Re: Wheels and safety

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 03, 2006 at 03:09:13 from (216.208.58.181):

In Reply to: Wheels and safety posted by Farmall H Newbie on December 03, 2006 at 00:41:50:

With any tractor working on hills it's best to lower the center of graviety. There are 2 items you can do with your Farmall H, number one Increase the width of wheel tread. There are practical issues with wheel tread. For the type of work your suggesting 72" on center from one rear wheel to the other is ideal. Much wider and it will interfere with mower The second item is increase ballast. This can be done with wheel weights, however the lower the added weight the better. The very lowest weight you can add is liquid in the tires.

Wide front will add very little to your actual stability. It may give you more sence of srcurity than actual safety. There is a very wee bit of added security with the tipping pivot point of front end being at the wide front axle, versus being at ground level with narrow front. That is much smaller than most folks believe. In an actual roll over with a wide front tractor, by the time the front axle pivot strikes it's stop, your gone anyhow.

I farmed a number of years with 3 narrow front, and 3 wide front Farmalls. Never had wheel tread less than 72" centers, and all were balasted. I don't ever remember going back to shed to get a wide front tractor as a result of hills being to steep for the narrow front.

I can tell you, if you put a wide front on that H, you will find it very clumsey, not near as manuverable as it is today. Sharp turnig wide fronts, never happened until the days of 04-06 series tracrors.

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