Odd thing to do to a tractor

[kebo]

What's wrong with this picture?

Is there a specific reason someone would that??

I've heard of reversing the front tires for loader work, but this????

 

[DocHeb]

No $.

 

[Couple of Achers]

Looks like he is batting about 500 when it comes to tire mounting!

 

[20 20]

He's so sick of the economy he doesn't know wether he's comming or going

 

[ToadHill]

Some people don't understand "rotate the tires".

 

[Gem99ultra]

What's wrong with this picture?

Is there a specific reason someone would that??

I've heard of reversing the front tires for loader work, but this????

I've seen this occasionally on old 2WD farm tractors. The purpose is to help get a little traction backing out of a hole or loose soil. Of course, the loss is forward traction, but us poor boys sometimes can't have everything. Actually, I seriously considered doing exactly this on my old Fordson Dexta. ...but I decided to simply give the old girl away rather than embarrass her

 

[ovrszd]

I've seen this occasionally on old 2WD farm tractors. The purpose is to help get a little traction backing out of a hole or loose soil. Of course, the loss is forward traction, but us poor boys sometimes can't have everything. Actually, I seriously considered doing exactly this on my old Fordson Dexta. ...but I decided to simply give the old girl away rather than embarrass her

We are showing our age here huh. It was also common in the early days of self propelled combines, which were all 2wd. It allowed the operator to back out of a muddy situation.

 

[JB4310]

I use to think under certain conditions you might get more traction with the bars reversed.

 

[Diamondpilot]

If you look closely they are 2 completely different tires. My guess is he had a flat and used what he could find possibly having it mounted wrong and just said heck with it.

Chris

 

[Gem99ultra]

If you look closely they are 2 completely different tires. My guess is he had a flat and used what he could find possibly having it mounted wrong and just said heck with it.

Chris

You've got better eyes than me. I can't see the difference other than the left is mounted backwards. Not saying you're not right... just saying I can't tell. But you definitely are right in that he probably just wasn't too concerned, from the looks of his tractor.

On the other hand, I can relate to him not being too concerned about what brand of wax to use on it. My Ole' Blue sat out in the fields for 40+ years. It worked from sunup to sunset for most of those years, and never saw a wash job, not to mention wax. But it just kept on running. Looks don't count as far as a tractor's performance - only to the owner's level of pride. This old tractor would probaby outpull and out work my brand new L3400

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Retired NASCAR driver?... Only ever turns left.

I'm with Chris in that he probably had a flat, but I think he pulled a tire off of another tractor to get 'er back going again.

 

[mwb]

Nobody can track him this way; you can't tell which way he went! Kind of like putting one boot on backwards (or snowshow, etc).

 

[ovrszd]

Off topic just a pinch, but, I grew up around small Ford tractors beginning with the 8N. To change track width you simply turned the wheels around. My Dad always jacked up both rear wheels and rolled each one to the other side so his V-bar tread was going the correction direction. Even though they were filled with fluid and hard to handle. It aggravated him severly that some owners were too lazy to do that and would run their tires backward when set out for planting or cultivating.

 

[Aqualize]

You've got better eyes than me. I can't see the difference other than the left is mounted backwards. Not saying you're not right... just saying I can't tell. But you definitely are right in that he probably just wasn't too concerned, from the looks of his tractor.
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Look how many ribs you can see, the left wheel has more (less space between them) than the right and thus they are not of the same model.

 

[Chuck_Lind]

He's entered a contest, and is solicited answers from people on TractorBynet to come up with the most bizarre reason for the tires to be mounted that way.

He plans on winning a new Ferrari F430 Modena.

Might that be it?

 

[D7E]

It's definateley a different tyre....Either someone replaced the tyre the wrong way on the rim or it got a wheel off the wrong side of another tractor......I have a combine with the rears like this..2 left hand wheels...Havent got around to flipping the tyre yet..!

 

[MikeD74T]

You've got better eyes than me. I can't see the difference other than the left is mounted backwards. Not saying you're not right... just saying I can't tell.

Agree, I count either 12 or 13 lugs on each side depending on shadows. Probably took the tire to be fixed, it got put on the rim backwards, & he just didn't want to take the time to fix it. MikeD74T

 

[allenr]

I've seen this occasionally on old 2WD farm tractors. The purpose is to help get a little traction backing out of a hole or loose soil. Of course, the loss is forward traction, but us poor boys sometimes can't have everything. Actually, I seriously considered doing exactly this on my old Fordson Dexta. ...but I decided to simply give the old girl away rather than embarrass her

Unless the tractor has a diff lock - and I'm thinking most 2wds of this era wouldn't - there wouldn't be more traction because the tyre thats the wrong way would spin.

 

[Egon]

Individual wheel brakes!

 

[D7E]

Individual wheel brakes!

Have you been ploughing with a Forson major then egon....???