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Thought it might be interesting to see where people prefer to position their steering spinner, assuming front wheels are straight forward. Might help to know if you are right or left handed. Got mine at 2:00 o'clock....not really thrilled with that...but it works...I have power steering.
 
I have not used one in over 50 years, but in the good old days I had it a 10:00 O'clock on my 51 GMC so that my right arm would be around the shoulders of a timid young lady. Never saw a need for one on a tractor
 
About 10:00 on an H Farmall. It was a position that had a leverage advantage for My left hand/arm for making turns with one wheel stopped. Cultivating with 2 row, or Mowing without leaving a single sprig of hay standing. Jim
 
With any "newer" tractor that has "hydrostatic" power steering, the steering wheel position slowly drifts in relation to the wheels, so the question is moot for MANY tractors made after the 50's.

Never understand what guys see in those knuckle-busting &$^* things, anyway, when I get a tractor with one installed it's new position is in the junk bin.

Several years ago I was driving a friend's DEERE 850 (manual steering), and the RH front wheel caught a rock hidden in the grass, and the &$^* spinner thing did a number on my hand, bruised fingers that hurt for weeks.

NO thanks!
 
Never have liked them and seen more then one person get badly hurt because of one. You can hit a rock or other such thing and have the steering wheel whip around and break fingers and wrists both of which are not fun
 
Think mine are both about 2 o clock, have been beat up with them a couple of times though.
 
FWIW: My knob is mounted... Right - hand'ed - Neckers knob at 2:00 - It has been that way for 45 years. It has been 'right hand on the knob - left hand on my bride of 44 years'. Each to their own, but my bride is almost my only ride-along. I brought my first grandson along once, but he "couldn't hear" instructions. My granddaughter has been along once, but has way too much squiggle.

One of my 'besties' fell off of an 8N and was run over by his dad as a kid. No permanent damage but it slows down what you are willing to do as a Grandpa now.
 
My left hand is a control freak, and doesn?t like to let my right hand drive. So if the tractor has a spinner, it would be at the 10:00 o?clock position.
My right hand has spent too many years running gear shifters in trucks and loader controls, not sure I could train myself to drive right hand.
 
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Four antique JD tractors with power steering.

Steering wheel spinner is at 6 o'clock position on all four.

Steer with my left hand, although right handed, and watch sickle mower and baler over right shoulder.

Also use left hand when making sharp right turns with sickle mower.

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Nice video, thanks for posting. The old (82) gentleman down the road also uses 6 o'clock...but he uses it mostly for backing trailers...."whichever way the knob goes, the trailer goes"
 
So if your left handed are you also one of the 99% of left handed people that are dyslexic??? Or at you one of the many that did not even know that there is a 99% chance being left handed your dyslexic. I too are left handed and I am dyslexic. Back when I first started school the teacher tried to make me right handed but my parent told them to leave me along or there would be thing happen they did not like.
 

15 years or so ago I started having joint problems, and I read somewhere that the problems cold be alleviated somewhat by reducing how far your limbs have to move. One thing that was suggested was to adjust tilt steering wheels to fairly close in. I found that it helped. In addition I have the spinner on the one tractor that has it in the 6:37 position.
 
I do not believe 99% of southpaws are dyslexic. I have several in my family that will throw your figures off. One of whom is my mother. I?ve taught 28 years of students and not one of my lefty students were dyslexic. Believe you me as the counselors or students would have let me know. And these are seniors in h.s. Where do you get your facts??
 
Well think about it there are what millions of left handed people and many never so much as find out they are dyslexic due to the fact they never see a doctor to find out if they are or are not. I did not know I was till I was told I was by a doctor. Dyslexic people go through life many times never knowing they where. My father was a college professor who taught those who where doctors that In turn where to ones who found out abut left hand people and how many had the problem but many as in over 50% never know they have it. Like the backward E or 3 when going to school is a sign of dyslexic which I did and most left handed people did also but learned to turn them the right way not know that was a sign of it
 
It all depends on the tractor. The position of the spokes makes a difference. On a hand clutch tractor with the clutch lever on the right you don't want the steering knob on the right side of the steering wheel. On the Deere A it's on the top. The 630 it's at 6:00, The B farmall is at the top. SC case is toward 7:00ish, I forget where it is on the Oliver 88 and 35 A Deere. The 1086 is hydrostatic steering so it can be anywhere. I will be soon putting one on the 4650 Deere so I won't be hitting my knuckles on the auto steer motor any more.

