Posted by Harold Hubbard on October 01, 2008 at 19:30:12 from (199.232.228.77):
I run this old C and the Kosch side mount mower over about a hundred acres of pasture, old fields and roadside every year. Either I am losing my judgment of conditions, or things have gotten much wetter over the past ten years. Anyway I have spent way too much time on the wrong end of a chain.
Over a year ago I asked on this board about putting duals on this tractor. The general ageement was that it could be done for flotation, not for brute force traction. That is all right because all I do with this tractor is mow and rake. However, nobody offered to make any donations to finance the project, so it went slowly.
Last year I choked up the cash for a pair of new 12.4x36 six ply tires. This in itself seemed to make a difference, because they are a little bigger, and I left out the chloride when I mounted them, so the whole rig weighs less. This summer I cleaned up and painted my spare rims, bought some tubes, and re-mounted the tires I took off. I dug another pair of wheel disks out of the fence row, and bought a set of axle clamps for them, as the originals had disappeared.
The next thing was to replace one axle, which had been hacked off to protect gateposts and doorways from careless drivers. I did manage to do this through the PTO opening in the rear of the housing, without removing the transmission cover, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone with bigger arms than mine. I also removed one iron wheel weight from each side, as the extra wheel disks and rims should more than compensate for it.
I have been testing the resulting product for the past week, and I can say that it definitely does float a lot better. A bonus is that it rides better, it takes a much bigger hole for the duals to fall into than a single tire.
Now the sixty four dollar question is what can I do with the front end, that does not involve power steering or Charles Atlas shoulders and arms? A wide front, as made for these tractors, is not an option, they are tough to steer on good going, and they don't turn tight enough for my purposes. I had the front wheels in over the spindles yesterday, and was pushing a wad of sod and mud three feet in front of me. That is probably OK in my own pasture, but it doesn't look very good where I am mowing the fields around a retirement home that belongs to some guy form New Jersey.
Twenty years ago some fool that was working for my dad broke both spindles off the wide front on our Super C, so I welded up an adapter and bolted the narrow front off a junked out H under it. It works, but makes the tractor look as if it is about to take off. I think I will swap that in, it will at least get me into 16 inch tires, at no cost except the time to swap them.
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