Posted by soybeanjoe on August 29, 2009 at 12:04:28 from (66.213.171.108):
In Reply to: BIG Tires posted by fastbob327 on August 28, 2009 at 13:42:04:
My uncle bought a new 1941 H. Being WWII and rubber was in short suplly he had to take it on steel. He was able to get cupons for tires for it but the only tires he could get were a 15?. I don't remember the correct size but were bigger than the 13.6s the Ms & SM had later, closest in size were the 15.5x38s that came on the 450 we bought in the late '50s.
Those tires looked emormous on the H but the tracto spent close to 90% of it's life as a lodaer tractor so they worked out good for that. Only time I can ever remember it being used in the field was pulling a double roller rolling wheat & a couple times pulling a 4 section drag harrow.
We also had a '47 H that had the 12.4 tires and was appropriately called the "Little H" because of the smaller tires.
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