Safety-wise, the 630 has power steering so the wheel doesn't whip. The 51 A has rolomatic that fairly well takes care of the steering wheel getting away from me. The OLiver 88 isn't too bad, The SC Case doesn't whip the wheel, the 35 A is bad and the little Farmall B, the tiniest tractor in the fleet, will jerk that knob out of my hand quick as lightning and laugh at me besides. I have never been injured by that knob in the past 60 years. Maybe the time is coming tho.
 
Necker's knob on cars back in the day was at whatever position was comfortable for your left hand, with elbow resting on the armrest. With any luck, the right hand was otherwise engaged.
 
My fact died when my dad died in 2007 he was the person who had the knowledge of all that and pasted it on to me as for static number etc. Many people never know the yare because they simply never see a need to get it checked. Dyslexic people live there life with little or not problem other then once I an while mixing up numbers and letters and unless they are seen by a doctor and check for it the never know and most died not knowing. That is the good thing about that problem it does not effect people in a way that any once notices. If you don't believe me check it out wit ha Physiatrist which is one of the many degrees my dad had. My dad held teachers paper for K1-graduate school so he could teach any grade in most states we lived in. I remember him subbing many times over the years in schools
 
Old, I too would like to know where you are getting your factual information concerning lefthandedness with dyslexia. Your theory of 99% of lefties being dyslexic is absolutely incorrect. I don't know what your father taught but I too was a college professor for nearly 40 years having taught human physiology and anatomy to primarily nursing and pre-med students. Research as of 2010 has found there is a slight increase in dyslexia among lefthanders than righthanders but nothing significant. When you indicated that a doctor would have to diagnose dyslexia is "hogwash". The majority of family doctors do not test for it because they do not know how. It takes a specialist in that area to determine whether an individual is dyslexic. Most of the time a child is eight years of age before problems with dyslexia occur. There are two types of lefthanders. A genetic lefthander has inherited the gene and most of these write upside down. The congenital lefthander is result of development. They write similar to a right-handed individual. By the way, my dad was left handed; I am left handed; my nephew is left handed and we are not dyslexic.
 
My 1550 had one when I got it. I found it handy, sometimes, but I took it off because of the number of times I caught a fingertip on the clamp bracket. Hydraulic steering gear so it was never in the same place anyway.
 
Yes now days it may not be that high but back when he was still teaching it was but also back then There was no such thing as ADHD. Now days it maybe more like 75% or even lower but then again now days they have a label for most anything that they believe is not normal.

As for you not being dyslexic what it your proof dyslexic people just se thing backward and mix up there number some time and most that are say 40 plus years old have learned to get around it so they do not even know they are

Goes to the fact also that years ago there was no such thing as altimerze (sp) but there is not back years old it was a just old age
 
Old,
No, I am fortunate to not be dyslexic.

Kind of an odd thing:
All of our grandparents, and our mom & dad were all right-handed BUT...
4 out of us 6 kids were left-handed.

Mom did her best to try to make us into righties... but it did not work.

I do not know if any great grandparents were lefties... but it seems like it had to come from somewhere in the family tree.
 
You are not factually correct, there is no positive correlation between dyslexia and left handedness. Did your father do a research thesis on this subject? Do you have any documented research papers? I call ?BS?.
 
I'm right handed, throw right, bat left handed. But way too old for baseball anyway. Now I have trouble just walking. I wish I could still play ball.
The one tractor I have that has one; has it at 2:00. I bought the tractor used, it came with the spinner on it.
 
Please do not try to dissuade Old. Please, Do not try to enter facts, data, research into the discussion. He has decided. It is done, discussion over.
 
Old .... did some Googling and apparently there are statistics saying that left-handers are more prone to dyslexia .... but 99% might be pushing it a bit. Unless I'm reading your reply incorrectly.
 
Old I am not about to argue with you about what percentage of lefties are also dyslexic. I probably should have been allowed to write left handed , but my mother and school teacher forced me to write right handed. It took until a high school teacher in grade ten math class to realize that I was dyslexic. On a pop quiz at the end of class , based on that days lesson, I had ten out of ten answers wrong, and the teacher thought that odd, as I had been very engaged in answering questions during class. He looked closer at the answers I had written, and discovered several numbers in each answer were written in the wrong order. So the next day he kept me after class and gave me the same test orally, this time I got ten out of ten correct.
. So my math teacher gave me oral test for the rest of the year, got my best math grade ever, he told me not to take math in grade 11, as he and the student guidance councillor believed that I was a dyslexic, but the school system didn?t believe that dyslexia to be a ? real ? thing. I have had a miserable time with writing something that I am copying, like a phone number. Or writing the amount on a cheque, after reading the amount from a invoice. Fortunately for me my wife has no such problem, and does all our book work. I can make calculations in my head, but don?t ask me to use a paper and pen , or even a calculator. Spell check speed my typing considerably, it I am helpless at proof reading what I have written .
 
