Well Dave, I get 24 5/8 inches, so my offset comparison was about right -- 2 inches or so flipping them.
That wouldn't increase stability very much, I guess, and that's one of my concerns with this tractor -- I have a lot of holes, ruts, ridges and such that can tip it quite a bit, and my wife is going to be operating it too.
There is one good reason to change them, tho -- mounting the backhoe can take a long time because the hoe frame has such little clearance between the tires and just touching the frame with the tires throws off the alignment of the other parts that don't want to slip past each other.
But that's another story.
Thanks for that measurement.
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