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Re: Tricycle tractors---good or bad?
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 25, 2004 at 02:28:40 from (216.208.58.141):
In Reply to: Tricycle tractors---good or bad? posted by T.B. on November 24, 2004 at 18:06:07:
T.B.: Equip them right and any narrow front tractor can be as stable as wide front. Stability is all about lower center of graviety. Here is how you achive that; Big and high tractors can have just as low center of graviety as low ones if rear wheel tread is set wide enough. Secondly, ballast is very important, and keep that ballast low. Liquid in rear tires is number one then wheel weights. To the guy with the MF 35, if your tractor is set on 60" wheel tread. I will take a 656 Farmall on 84" tread and proper ballast. I will follow you anywhere you want to go, and out manuver you at every turn. When we are all done I will then drive places you couldn't dream of taking the 35. All because I will have a lower center of graviety.
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