10 o'clock on my Minnie Mo U.

I'm a lefty. But my right-handed kids like it best 10 also as the hand clutch, hydraulic handle and throttle keep the right hand otherwise occupied most of the time...
 
(quoted from post at 16:43:51 08/18/18) Old, I too would like to know where you are getting your factual information concerning lefthandedness with dyslexia. Your theory of 99% of lefties being dyslexic is absolutely incorrect. I don't know what your father taught but I too was a college professor for nearly 40 years having taught human physiology and anatomy to primarily nursing and pre-med students. Research as of 2010 has found there is a slight increase in dyslexia among lefthanders than righthanders but nothing significant. When you indicated that a doctor would have to diagnose dyslexia is "hogwash". The majority of family doctors do not test for it because they do not know how. It takes a specialist in that area to determine whether an individual is dyslexic. Most of the time a child is eight years of age before problems with dyslexia occur. There are two types of lefthanders. A genetic lefthander has inherited the gene and most of these write upside down. The congenital lefthander is result of development. They write similar to a right-handed individual. By the way, my dad was left handed; I am left handed; my nephew is left handed and we are not dyslexic.
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Dyslexia runs in Marilyn’s family from her dad’s side. No lefties out of fifteen kids in Marilyn’s family. Some are dyslexic, some are not. Our son is dyslexic and has learned how to handle it fairly well. I remember his reading room teacher in school saying “how can a kid with such a high IQ have so much trouble reading and spelling“?
 
So, if millions of left handed people don't know they are dyslexic how would they be counted in the 99%?
 
Thank you and thank Frank Dodson for standing up to this never ending stream of hillbilly disdain for science and research. America has always been a nation of leadership, looking forward and embracing educated learning and factual scientific research. Hopefully we have moved beyond superstition and witch trials. But, the current resistance to learning and the widespread disbelief in scientific information (especially among the uneducated) makes one wonder if America can maintain its place as the leader in the world.

A guy sits in his remote house in the far reaches, hooked to the electric grid, connects to the internet to see if his CAT scan results are available, turns on his satilitte TV hookup, checks the weather on Weather.gov, Does a GPS assessment of his visit to the neighboring state and posts on YTmag that science is all bunk.
 
"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]whichever way the knob goes, the trailer goes[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

Thanks for the helpful tip; I'm not the best at backing a baler into the shed.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Just wanted to "[i:654c4848f0]back up[/i:654c4848f0]" my statement in the reply.
 
(quoted from post at 18:19:22 08/18/18) Well think about it there are what millions of left handed people and many never so much as find out they are dyslexic due to the fact they never see a doctor to find out if they are or are not. I did not know I was till I was told I was by a doctor. Dyslexic people go through life many times never knowing they where. My father was a college professor who taught those who where doctors

I thought you father was a preacher?
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I am left handed and therefore dyslexic. I have been to a doctor hundreds of times and pass my DOT physical every other year, but I have never been to the right doctor who would see it. I have also taken tests of many sorts through my years of education, as well as many tests since for work and various avocations. If I were not dyslexic I would no doubt have had a much more productive life, and would probably have ended up in finance or in academia. If I had I most likely would never have gotten into farming, and in turn this forum, and would have missed out on young fella Old's entertaining stories and views on life.
 
7:30 position. I'm a lefty, and most likely dyslexic also crazy from having to deal with everything designed for people who are not in the right frame of mind.
 
I, also, am a Lefty, probably not dyslexic, absolutely not anorexic, and would rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy.

All my tractors have spinners, as does my pickup. I usually try to keep them around the 10 o'clock position when steering left-handed.

I use a spinner in my truck that was designed for a disabled person- it came from a car that had been converted to all-hand operate. The spinner can be removed kind of like a quick connect, so it can be operated without the knob. If ever questioned, I could have popped it right off. It comes in really handy when plowing snow. I placed my plow control on the left side of the column in this truck to discourage me from smoking while plowing, and it helped me quit, eventually
 
(quoted from post at 13:58:06 08/18/18) Thought it might be interesting to see where people prefer to position their steering spinner, assuming front wheels are straight forward. Might help to know if you are right or left handed. Got mine at 2:00 o'clock....not really thrilled with that...but it works...I have power steering.
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Best place for a steering wheel spinner knob is in the garbage barrel.
 
