amish fellas that put up my newest barn used battery powered tools, like screw guns and circular saws.

And, I did date a Mennonite girl for awhile. Her father had a 350 acre dairy farm, Ford 8N, and my girlfriend drove a Ford Elite with a 460 in it. She was a fun girl too.

Mark

Lehmans non electric maybe??

https://www.lehmans.com/

I just returned from visiting my son in Wi. who lives amongst a group of old order Mennonite. I used to live there also. I have a lot of Mennonite friends. The old order Mennonites use modern tractors fitted with steel wheels but use a horse and buggy to travel to town and church. There are also new order Mennonites in the area who drive cars and trucks and rubber tired tractors. The owner started out doing tractor repair in a garage about 20'X30'.
Hoover metals of Curtiss Wi. has made steel wheels since about 1995. He also makes just about anything a farmer would ever need made from steel.
I took my grandson out with me and we brought back a bale grabber made in his shop. We toured the shop and saw 2 big CNC lathes, large shears, rollers used to make the wheels, a computerized table for plasma cutting of steel pieces and other things. The day we were there the crew was building manure tanks for trucks and one fella was making new axles for a manure tanker. I didn't get any pictures of tractor wheels but have pictures of skid steer wheels and what appears to be a Case telehandler.
He makes several different attachments for skidsteers. I saw an apron chain for a Potato Digger he made when we picked up the bale grabber.





Hoover Metals

Forgot to mention, while i was out in Wi, I went to Hoover's to borrow a large clevis for a tractor pull in Curtiss and he sent me to his machinery shed to get it off his big Case IH tractor. I didn't look at the numbers on the 4 wheel drive tractor, but it was bigger than the JD 4960 I used to drive. I had steel wheels front and back. The back ones were the equivalent of 42" rubber tires and around 22or24 inches wide. Also when I lived there I used to see Amish driving rubber tired tractors to Fleet Farm in Marshfield. They were pulling an enclosed trailer with the family inside and the must have done something to the gearing because they would move down the road 25 to 30 mpg.

I don't know where they get their wheels but I'll tell you what I love going through their area here in West Central, IN. They have the some of the nicest kept houses and farms, cattle and dairies everywhere with little one room schoolhouses. I'm friends with one of them and he welds and repairs/sells smaller equipment and farms 80 acres for a living. He has worked on some equipment for me in the past. He has a loader tractor with steel wheels. Some Amish here use the smaller stuff like small balers and 4 row planters, corn pickers, etc. Its great, I always picture it as what it would be like to drive through rural Indiana in the 50's. I'd like to trade about 10 of the "big" farmers for them. You can take the one guy farming 4000 acres with GPS and send me 50 Amish 80 acre farmers any day. And those guys have decent houses, own their own ground and raise big families and don't have any debt.