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grizz02

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I AM LOOKING AT BUYING J D A UNSTYLED I HAVE NOTICED THE TERM CUT DOWN REAR WHEELS DOES THIS MEAN IT HAS BEEN RE RIMED IN SMALLER SIZE FOR REPAIR AND HOW DOES THIS AFFECT VALUE THANKS
 
Are you sure the term isn't "cut off rears". If so, it simply means that the steel wheels were cut off, and rims welded on. This happened to thousands of tractors.
 
Cutt off wheels dont really effect value anymore.Not for the 'common' man. However the rabid high dollar "factory perfect' collectors dont like em as well.As was said steel wheels were cutoff and converted to rubber tire by the millions in the late thirties,40s(WW2 aftermath) and later.
 
Cut offs would be taking the rear wheels of the tractor in the picture and cutting the spokes and putting on a rim made for rubber tires which in the case of this 1935 JD-B I would never do but it has been in the family since 1940
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Grandfather said when his brother, the tire dealer, fitted rubber tires to the old General Purpose, they could plow in one gear higher and it rode a lot smoother. He later bought a 1940 styled A with factory equipped rubber thought to have been specially handled by the dealer to get it on rubber instead of steel. Think maybe the firm French and Hecht might have been involved.
Leo
 
Makes my skin crawl when I think of my mother at age15 was driving the GP on steel discing...her way to get out of the house with 6 young siblings to care for. I can easily image the bellowing, no muffler, JD vibrating and bouncing with her at the cast iron steering wheel and she was just over 5 foot tall and about 110 pounds. Seventy years later she loved to drive their 48 A JD or the 520 on the baler.
Leo
 
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