Re: Wide front end for Farmall H

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 02, 2005 at 14:51:21 from (209.226.106.86):

In Reply to: Re: Wide front end for Farmall H posted by Mikey on December 02, 2005 at 14:10:44:

Mickey: Operator is exactly right and that is precisely why my farm through two generations and roughly 150,000 hours of tractor time never had a lost time accident.

It was also end of row crop cultivation that ended production of narrow front tractors, and not the folks that imagined they were unsafe. As tractors got heavier with more weight up front narrow front did tend to bog down more in soft ground. I baled roughly 35,000 bales per year with 300 pulling wagon behind. Many times that old 300 did 4,000 to 5,000 bales per day. The 560 and 656 never exceeded that amount, why, because the narrow front 300 was more agile. I don't think I would have wanted a 6 cylinder diesel with narrow front. Also the larger tillage equipment we were starting to see in the late 60s, I think a narrow front would have created problems turning. It would have taken a lot more brake wear.

I saw the same problem when I went to the 1066 with conventional wide front. If one wasn't careful turning by not using enough brake that tractor would bury it's front axle. I dualed that tractor to get more traction without compaction, and that only made turning worse. If I had it to do again I would only buy a 100hp+ tractor in a 4x4 version. My neighbor had one and he could turn with 25' cultivator in ground and never touch the brake pedal. That is what I liked about the articulated, it's ability to turn under heavy load. It was all an evolution, to me narrow front was great up to 50 hp, by the time we reached 100 hp the conventional wide front was history. Where we go from here, who knows?

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