Posted by LenNH on November 02, 2012 at 17:03:46 from (75.69.100.76):
In Reply to: F-20 stuff. posted by Kansas Kirk. on October 22, 2012 at 15:33:06:
Just a comment. I grew up with tractors from the 30s. By the time I got to using them, around 1940, most had been converted to rubber. The cheap way was to have the spokes cut off and have rims welded on. This was a very light wheel, and traction was not as good as it was with the heavy castiron wheels that were available toward the end of the 1930s (note that I am weaseling out here--don't have any exact dates for this). Putting water and calcium chloride in the tires was one remedy that I think was available in the 1940s (anybody know?). Some farmers added homemade concrete weights, attached to the spokes with some sort of J-bolt. I do know that IH offered beautiful factory-made weights for the new letter series, and I do remember seeing a lot of those tractors with the weights. One of the things that us oldtimers may remember is that the very first commercial tractor tires (around 1936) had very low cleats, and I would imagine that their traction wasn't as good as the traction available when the higher treads came out (I remember my father's 1938 F-12 had fairly-high cleats on the 9:00-40 Goodyears. Traction was very good; I expect that the heavy castiron wheels contributed to that).
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