Posted by LenNH on May 18, 2009 at 12:58:02 from (71.235.191.159):
In Reply to: 10-20 steering posted by fordtech on May 10, 2009 at 10:46:04:
This won't help you much, but I'll comment anyway. My father's 1929 10-20 steered like the proverbial Mack Truck (if you've ever seen the front tires on a Bulldog Mack, you can imagine how hard those monsters were to steer back in the days before power steering). On the other hand, an uncle had a '26 model that seemed to turn with a lot less effort. Could have been as simple as adjusting the worm, I suppose. Incidentally, I am talking about steel front wheels with skid rings. My father eventually converted the front wheels to 30 X 5 truck rims. He took old tires off our '32 Chevy truck to use on the tractor. It's been a LONG time since I fired up the old tractor (retired in 1951 when Dad bought an H), but I seem to remember that the wide rubber tires made the steering even stiff, AND I remember very well that without the skid rings, turning in soft ground with a double-disk behind didn't go very well. There are, of course, no steering brakes, and the heavy load pulling in the middle of the drawbar tends to keep the tractor going straight. I remember skidding a lot when trying to make a turn at full throttle in second, and I eventually learned (if monkeys can learn, so can we!) that cutting the power back reduced the load and made the tractor go where I pointed it.
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