Never saw a Fordson like this

A group of Fordsons at the ACAEC show. One had these wheels and the very narrow rear housing.

Nice! All of them are really nice.

We've never seen one with a front end like that... nor rear wheels like that.

...Are those re-purposed treads from a crawler tractor?!?!?

Aftermarket made several variations, and I believe Ford did also. I grew up with one like the right rear.

My dad designed and made an adjustable wide front end on that Fordson before the various manufacturers ever thought of it.

I've never seen any like that either, sure would like to have in my collection...

The third one back in the last picture had tracks. There were two more to the right but that was the only one with the narrow housing.

Original run flats..

Allis Chalmers made a narrowed version of the B known as the
"potato special". I wonder if this tractor had a similar purpose.
The narrow front end looks like it may have been an aftermarket
bolt on type of conversion for cultivating/short turning radius.

I can just feel the shuddering when driving on a hard packed gravel road. Sweet images. Jim

Those floppy lugs on those wheels look like TRAK TOE LUGS invented by Clayton L. Curtis,a local entrepreneur here in Sherburne. My father worked several years in his shop building the Chenango Camp Trailers. During hurricane Hazel he came up and helped my father nail cleats on each rafter, to keep the roof from blowing off. The roof was going up and down like waves on the lake. He was born in a small town west of here called South Otselic and in his younger days probably 1920s he was chauffeur for Ben Gladding of Gladding fish line fame. He sure was an interesting man. He told me about the time he bought an International tractor on steel the one with the hood that sloped down in the front and a thrashing machine and drove it from Syracuse to South Otselic. Also the time he was demonstrating to his crew where not to put their fingers and lost 3 of his. Before he died at 96 yrs old I took him to a tractor show where he sat on a tractor like the one he bought, that sure put a big grin on his face. Somewhere around here I have some of the literature of those lugs that he had printed up. He told me that Henry Ford told him he could have made him a rich man but this was about the time Allis Chalmers started putting rubber tires on tractors.

The Fordson with cleat type wheels (row crop) is a Fordson All-Around with a different/aftermarket front wheel and with that steering set up they were referred to as chicken rooster steering. There's a fellow out east restoring a number of Fordsons and one is an All around google Fordson all-Around.
GB in MN

That single front wheel is just a standard Fordson with a Moline built row crop front for use with the cultivators Moline built for the Fordson long before the all around was built. And all the All Around tractors had a rear axle that the wheels would slide on like the JD A, B & G and farmal F-12 & F-14 and the H & M tractors. That tractor does not have those adjustable rear wheels. Now Moline did make a axle that was adjustable for use with their cultivators on the Fordson but that conversion still used the orignal size wheels that were more like a 10x18 tire instead of the 10x38 on the All Around models.

Yea now that I looked again its not an All-Around, thanks for the information on the moline kit Leroy.
GB in MN

I have no input on the manufacturer or design of the items, but it looks like a setup for use in sand.

/ A lot of years ago I bought a cross motor Case tractor that had those Lugs on it and the old man that owned it said they were Van Lugs ? Said they were for use on clay ground and were self cleaning ? I don't know but it sounded good. The Auctioneer was from South Ott. The slant hood IH Tractor was a 8 X 16