b farmall wide frt ?

But over the years someone may easily have adapated a wide front from something else to one.

I have a friend with some hilly land that owns a nice B. It has a belly mower on it, and he used it to cut the grass. A few years ago he had some health problems and his daughter wanted to keep the grass cut to help him out.

He was concerened about her inexperience running the tractor on the hilly ground, and asked if a wide front could be fitted to it.

We installed a wide front from an A on it, and in his mind he felt much better for her safety.

He kept the orginal narrow front, just in case he ever wants to return it back to orginal or sell it to someone else.

We all have seen custom things made and used on farm equipment. Whenever my dad saw something like that he would say; "Looky at that, it's been "Farmer Made" to suit someones needs".

• Hobby farm

Most you see like this are either As with longer differential shaft and housing put on the left (making them more like the width of a BN) or Bs that have had a wide front (from an A or elsewhere) mounted up.

Things for your friend to check are the chassis serial number (On a plate on the inside of the left seat support). If it's there, the prefix of the serial number will tell you what the tactor started life as, esecially if the numeric part of the ser# matches the # on the engine (on the block, just below the number one plug, kinda obscured by the throttle control link to the governor). The chassis # should start with FA. The third position will be the model #, as in FAA or FAB (or even FABN in the case of a BN). He should also look to see if the wide front is centered on the tractor. Also, on a true B, the right-hand seat support, looking from the rear, is mounted to a bracket on the seat support so that there is a gap of several inches between the seat support and the fender. On As and BNs, the right-hand support is mounted to the final drive, so that there is very little room between.