Mystery solved on this one. There was no crystalized metal or anything of that nature. The root of the problem is that wheel cast center has its keyway broken out. The wheel's keyway was not a fresh break either. It was an old break and the keyway was long gone from a previous owner. When the previous owner patched it back together he even used a hodge podge of mismatched bolt head sizes.
In essence, the keyway in the clamp was the only think keeping the wheel from spinning on the shaft. Has been fine for me for the few years that I have owned this ole tractor pulling my usual light loads (e.g. raking hay and pulling baler), but that subsoiler is all the h could handle in 1st gear WOT in my hard- pack clay soil and that is what did it in as there should be a keyway in both the wheel hub and well as the clamp.
I have it patched back together with a used clamp, so I can move the tractor around. I will be replacing the entire cast wheel center come spring (when warmer weather arrives). I can easily paint the wheel cast center as well as the rim when I have everything apart in warmer weather.
Until I replace that wheel center I will simply refrain from working the tractor hard.[/u]
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Today's Featured Article - The Cletrac General GG and the BF Avery A - A Bit of History - by Mike Ballash. This article is a summary of what I have gathered up from various sources on the Gletrac General GG and the B. F. Avery model A tractors. I am quite sure that most of it is accurate. The General GG was made by the Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally the company was called the Cleveland Motor Plow Company which began in 1912, then the Cleveland Tractor Company (1917) and finally Cletrac.
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