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Never buy a tractor on steel?

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farmerjohn

11-30-2003 18:16:17




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I was advised in my search for my dream F-model tractor to never buy one that was on steel wheels, as it will be "all shaken up" and will have a lot of problems. Is there any merit to this thought?




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Bill Smith

12-03-2003 11:21:18




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 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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Zak

12-01-2003 06:16:04




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 18:16:17  
I'm going to concur with the others here. When you look at the size of the bull gears (even in the 12-14 series) they are way over engineered for the amount of power these things put out and for the type of strain they were put under. Having just done a 34' 12 on steel I saw no wear whatsoever on any gears in the case. In fact, the majority of them still had sharp edges! I say buy what you want. Wear & tear depends more on how (and who) used them. Zak

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FarmallH42

11-30-2003 21:16:41




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 18:16:17  
Only thing that got shook up was the driver! And he should have learned pretty quick not to drive on hard packed ground!



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old

11-30-2003 19:40:53




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 18:16:17  
I agree with the other 2 guys, I have 2 tractors on steel and both are old 1935 JD-B and a 1938 F12 both show little or no where on the rear ends etc. You keep buying rubber tired tractors and we will keep buying the steel and haveing more fun and maybe even makeing a few $$ at the same time. Please don't be offended just what I've learned over the years steel is as good as rubber if it was made to be that way. Just think dozers have been that way forever.

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Guy Fay

11-30-2003 18:31:16




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 18:16:17  
I think someone's filled you full of crap. Steel wheels are generally more desireable in the earier tractors as they are rarer to find. Yes, tractors on steel may have more wear and tear on them in the transmission area, but many of these tractors lsted thousands of hours on steel and were designed for them. A tractor designed for rubber that has steel may be a different issue, but an F-Series was designed for steel.

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CNKS

11-30-2003 18:28:47




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 Re: Never buy a tractor on steel? in reply to farmerjohn, 11-30-2003 18:16:17  
I think that is BS -- I personally like rubber, but I have have many hours on the farm as a teenager on an H with rear steel, and it did not get all shook up. An F model won't go fast enough to get "all shaken up", anyway. When you use them on cultivated ground, there is very little difference in the ride from one on rubber. Farmers didn't run these things on hard dirt roads much.



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