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Dave in Texas

03-23-2004 07:05:39




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Does anyone know why some tractors are set up with one rear tire for traction and one tire for rolling (center of lugs pointing to the rear)?




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Bill Smith

03-24-2004 09:59:27




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 Re: Tire rotation in reply to Dave in Texas, 03-23-2004 07:05:39  
Is the whole wheel turned around or just the tire installed on the rim backwords? If one wheel has been turned around, I would assume that the person that done it was trying to acheive a special wheel spacing for an implement or perhaps to fit on a trailor which the tractor was just a tad to wide, and they turned the wheel around and didn't mess with reversing the tire on the rim. May of had plans to turn the wheel back around eventually. If the tire itself is on the rim backwords, either some idiot wasn't paying attention when they put it on, somebody put on a spare wheel from a tractor that had wheel's reversed (in this case tires would likely be non-matching). I would say it would be unlikely that somebody was intending on getting more traction from one wheel and not the other. If so, I would like to talk to the guy. I would get a good laugh out of hearing some of his other philosophy.

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RZ(Wa)

03-23-2004 13:57:17




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 Re: Tire rotation in reply to Dave in Texas, 03-23-2004 07:05:39  
Same as adjusting the width of a wide front end---to fit betwen the crop rows.
Or because the tire guy couldn't figger it out. Or because the spare was mounted to fit the other side.
Or because it's borried and beggers can't be choosers.



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Bob M

03-23-2004 10:07:51




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 Re: Tire rotation in reply to Dave in Texas, 03-23-2004 07:05:39  
I’ve seen this a a couple times: A tractor has stamped rear wheels, the original tire (with tread oriented correctly) has had a flat. The only mounted “spare” immediately available has the tread oriented for the other side of the tractor. But an inflated tire oriented the wrong way is still preferred over a correctly oriented flat. You can figure out the rest...(!)



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Gary_N_WV

03-23-2004 08:43:43




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 Re: Tire rotation in reply to Dave in Texas, 03-23-2004 07:05:39  
I was looking at a picture, which I hope the link to it works.
If not, the picture is in the Parts and Pieces link at the left of this page.
Look for # 16 IH Mower.
This picture is from an old McCormick Maunual and it looks like the tire tread is reversed here too.....
Tire tread then is sure different than today !

Gary

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Ed Topel

03-23-2004 21:13:38




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 Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to Gary_N_WV, 03-23-2004 08:43:43  
Just a guess, but the could it be to try and balance out traction when plowing? The furrow wheel gets better traction than the land wheel so maybe reversing the tread would even things out a little.



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CNKS

03-23-2004 14:57:52




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 Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to Gary_N_WV, 03-23-2004 08:43:43  
Left wheel is dished in, right out. Looks to me like the right one was turned around to allow the tire to run immediately adjacent to the unmowed grass, so it was sure to take a full swath each time, traction isn't that important for mowing. Or, maybe not. We didn't have hay, so I've never run a sickle mower.



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Farmer Bob

03-23-2004 08:01:07




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 Re: Tire rotation in reply to Dave in Texas, 03-23-2004 07:05:39  
The humorous answer would be for the same reason that sometimes toilet paper comes off the top of the roll and sometimes it comes off the bottom.

However, more likely, one tire, rim and hub was turned around on the axle to allow the tractor to fit on a narrow clearance trailer.



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rhouston

03-23-2004 10:07:38




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 Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to Farmer Bob, 03-23-2004 08:01:07  
according to Dear Abbey the toilet paper thing was once a sign of being from the lower class. I forget which way was upper and which was considered lower class but that's the answer to that one.



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Jeff

03-23-2004 16:10:59




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 Re: Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to rhouston, 03-23-2004 10:07:38  
OVER THE TOP! Same as print paper towels. If is form the pottom it can get stuck in your undies.



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riverbend

03-23-2004 12:07:35




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 Re: Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to rhouston, 03-23-2004 10:07:38  
I thought that it was to keep the cats from unrolling it.



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chadf

03-23-2004 14:09:32




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Tire rotation in reply to riverbend, 03-23-2004 12:07:35  
i know what your saying ! but what i found out is, no matter how much paper is on that roll they will manage to unroll it all ! i mounted the dispencer higher now so the have to work for it.



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