Single front Farmalls common here !!

I seen the questions about single wheel front ends not too many of ? Here in north central Wyo. and up in Mont. there actually are quite a few just for cultivation and ditching for row crops. Sugar beets, corn, edible beans. Handy for raking and light work too. I like them. Not many tricycle fronts, but lot of wide fronts ! Here is my Dad"s 350 LP he bought new about 1958, and sure is handy with the live power and hydraulics with fast hitch too ! Yes -- there are still a lot of single front tractors here.
Farmall power !!

mjd

Around here, it was/is about an even mix of wide fronts and narrow fronts, with the wide probably having a slight edge.

Just an offhand observation, it kinda looks to me like they'd be a pain in the neck if you happend to have a flat on the front....

That is one sharp looking 350! As far as the single front wheel, I never saw a single front where I was raised in MO. The first one I saw was in Colorado after I moved out here. You can almost bet there is gonna be a single wheel at about any farm sale out here. Larry

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Saw a bare bones H on skelatal (sp?) steel w/single front on E-pay. Some day I want one. Only mine must be a 39. No electric, hydro just bare H with that single wheel on steel. She will have to have the look of wet paint like your 300. Neked 39 H! A feller can have his dream.....

Nice tractor! Get a load of the 100 inchers too! Bet that old gal has lugged a beet topper in her day. There are lots of 'em still around in Idaho and Nebraska in the row crop areas.

Heck, I didn't see a real tricycle until I was 53 years old when the the kid across the road came draggin' one in here.

I thought the tricycles just came on the little rubber toy tractors. :>)

Allan

Allan - Yes, this 350 has done beets, in a beet topper job. We saved the beet tops for sheep and cattle in the fall. Later on, we used a Farmall 706 for topping, and our 856 pulling a Farmhand F-808 3 row beet digger..wow, could we fly then ! Now there are mostly 6 row harvesters with 22 inch beet rows. Sure changed a lot. I have tried to preserve our 350, only wish I could still take Dad with me to a Red Power Roundup with the tractor going along too !
Here are some of our IH back in farming days then too.....1256, 856, 706.
We now have another 856, Hydro 70 and loader, 2 Super C's, and 2 350's. Rent the land though.

mjd

IH RED !!