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08-27-2005 08:04:11




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cunfusion about the terms used to refer to wheel spacing of tractor fronts. my thoughts are as follows. Tricycle front... Single front tire.
NF- row crop .... two front tires, close together, with no adjustment for width.
Wide front-standard .....two tires, usually same width as rears, and usually adjustable for width.

I have saw references made to all these configurations in all the above terms. is there a set of correct terms that should be used?

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Paul in Mich

08-28-2005 10:19:00




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
You are pretty much right on the terminology. Wide front is self explanatory. Tricycle front encoumpasses both narrow front, being 2 front wheels close together mounted on a center pedistal, and single front mounted on a wishbone. There is no tricycle front separate from either if these configurations.



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Leroy

08-28-2005 09:10:17




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
A tricycle can have either a single or dual front, some wheels are adjustable while others are not, or be a model that the whole front can be interchanged with single, dual or wide. The earlier J D A,B, G would be examples of a tricycle being eith a dual front wheel or a single front wheel; very rare; with completly different front end parts. A Farmall H or M would be a tricycle but with a front that would accept any of the three different front ends. And single front wheels were never used under a mounted picker and very few ever sold here in the corn belt, only in vegetable areas except for the 3 wheel Silver King or the Avery A-Wards Twin Row

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08-28-2005 09:18:29




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 Re: Termanology in reply to Leroy, 08-28-2005 09:10:17  
An example would be a John Deere 420T that was a tricycle would be 420T wide front; 420T dual front tires; or 420T single tire spelled out like that, then the 420W was a row crop utility, the 420S was a single row cultivating tractor with wide front end, the 420U that was same width as a S but lower, the 420V that is betweem the W & T in height and with a wide front end, then there is the High crop 420H usualy with wide front end

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Aces

08-27-2005 08:42:58




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
What. Maybe this will help Tricycle or (narrow NF ) should mean 2 wheels close on one bolster some can be adjusted width wise for mud but should not go to the field set out because you can take ot the steering very easy that way. Then there is a single front wheel in my area (Iowa) they were used when under corn picker to turn better and better in mud under picker. Then you can have a wide front 2 ways. One as standard which means can not adjust width, then wide front that can be adjusted for with. This is where some confusion may come the first NF were called Row crop then when the adjustable wide fronts can out to replace the NF under the same tractor you still had a row crop. Row crop just means it can be adjusted to fit between the rows. Back in the 1930's and 40's when the row crop tractors came out corn and beens were mostly 40" rows then can the 30" now some farmers drill beens so there are no rows. Tractors with wide fronts are more stable but NF's can handle loaders fine ir you weight them behind and know what you are doing. Again back in the 40's 50's 60's many farmers used NF under loaders because they could not put picker on with wide fronts.

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Jet9N

08-27-2005 08:42:49




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
"Standard" always meant non-adjustable solid front axel in these parts. Adjustable front was referred to as such.

Jet



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Allan in NE

08-27-2005 08:38:05




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
Single front
NF or tricycle (both mean the same)
Wide

Allan



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08-27-2005 08:37:01




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 Re: Termanology in reply to what?, 08-27-2005 08:04:11  
Well as far as I have ever known the trike front can be either single or 2 tires up front. But yes the single would be more true.



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