Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: convert super c to wide front end

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 19, 2003 at 15:05:06 from (64.228.11.113):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: convert super c to wide front end posted by hayhauler on March 19, 2003 at 14:13:56:

I personally like narrow fronts, there is absolutely nothing will match a C, SC, 200, 230 or 240 with a narrow front on a side delivery rake. The Super As and other offsets come close, but no cigar. I never owned one but have used them. Those rear wheels should be set a minamum 66" centers, that will give you good stability. We used to set the larger H, 300, etc at 72" centers.

My dad started farming in late 1930s with a Fordson, by 42 it was a new W4. In 1951 he bought a new H narrow front, also bought the wide front just in case he didn't like the narrow. Within two years he sold the wide front. In 1955 he bought a 300 narrow front and that tractor was on the farm for 30 odd years, and really was worked all those years.

My dad went to visit an old friend oneday. An old guy in his 80s. When my dad arrived old guy was sitting on his front step of house elbows on knees and head between his palms, Farmall H with narrow front on its side in the middle of level yard. He told my dad he didn't feel comfortable driving tractor anymore, so he hired this younger man to help put in his firewood for winter. He said to my dad," I have had that tractor since it was new in 1944, been all over farm with it, did all the work here for many years. How in H#$% could some @#$%^&^%$#@ idiot upset it in the middle of door yard."

Tractors and all tractors require caution when driving. I am sure you will instill upon your son the need for caution. He will go through his teen years driving that Super C with narrow front. You know something else, if he safely uses the SC, you will never worry about him when he takes to the highway. The very best driving schools we ever had across North America, were when farmers could hire kids, and I mean pre teens to operate tractors without fear of liability. My dad started a kid raking hay when he eight years old. Not playing around either, he was raking for a baler that was doing 2,500 bales per day. That kid is now 45 years old and has been a long haul trucker since he was 20, has seen every stste in the union, every province in Canada and has yet to put more than a scratch on a motor vehicle.

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