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Mitch: My main concern is you weren't going to be very well paid for your effort. Changing wheels on a 1066 is heavy enough work, then getting into that rear end and removing the bull gear and axle carrier. Not exactly fun work, unlss your 50 years younger than I. Even then I doubt it. I have read what the others had to say about cutting. I never really liked that idea, however must admit I have no personal experience. I remember the first cut off job I ever saw. My next door neighbor cut them off a new Super C after the first time he hit the shed door post. He just did it with the torch and didn't even try to be neat. I think the saw would be best option, I still have concern about heat and its effect on the steel. Your axles aren't ordinary mild steel to begin with. That dirt scoop you use puts some quite heavy presures on your axles. I did twist an axle on a Farmall 300 one time. It did not twist right off, just about 1/8 of a turn. I used the tractor that way for awhile and the axle started to split and break up so I found another axle. I talked once with an engineer that suggested the 300 did not have enough horse power to do that unless the axle was heat damaged. Be careful, back about two years ago JD Humm who used to post here quite regularly, still does at Red Power. He told of a guy being killed in Kansas with one of these axles breaking off on an open station tractor. The tractor of course went down on one side and the wheel got him. I broke a couple of axles on a Deere forestry skidder, not personally operating my self. Those have ROPS thus operartor was protected. He did tell me it came down with an awful smash and the wheel both times landed on top of logging arch, Those axles were about same size as a 1066. You will get much the same kinds of axle loads with that dirt scoop as a forestry skidder. Be careful, I would consult with an expert on metals before getting out the cutters. I would a lot sooner hear from you on forums, than hear there was a guy down south run down by his own tractor tire. I know guys are cutting these however, we also know there are a lot of tractors out there that never see much load. Lot of them don't do much either. If they did every 1066 in the country would have 30,000 hours on it by now.
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