(quoted from post at 12:00:50 08/19/18)
(quoted from post at 13:58:06 08/18/18) Thought it might be interesting to see where people prefer to position their steering spinner, assuming front wheels are straight forward. Might help to know if you are right or left handed. Got mine at 2:00 o'clock....not really thrilled with that...but it works...I have power steering.
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Best place for a steering wheel spinner knob is in the garbage barrel.
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Usually one of the first things I do when I get a tractor is add a knob if it doesn't already have one. Most of mine are near the top--between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, depending on there the spokes are.

(quoted from post at 11:38:04 08/19/18) .......how did we get off on this dyslexia BS?
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Good question. Someone goes off on a tangent and then it takes on a life of its own!
 
My main field mowing tractor, a 1971 AC 175D with hydrostatic steering steers so easy I just stick my index finger next to a spoke and spin it when I need to turn fast. I think it is only one turn each direction to lock. The beef I had with the newer Deere was it took twice as many turns of the wheel. Why? I could see it if they didn't come with ps.
 

Only thing I have with a spinner knob on it is my 62 model 801, it's in the 10 o'clock position and appears to be the original as the steering wheel is worn down all around the knob, if not for that I'd take it off. If I bang my hands into it many more times it'll come off anyway.
I position my hands on the wheel differently according to what I'm doing, I'm left handed but sometimes switch to my right to give my left shoulder a rest, but normally my right hand is free in order to work the lift or hyd controls.
Don't want a knob to dictate where I place my hands on a steering wheel.
 
(quoted from post at 14:55:56 08/19/18)
Only thing I have with a spinner knob on it is my 62 model 801, it's in the 10 o'clock position and appears to be the original as the steering wheel is worn down all around the knob, if not for that I'd take it off. If I bang my hands into it many more times it'll come off anyway.
I position my hands on the wheel differently according to what I'm doing, I'm left handed but sometimes switch to my right to give my left shoulder a rest, but normally my right hand is free in order to work the lift or hyd controls.
Don't want a knob to dictate where I place my hands on a steering wheel.
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450, if your left shoulder is giving you trouble try mounting the spinner down in the 6 O'clock position. It will enable you t keep your arm right down by your side giving your shoulder a break.
 

I do put my hand down at the 6 o'clock position at times as well as swapping hands when doing a lot of driving.
Rain is supposed to clear out Tuesday so I'll have 50+ acres of 2nd and 3rd cutting hay to put up, I'll be changing hand positions several times over the next several days.

The spinner is only on my 801 that doesn't see much farm duty, as I said the steering wheel is worn all around the knob so moving or removing it will be noticeable, guess I'll just leave it where it's at.

Driving manual trans cars and pickups plus 30 + years in semis the 10 o'clock position has become my go to position, call it muscle memory or habit. Retraining old muscles and breaking old habits is hard to do.
I'll change positions or hands and a little later my left shoulder will start bothering me again, magically my left hand will be back on the wheel in the 10 o'clock position, don't know how or when it got there..
A couple of my tractors have hydrostatic steering so a spinner wouldn't stay in one position on them, after all these years without one I probably won't be able to train my hands to hold onto one anyway.
 
(quoted from post at 18:55:07 08/19/18)
I do put my hand down at the 6 o'clock position at times as well as swapping hands when doing a lot of driving.
Rain is supposed to clear out Tuesday so I'll have 50+ acres of 2nd and 3rd cutting hay to put up, I'll be changing hand positions several times over the next several days.

The spinner is only on my 801 that doesn't see much farm duty, as I said the steering wheel is worn all around the knob so moving or removing it will be noticeable, guess I'll just leave it where it's at.

Driving manual trans cars and pickups plus 30 + years in semis the 10 o'clock position has become my go to position, call it muscle memory or habit. Retraining old muscles and breaking old habits is hard to do.
I'll change positions or hands and a little later my left shoulder will start bothering me again, magically my left hand will be back on the wheel in the 10 o'clock position, don't know how or when it got there..
A couple of my tractors have hydrostatic steering so a spinner wouldn't stay in one position on them, after all these years without one I probably won't be able to train my hands to hold onto one anyway.
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Destroyed 450 apparently you are significantly younger than my 69 years. It was maybe ten years ago when I read what I mentioned earlier about changing position to reduce irritating injuries and arthritis. That was when I started pulling my tilt steering wheel towards me in pretty much everything that I drive, and found the it helped a lot.
 

6 years younger.
I agree, change is good sometimes but also difficult to break an old habit.
Haven driven over 2 million miles around the US with my left hand in that position on the wheel it just automatically goes there, my right hand reaches for a shifter knob and more than once my left foot has stomped the floor board in a vehicle with a automatic trans.
 
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