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How did Nancy do this?

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James Howell

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Two weeks ago I was mowing with the Ford 2810 ( yes, I am an equal opportunity employer ) and noticed the front tire wobbling like a wheel on a clown car.

Upon further inspection I noticed that the rim had about an 8" to 10" split.

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The wheel is only 25 years old and should have lasted at least another 25 years!

Even the guys at the tire shop were impressed with the damage.

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Oh well, I guess maybe the Ford isn't meant to last as long as the Deere.

And no Nancy did not damage the wheel, I just wanted to get your attention.
 
Ford didn't really learn to put metal into wheels until the early 90's or so. You have an old style wheel on a light tractor. It's thin and hard. When it gets old it breaks.
Iffin it was mine, I'd get a new one, and take the other one off. Sandblast both. Check the old one for fatigue when it's blasted, and if it's good, prime them and pain with a polymide epoxy paint. Then it will last. Do the new wheel too...

Rod
 
Turning hard with a full bucket of material in the loader will do that to some brittle rims.
 
We decided that the other wheel may also have problems.

The other wheel was leaking where it was welded to the rim.

Went ahead an bought two new heavy-duty wheels and another new tire.

Hope now we are good to go for another 25 years.
 
You make a good point.

We use the Ford to move all the round bales to the trailer and from the trailer to the hay shed.
 
I would still blast them clean, have them primed and then coated with an epoxy paint. That's what I do with mine anyway.
I've bought new wheels from Ford that already had rust boiling through the paint. They don't put much on them.

Also, if you have a loader on that tractor, you can expect broken wheels, broken hubs, broken axle bolts, worn out center pin, and busted spindles. It's part of life with having a loader on an axle basically designed for an 8N...

Rod
 
Upgrading to heavier-duty generic rims (as sold by millertire.com, for example) will greatly reduce this happening again.

Additionally, upgrading to a wider rim and tire will greatly improve tractor steering and grip performance with a loader.
 
What ever you do don't let Nancy read this.---I'd blame it on her for an excuse to get another Deere. You could say something like Fords are unsafe, and you were thinking of her safety. ooops!! I forgot about the sin of lying. Is there a difference of maybe a small fib?? LOL!!
 
Very easy to answer. That ford is way to new to have been made well so ya parts will not last like ones made in the 50s or older. So its a simple problem your tractor is to new, sell it and buy one that was made to last like say an 801 ford. LOL
Hobby farm
 
original rims on some tractors are pretty lightweight since they were built when most farmers used a loader very little the new replacement rims are usually very heavy duty
 
When we first got the loader on the tractor, I was crossing a terrace at an angle as required and the large pin that secures the front end snapped.

You can guess what happened.

Front end "united" with the bottom of the radiator.

Thankfully no damage to the fan or water pump.
 
Yes, the 1983 Ford is the newest tractor we have.

My dad bought it new and financed it at the bank where I was working.

Only thing he ever bought on credit besides land.

It has been a good tractor and has seen more than its share of work around the farm.

I really like your family B on skeleton wheels.

That is a great old tractor.
 
We had a choice of "regular" wheels and "heavy duty" so we went with the heavier wheels.

Decided to pay a little extra and maybe avoid problems late down the road.

Almost fainted when Nancy quoted me the prices.
 
Believe it or not the tire did not go flat.

The tube that was in it had a slow leak from rubbing on the tear.

Soon as I saw the problem, tractor was shut down and lowered the loader to remove pressure on the front end.

Walked a 1/4 mile back to the house to get the tire tool and spare.

Gave me plenty of time to think how in the world I had ruined that wheel.
 
Ya its ok but can be a pain to start some times. It burns oil but shoot the head hasn't been off that tractor ever and if it has been then it would have been way back in the 40s when it was off. I just run it like it is smoke and all I figure since it was my grand fathers as long as it runs I'll not do any work to it
Hobby farm
 
Many people around here have had similar problems with 3020, 4020, 706, 806, etc with loaders on them when they started using round bales. I put wider tires on our 4020, which has helped. 10.00 by 16 is what I used. Just a thought.
 
Ditto on that one! We installed the larger tires and rims on both our 3020 and 4020 loader tractors as well..............
 
Thanks for the additional advise on larger tires.

Will definitely keep that in mind when the tires need to be replaced.
 
On this walk back to the house, I got to see one of our Red Tail hawks up close in a tree.

One the walk back to the tractor, I got to see one of our deer (buck) up close.

He almost ran over me coming out of the woods.

He stopped about 30 feet away and was hoping that he became "invisable" once he put on the brakes.

Two very good "diversions" from the every day stress of modern living.
 
Still a very neat old tractor to be proud of.

Because it was your grandfather's tractor makes it very special, regardless of its mechanical condition.

My granddaddy never owned a tractor and I often wonder how he got as much work done as he did.

He was a cotton farmer and I was told by an old-timer the he used mules to "tend" the field.
 
I also have the owners manual that came with the tractor when it was new. Its old yellow and is now easy to rip the pages on it so I keep it in a plastic bag in my file box. I still rake hay with the old tractor almost every year. It was my moms dads tractor and he got it in 1940, she told me I could sell it but not for a penny less then $100,000.00 and then she said if I could get that we would split it 50/50
Hobby farm
 
The same thing happens to car and truck rims when load and/or inflation exceeds manufacturers recommendations. A friend of mine who was going to take a load of young people on a mission trip to Mexico got a good deal on some heavy duty tires for his van. Of course the tires called for more pressure than the original tires. On the way back through Texas, a rim split and the van rolled a few times. Miraculously, no one was killed or seriously injured. One of the other rims had a crack starting.

None of the front end components on these tractors were engineered for some of the loaders and loads that are going on them these days. If we upgrade each "weakest link" as it fails, we usually come to wish that we had bought into The Strong One to begin with. The best to you. Have fun, be safe!
 
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