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Being a eastern boy and having no experance with them, what was the advantage of the weatland style tractors. They seem to have been made in all hp ranges. Its hard for me to think they pull better with smaller tires Thanks ED
 
Actually the footprint of the tires would be about the same. Here in Ohio they were called a standard tread tractor (Some of the wheatlands had bigger fenders) and were used for the tillage while smaller tractors did the planting-cultivating. We had both a John Deere A rowcrop narrow front and a AR low built and wide front. The orignal tire size on the A was 11 X 38 and the AR 13 X 26 so even with the smaller diameter the wider width of them gave about the same total sq in of foot print area so you still had the same amount of traction. The tractors were geared so that they had the same speeds except for 1st gear the AR was slower but we never used first anyways but for pto powered items that required a very slow speed the AR was better than the A but always used 2nd on PTO in either.
 
They were intended for pulling, so didn"t need to be built high for row-crop work. Before cabs, those fenders and enclosed fronts kept some wind away from the operator- Plains are always windy.
 
Only seen narrow rowcrops in some of the small tractors 40/420/430/50/520/530 around here.
Most were Dubuques were still U,S,W or wide T's.For scuffling/cultivating between the corn rows.
Wide front rowcrops were unheard of. Medium to large tractors such as the 60/620/630/70/720/730 were all standards with pto & rockshaft.
Never seen the oddball big tractors with little front ends until collectors/pullers brought them in from the central/eastern US.
Even the rowcrops had fenders too.
 
To show how common the wheatland models were, I was probably 12 or 13 before I ever saw a narrow front axled tractor. All had wide fronts from what I had seen until then. That was about 1958-59. 3 pt. implements were very rare too.

While the tires were generally smaller in diameter, weren't they generally wider than a row crop tire? As others stated about the same footprint on the ground for traction.

Don't know about the row crops, but the wheatlands generally had a long stroke engine to provide plenty of raw torque. Expect they may have been the same in row crop models.
 
This is my Wheatland tractor a 1945 Case LA 403 CID 58 Draw bar power 4 to 5 plow tractor. Long stroke 4 cyl. wngine with lots of low end torque. Very heavy tractor 8,000 and up with weights and filled tires mine runs around 8,900 with driver and no weights. Tractor was made for large fields where you set the plow and direction and just sat back and went for a ride. No power steering and very hard to turn around so you needed a lot of room at the other end of the field. Very popular in Kansas and Nebraska.

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This today's Case wheatland tractor 450 HP Quad tract. Can easlily pull a 10 bottom plow.

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dad had a 1030 case wheatland.had 23.1x30 tires on it they where alot wider than the 18.4x34 that were the same outside dia.
 
Ive got a W-9 IH with 16.9-34 tires and a 400 with 15.5-38 tires.There is very little difference in tire height when pulled up side by side.I pulled the W-9 this year and beat all the row crop tractors with 15.5-38 tires.2nd place tractor finished 23 feet behind my distance.
 
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