Went out and played in the mud for a bit today. [pics]

Finally got my new wheels put on the disc and the tractor and went out to play in the dirt for discing up corn stalks. Was way muddier than I thought, but it did rain last night...

Look what you did to those pretty new wheels. I used the WD yesterday to pick some ear corn. Nice running old
tractors. What size disk is that?

Don't look now Will, but I think your tires need a shave. :lol:

Okay, I am confused. Your first tractor pic shows a shiny new rim and tire yet the working pics show an older rusty rim on the right front of tractor.

As for the disc tires: We always simply used well worn car tires on our wheel discs that still had a good casing - as in no cracks or dry rot as tread was never important. Those were always free for the taking. Even a radial car tire worked fine with a tube in at the slow speeds a wheel disc sees even in road transport.

Great pics though

(quoted from post at 18:28:06 10/15/17) Okay, I am confused. Your first tractor pic shows a shiny new rim and tire yet the working pics show an older rusty rim on the right front of tractor.

As for the disc tires: We always simply used well worn car tires on our wheel discs that still had a good casing - as in no cracks or dry rot as tread was never important. Those were always free for the taking. Even a radial car tire worked fine with a tube in at the slow speeds a wheel disc sees even in road transport.

Great pics though

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Ah yes, my bad. I have 2 WDs. The one that got the new rim had to stay in the shed because I found it had a dead battery when I went to start it after putting the rim on. Always something!

Yeah that's what I used to run on this disc, in fact the rims and tires I took off had an old whitewall car tire on it for one side and a really weird zigzag pattern truck tire on the other. I replaced them with a 6 ply implement tire, they were only like $50 a piece, and finding good used 15" tires locally isn't very easy anymore. Hopefully these last a good while.

(quoted from post at 16:01:18 10/15/17) Look what you did to those pretty new wheels. I used the WD yesterday to pick some ear corn. Nice running old
tractors. What size disk is that?

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I think it's an 8' John Deere KBA. And oh yeah, I was like "well, glad I got a picture of them before I dirtied 'em up".

(quoted from post at 17:01:01 10/15/17) Don't look now Will, but I think your tires need a shave. :lol:

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Haha, for sure!

Well, hey, it not too wet if the mud doesn't build up between the disc blades and make
a roller out of the gangs!!!!

Ot is not a KBA as the KBA was the drag type and for wheel disk they just added the carrier, fact is they had a kit to convert the disk you had before wheel disks came out to a wheel disk. In might be a RWA (think that is model) And it shows 8 blades on a side so if the 7" blade spacing it would be a 9'10" or might as well say 10'. Now if it is the 9" blade spacing that to me it does not look like then you have to add 28" so then it would be 12'4". I owned 3 Different KBA disks, 2 drag type and one wheel carried. The KBA is flexible and adjustable angle gang that this one is not.

There used to be all kinds of WD's and WD45's around this area years ago. Now you have to really look unless you know somebody who is heavy into AC. I like that work clothes look on the WD. I've seen the brackets before on the very front of the frame rail but wonder what they are for. Presumably for a loader?

Cultivator. Drive in, and swing around, much like other brands.

Thanks Bob.

Several years ago I bought a quite original WD45, out of nostalgia. I fixed it up and used it around here as a "bush hog" tractor. I tired of it and replaced it with a nice AC 175D last spring. I may tire of that someday. With aging, it's hard to beat things like live PTO, power shift, uncluttered, easy access operators area, etc!

(quoted from post at 18:58:30 10/15/17) Well, hey, it not too wet if the mud doesn't build up between the disc blades and make
a roller out of the gangs!!!!

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Haha, yeah, thankfully it wasn't that bad -- but I did turn around in a mud spot where the front end kept "pushing sideways" and I cut some nasty deep ruts.

(quoted from post at 20:11:39 10/15/17) There used to be all kinds of WD's and WD45's around this area years ago. Now you have to really look unless you know somebody who is heavy into AC. I like that work clothes look on the WD. I've seen the brackets before on the very front of the frame rail but wonder what they are for. Presumably for a loader?

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Yep, like Bob said, they're for cultivators. I actually had different ones on the tractor I put the new rim on, but traded off that cultivator. It had shovel blade looking pieces on it, instead of these "C" claw fork like pieces on there now. I just think they look cool. I also have had the corn picker mesh screen on the front ever since I got the one tractor 20+ years ago.

(quoted from post at 19:40:06 10/15/17) Ot is not a KBA as the KBA was the drag type and for wheel disk they just added the carrier, fact is they had a kit to convert the disk you had before wheel disks came out to a wheel disk. In might be a RWA (think that is model) And it shows 8 blades on a side so if the 7" blade spacing it would be a 9'10" or might as well say 10'. Now if it is the 9" blade spacing that to me it does not look like then you have to add 28" so then it would be 12'4". I owned 3 Different KBA disks, 2 drag type and one wheel carried. The KBA is flexible and adjustable angle gang that this one is not.

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After looking up some photos online, it sure does seem like it is an RWA. I would have to agree it is at best a 10'. It does an okay job, but it doesn't really like to pull straight and it seems to hump up a bit in the middle, and the discs are a bit worn down and beat up. But the price was right.

(quoted from post at 20:24:35 10/15/17) Several years ago I bought a quite original WD45, out of nostalgia. I fixed it up and used it around here as a "bush hog" tractor. I tired of it and replaced it with a nice AC 175D last spring. I may tire of that someday. With aging, it's hard to beat things like live PTO, power shift, uncluttered, easy access operators area, etc!

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I actually like mowing with my WD because of the live PTO with the hand clutch/foot clutch (so I can spin up the PTO and hold the brake and then start moving once I'm at full spin on the mower). I keep thinking one of these days I'll put that new muffler on it, too...

google "AC WD row crop cultivator".

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I think it's an 8' John Deere KBA. And oh yeah, I was like "well, glad I got a picture of them before I dirtied 'em up".

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If I counted disk per shaft correctly(8) JD disk harrow is a 11'2'' model RWA

ok question, your clutch pedal is in a good place, mine is all the way back almost to the axle housing on my wd, i lowered the top adjustment, the foot pad itself, but no help, how can i move the pedal like yours is? the clutch works fine and has a long throw, but its hard to get a foot on the thing

(quoted from post at 11:07:25 10/17/17) ok question, your clutch pedal is in a good place, mine is all the way back almost to the axle housing on my wd, i lowered the top adjustment, the foot pad itself, but no help, how can i move the pedal like yours is? the clutch works fine and has a long throw, but its hard to get a foot on the thing

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Honestly, I do not know... My clutches both seem to have a long throw, but they move well past the "nub" on the edge of the frame rail that would stop them from going forward due to lots of side to side travel. The one tractor seems to almost "snap" back to position, the other one just kind of smoothly slides back. I should look into that more.

Okay, so a newly charged battery, and I took both tractors out for a spin this morning in the bitter cold.





That new wheel stands out like a sore thumb, don't she?