Super C front wheels

Idaho Ron · Sep 19, 2008

As I look around here in Southern Idaho at SC's, I am noticing that most of them have single front wheels. In fact I can only think of two that have dual narrow wheels and I have not see a SC with a wide front end.
Is this a local thing? What drove the market for the different types of front ends? Ron

jal-SD · Sep 19, 2008

Are you seeing them in irrigation country? Single fronts didn't ball up with mud as easily as dual fronts & were more common in areas where flood irrigation was used before the advent of center pivots. Wide fronts were extra cost (singles may have been too) but wides do not turn nearly as short as tricycle fronts do, & this was important when cultivating, etc. Grew up in row crop country, not far from flood irrigation country in NE. I don't remember any singles & very few wides in our part of the world, but singles were common in NE, where they irrigated. Very few wides there, too. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

Dave_Id · Sep 19, 2008

Hi Ron, My guess is closer rows with the sugar beets and potatoes down southern Idaho. Midwest with lots of corn rows perhaps allowed for more room between the rows. Of course this is just a guess, but growing up in Minnesota, I never saw a single trike front end until I got to the northwest. Either that, or the farmers in the midwest were better drivers and didn't run over the crops nearly as often as the drivers in the northwest...Hmmmm?? Just kidding of course.

CNKS · Sep 19, 2008

Single fronts were used mainly for cultivating vegetables in narrow rows. We had 20 inch rows. 30 inch is about the max for dual front wheels (NF). Flood irrigation had nothing to do with it, because the ground has to be dry enough to cultivate. Single fronts were very common in the vegetable growing areas of south Texas and elsewhere. As stated wide fronts can do the same thing, but require much more room to turn around.

Idaho Ron · Sep 19, 2008

Mine was set up to cut beans at one time. I find it odd that I can't seem to find many narrow front ends. When I was a kid our neighbor had a narrow front end and his son still has it. I would think the narrow would have been a lot easier to change flat tires and stuff. Ron

Anonymous-0 · Sep 19, 2008

I think it is a regional thing. In MO I rarely see a single front C or SC. In fact I rarely see a wide front - most around here are narrow with two wheels - mine included. Growing up dad used it to cultivate corn. My wife will hardly drive it, but I like it as it is easy to turn, and turns on a dime, literally with a brake locked.

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