What's wrong with this picture?

[CincyFlyer]

This is the cover of my Mahindra 2540 manual (and it's quite poorly written; my "day job" is technical publications for a large jet engine manufacturer!)
Something odd about that tractor ...
(Please forgive the cat hair from the scan!)

 

[4get gto]

Well they couldn't decide which way they wanted the tires for one.

 

[RobS]

Some recommend that orientation for better reverse traction, particularly with loader work...

 

[CincyFlyer]

Some recommend that orientation for better reverse traction, particularly with loader work...

Note that only one of the front tires is that orientation!

 

[RobS]

Note that only one of the front tires is that orientation!

Yeah, I noticed that AFTER I posted. Maybe it's one of those compromises; slightly better traction in reverse and slightly better in forward!

 

[/pine]

Yeah, I noticed that AFTER I posted. Maybe it's one of those compromises; slightly better traction in reverse and slightly better in forward!

Dang it...I got a couple of tires off e-bay and dropped them and the rims off at a tire shop...when I was unloading them back at the farm I noticed they were mounted with opposite tread direction...since they are turf tires I've left them...mostly run heavy lug fronts anyway...

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Well to what the OP said poorly written manual, so I guess to go with the poorly written manual a poorly put together tractor.

 

[Oldpath05]

How many times you looked at that manual before you noticed? As long as the tractor works good, all that counts. I'd might expect that on a Chinese tractor manual 40 years ago.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Well, I don't think that there is anything wrong with the picture. It seems to me that a large amount of tractors have the tires mounted this way. Not on purpose, but when you have people that know next to nothing and get paid about the same amount, what else would you expect?

So to sum up, don't be surprised when you see a tractor with the tires mounted in a similar fashion. The manual is just showing how it actually might be.

 

[square1]

Where is the right rear fender & tire? Actually the entire right rear of the tractor is missing.

 

[Gem99ultra]

This is the cover of my Mahindra 2540 manual (and it's quite poorly written; my "day job" is technical publications for a large jet engine manufacturer!)
Something odd about that tractor ...
(Please forgive the cat hair from the scan!)
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I've actually been to the dealer shown on the brochure. Considering... the picture is right on.

 

[CobyRupert]

Dang it...I got a couple of tires off e-bay and dropped them and the rims off at a tire shop...when I was unloading them back at the farm I noticed they were mounted with opposite tread direction...since they are turf tires I've left them...mostly run heavy lug fronts anyway...

If BOTH tires were mounted with opposite tread direction, why couldn't you just mount them on the opposite side to correct?


Regarding OP's picture: I'm sure the dealer will say "Well, one's for going forward, and the other is to back up" But missing the right rear tire IS a bigger problem!

 

[MtnViewRanch]

If BOTH tires were mounted with opposite tread direction, why couldn't you just mount them on the opposite side to correct?


Regarding OP's picture: I'm sure the dealer will say "Well, one's for going forward, and the other is to back up" But missing the right rear tire IS a bigger problem!

Maybe showing that the tractor can operate with only 3 wheels?

Is this actually one of those pics that is intentionally flawed so that people can do exactly what we are doing? :confused3:

Seems like if it is-was the real thing that it would have been more work than to have the correct complete machine available to be photo graphed. :confused2:

 

[CincyFlyer]

Well to what the OP said poorly written manual, so I guess to go with the poorly written manual a poorly put together tractor.

My tractor has had only the most minor of issues in its first 100+ hours.

 

[CincyFlyer]

I suppose that it could be a lousy Photoshop job, and the tractor was never this mixed up. But somehow I doubt it.

 

[prichard]

That's what happens when marketing does manuals. Some one thought it looked better that way

 

[Texasmark]

Agree on the left front tire reversal....reason who knows, maybe as stated herein. Seems doing only one would present problems. Now to have the fronts one direction and the rears the other for the intended purpose stated, that may work...never tried it.

On part of the tractor missing, just a clip and paste job leaving out part of it.

 

[greggyy]

You must not buy much stuff from Chy naaa as your pres says, otherwise you would be satisfied that it had a tractor image at all ��

 

[4570Man]

Yeah, I noticed that AFTER I posted. Maybe it's one of those compromises; slightly better traction in reverse and slightly better in forward!

I think you’d actually get the worst of both unless you had a locking differential on the front.

 

[MossRoad]

This is the cover of my Mahindra 2540 manual (and it's quite poorly written; my "day job" is technical publications for a large jet engine manufacturer!)
Something odd about that tractor ...
(Please forgive the cat hair from the scan!)

On a side note.... Back when I was in high school (before I was dating my wife) I used to date a girl that lived in West Chester. Over near 42 and West Chester Rd. My aunt and uncle lived down there and I met her through my cousin. I have several cousins that work for a jet engine manufacturer, too. Spent many summers in that area, Kings Mills, racetrack in Mason, Sharon Woods.... I can't believe how much that area all the way up to Dayton had built up since then. I think I read somewhere about 10 years ago that it was 2nd in growth behind the Raleigh/Durham area.