Re: Re: Super A Industrial

Posted by Paul in Mich on January 23, 2004 at 12:29:01 from (68.188.227.110):

In Reply to: Re: Super A Industrial posted by Hugh MacKay on January 23, 2004 at 06:35:09:

Hugh, While I too think that the square axle is ugly, I believe I understand the reason they used them on the industrials. As more than one person has explained to me is that the A-I's were marketed to city, county, and state govt agencies for a lot of different applications as well as to airport facilities for snow removal in places that the big trucks couldnt get to. But back to Govt use. So many of the A-I's were equiped with sickle bar mowers used to mow along roads and hughways.and ditchbanks. These banks and roadways had obsticles that could be extreemly hard on the front end such as washouts, critter holes, rocks, just to name a few. The square axle had the whole outer shell to absorb the shock rather than the pins on the round tubes on the straight A's. Thats not to say that the spiindles cant be bent or broken, but the constant abuse didnt waller out the pin holes as on the round axles. my question always was why did IH deem it necessary to manufacture both types? My 1940 A has about a 10 degree back rake on the spindles from 64 years of use. Having said all this, I still think the square tubes are ugly, but someone else may think them quite cute......

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