Re: Never buy a tractor on steel?

Posted by Bill Smith on December 03, 2003 at 11:21:18 from (63.147.130.93):

In Reply to: Never buy a tractor on steel? posted by farmerjohn on November 30, 2003 at 18:16:17:

Steel wheel's are only rough riding when you are on a compacted dirt or rock road or frozen ground. If you are in the feild or on sod, you can't tell much difference between steel and rubber as far as the ride. Although you will find those rocks just under the surface that you can't see. Steel wheel's were outlawed to be on paved roads or bridges. Anybody in there right mind would of taken the lugs off the rear wheel's if doing alot of driving on compacted ground. The only downsides to owning a tractor on steel are 1.you are kind of restricted to where you can drive it (no pavement, no bridges, no cement), 2.if you drive in the same place more than a couple times on sod you will really tear the heck out of the grass (one time doesn't tear it up real awful bad) 3.If you break lugs or where them down bad it is real hard to find replacementes 4.Plan on not driving it at all in mud or even wet ground 5.At this day in age, very few people actually have a use for the steel wheel's over the rubber unlike when these tractors were new. By that I mean, farmers actually did prefer steel over rubber for certain jobs (maybe few jobs) but those jobs are long gone or since been done away with (like row crop cultivating, rubber compacted the ground worse).

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