Re: Are Narrow fronts with Loaders always dangerous?

Posted by Joe Evans on September 24, 2000 at 20:56:13 from (209.41.235.125):

In Reply to: Are Narrow fronts with Loaders always dangerous? posted by MT Greenhorn on September 24, 2000 at 10:52:47:

MT: as the other respondees have noted, always use extra care using a loader. I've been around tractors and machinery my entire life and have generally heard that narrow front end arrangements are more unstable than wide front setups. They probably are not because of the simple fact that they have a "narrow front end". In order to accommodate getting the front wheels directly under the tractor chassis on a narrow front end design, the overall height of the tractor tends to be higher than a wide front end equipped machine thus a higher center of gravity and a bit more unstable situation is a result. When you think about it, all wide front end designs have a pivoting front axle or oscillating front axle as they are called--the entire axle pivots on a center pin. If you were to jack up a wide front end tractor high enough so that the front axle and wheels are allowed to pivot through their entire arc range, you'll see that the amount of swing is pretty significant. Since this wide front axle is allowed to pivot freely to a pretty severe angle, a wide front end arrangement (all things being equal such as center of gravity)in my opinion, does not improve stability over a narrow front end set up. How can an axle that is allowed to "tip" keep you from tipping over? The trick to improving stability on any tractor for loader operations is to adjust out the rear wheels for a wide stance and ballast the rear end by adding wheel weights, loading the tires (yuk!), or by adding ballast on the drawbar as absolutely as low as possible. Use discretion and good common sense in any case and you'll be fine. Joe Evans

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