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Do I have a standard or row crop tractor

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trina frie

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Hi, I have a 1958 70 LP tractor witha wide front end Serial # is 7210261. I would like to find out if it is a standard or row crop and anthing else that I can about the tractor. thank you
 
If the front, or rear axles are adjustable for width of wheel tread it is a row crop. Standard means just that. Non-adjustable tread width.
 
Row crop tractor notice it has been raised up to clear the crops.
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A 70 RC will have(or should have) 38" rears and 'drops' for the adjustable front axle.A standard should have wider 32" rears and a 'straight nonadjustable front.
 
Row crop tractors usually have the narrow front end / tricycle type, or if it is a wide front end, there will be a way to adjust the spacing between the tires. Also there will be a way to change the spacing of the rear tires, by moving a clamp in or out along the axle bar, or by moving the rims to different mounting positions on the rim or hub. This is so you can adjust the tread width to fit between different spaced rows.
Standard tractors generally have a fixed width front axle, as they are set up for pulling plows, grain drills, or other such things across wheat fields. Many standard tractors only have a draw bar instead of a three point hitch, and often the standard tractor model will have larger fenders.
 
thanks for the info. I do have a three point hitch but I will have to check weather or not the front and rear are adjustable.when I purchased the tractor it did not have fenders.
 
Kinda funny, actually. When I was growing up, it seems as though I remember those with two front wheels directly under the front end being called a "row crop", as the front wheels would fit between two rows while the rear tires were adjusted to fit "outside" those same two rows. A wide front end was considered more stable on sloping ground, but the front axle had to be repositioned as well as the rear wheels in order to cultivate two rows at once. I can understand anything with a non-adjustable front axle being called a standard or industrial, but there seems to be as much confusion as to just what "row crop" means as ever.
 
If the tractor, ANY tractor, has the feature of being able to CHANGE the width of BOTH the front wheel spacing, AND the rear wheel spacing, that tractor IS a "row-crop tractor". If neither the front, nor the rear wheels are adjustable, that tractor is a "standard" tractor. The "standard" tractors are also, sometimes, called "wheatland" tractors.
 
Standadrds CAN have adjustable tread. My 730 has a fixed front but there are adjustable ones but not all the availability of the row crops. The rear can be adjusted in or out like a row crop on the axle. The rear rims can have the wide or narrow dish that can fit in or out on the hub but only one wide rib on the rim.
 
(quoted from post at 11:48:42 11/05/13) If the tractor, ANY tractor, has the feature of being able to CHANGE the width of BOTH the front wheel spacing, AND the rear wheel spacing, that tractor IS a "row-crop tractor". If neither the front, nor the rear wheels are adjustable, that tractor is a "standard" tractor. The "standard" tractors are also, sometimes, called "wheatland" tractors.
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Then I've got one of them there Ford Jubilee row crop tractors.
 
Now that you are probably totally confused, I will add my 2 cents. If the front axle goes basically straight across from one hub to the other and the back tires are smaller diameter (probably 28" rim) you have a standard. If the tractor has long spindles that raise the horizontal part of the front axle up about even with the top of the tires and the back tires are 38" diameter, you have a rowcrop.
 
here they are first one is a row crop, the second a standard or wheatland tractor. The third one is proof I'm not as good with computers as I think I am.
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(quoted from post at 11:48:42 11/05/13) If the tractor, ANY tractor, has the feature of being able to CHANGE the width of BOTH the front wheel spacing, AND the rear wheel spacing, that tractor IS a "row-crop tractor". If neither the front, nor the rear wheels are adjustable, that tractor is a "standard" tractor. The "standard" tractors are also, sometimes, called "wheatland" tractors.
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I have four old NFE tractors, none of which are adjustable in the FRONT that I always thought of as row cop tractors. One of them even has ROW CROP in big yellow letters on the side. I guess the manufacturer and I were both wrong.
 
I just have to say tricycle fronts are adjustable, you turn the wheels around for the wide stance,some IH had four different widths on the tricycle front ends.
 
On most of the standard-wheatland tractors the fenders are not removeable. Only row crops so mounted equipment could be used either with the trycicle front end or the wide adjustable front axle. A few row crops had a non adjustable axle fixed at I think a 38" tread for bedder or lister work.
 
Reply to 504-1's post:

Doesn't that go for the rear wheels also? When I use my one row potato digger on my MF 35 I turn one of the tractors rear wheels and move the front wheel accordingly in order to make the wheel spacing wider and have the digger go off center.
 
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