Farmall F-20/30 with add-on FWD

Tramway Guy

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Was watching the PBS documentary ?The Swamp? about the Everglades the other night and they had a still photo of a F20 or F30 that had an add-on front drive axle with big tires on it. Looked like maybe it drove off of the engine crankshaft.
I?ve tried to find the picture elsewhere, with no luck.
Anybody else see it?
 

Yes there was a photo & discussion on the pre-‘39 IHC Facebook group. It was not 4 wheel drive, just had large lugged front tires on it for working wet ground.
 
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Here’s the photo.
 
Is the front end really driven, though? Or, are they just large front wheels for flotation?

Looking at that picture I can see "knees" like a normal 2WD wide front end. I don't see how the front wheels are driven.

Belarus and Kubota had those cockamaime front ends where the wheels were driven through a bevel gear, down the knee, and through another bevel gear to the hub, but I'm thinking 1930's technology wasn't at that level. 1930's tech would have been a drop box and a chain, or straight from the differential into the hub of the wheel:

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I tried to find that discussion in my limited time this morning at home, and BookFace is blocked at work, but what is the big dog
bone shaped piece on the front, above the crank? Dont think Ive ever seen that before.
 
(quoted from post at 21:06:09 01/28/19) Was watching the PBS documentary ?The Swamp? about the Everglades the other night and they had a still photo of a F20 or F30 that had an add-on front drive axle with big tires on it. Looked like maybe it drove off of the engine crankshaft.
I?ve tried to find the picture elsewhere, with no luck.
Anybody else see it?

That is a wide front F30 with a heavy cast front weight mounted to the front of the bolster/culticator mounts. I like the dual cane wheels on the back.
 

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