Re: Dilemma

Posted by LJR on December 10, 2007 at 10:15:22 from (24.185.243.190):

In Reply to: Dilemma posted by Mike CA on December 06, 2007 at 20:30:20:

These wheels are pretty rare today. Most steel-wheeled H and M tractors were sold during WWII when rubber was scarce. Most farmers couldn't wait to get rubber on them (because most farmers in those days had had years of experience on steel, bumping up and down on hard surfaces, AND wasting a lot of power in the bargain--notice those old ratings of tractors: 10-20 meant that only about half the engine horsepower reached the drawbar; on rubber, this tractor might be a 15-20). After the war, most of the wartime tractors were probably converted to rubber. Lots of them still have the cutoff, flat-spoked wheels.
Two men can certainly "handle" these wheels, if they are careful. They ARE heavy, and could fall if you lose your balance while trying to roll them. You can certainly get them on a trailer with a come-along.
I've never actually removed or replaced a heavy tractor wheel. I'd imagine about a four-man job--maybe three to hold the wheel up, and one to jack the tractor up and down to slide the axle through the wheel mounting hole. Plenty of room for an accident, especially if the tractor is held up ONLY by a jack under the axle. Another gambit might be to hoist the wheel from the ceiling joists and bring it down to meet the axle.
Ask the guys here. Many of them are really experienced with this stuff. I haven't worked on a big tractor in quite a few years.
Anyway, you should have a great show tractor on steel, and if you can figure out a fairly easy way to change wheels, you could have the tractor on rubber so's you wouldn't destroy your yard every time you got it out. Wives don't always understand these things. I got mine to understand that I needed a tractor last summer when we decided (together!) that the 8-acre "hay" (weed?) field in front of our place needed to be kept cut a couple of times a summer.
She knows that getting to play farmer once a week really makes me a great guy to live with, and she enjoys the smile on my face as I wheel the little crate around and think back to the days when I cultivated check-row corn with my father's F-12. I wish I could say the little crate was red, but it was the only thing I could find close by, with a good mower attached, and at a price I could afford.

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