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This message is a reply to an archived post by intoodeep on January 27, 2011 at 10:50:46.
The original subject was "Why do grader wheels lean?".

According to conventional wisdom, the adjustable camber creates an optimal condition where the steering is neither tight nor loose when entering, moving through, and exiting curves at Daytona Speedway on race day. The "leaning" of wheels was approved by NASCAR in 2017 (Ref. Rule 521-3.2 of NASCAR rulebook.) I do hope this helps.
 
you need something to hold you straight when pushing with a blade. grader operators around here don't lower the blade too much cause they are scared they will have to change the blades!
 
Dang, changing blades on a grader is easy! Swing it fully out to the side of the machine, and you have a flat, chest high work bench to set your stuff on when changing the blades. Since I now work out of a satellite barn, I have to lay on the floor under my truck to change the blades. About once every 2 days plowing snow (while laying in melting snow water), and every 3 days or so when scraping gravel (depending on the moisture). Those 3/4" thick X 8" tall and 6' long blades are quite heavy when you're laying on your side trying to lift them with one hand, get a nut started on the bolt your holding, and not smash your fingers lol. You get good at it, takes about 15 minutes. The guys in the main barn have a pit to use.
 
To dig in to get a bite to keep grader from being pushed to side from pressure on blade.
 
"The same reason that conventional helicopters have tail rotors ."

I really want to see a flying grader...
Maybe they can use them to smooth out the air turbulence...
 
When traveling at road speed on paved roads with the graders we had at the mining company I worked for, leaning the front wheels slightly took some of the road shock out of the steering because the front tire was not rolling on the very highest part of the traction lug. Made the grader ride much smoother. We had 2 all wheel drive John Deere 772 graders and 1 all wheel drive Galion grader.
 
OT, for what it's worth, I saw a Cat 16 going down the street today.....no steering wheel!!
Apparently steered with joysticks. Just noticed that for the first time today!!!
 
Interesting how an eight year old post can be revived.

<a href="http://www.vannattabros.com/road10.html">Austin-Western</a> thought they had a better idea; the front wheels of an A-W grader don't tilt, but these four-wheeled graders have four-wheel drive AND four-wheel steering, allowing the operator to crab-steer the grader. According to my dad, who owned a couple of them (one converted into a terracing machine), an Austin-Western could turn much shorter than other graders.

Austin-Western is no more, of course. John Deere makes articulated, all-wheel drive graders that I assume borrow ideas from A-W.
 
(quoted from post at 19:30:00 07/15/19) This message is a reply to an archived post by intoodeep on January 27, 2011 at 10:50:46.
The original subject was "Why do grader wheels lean?".

According to conventional wisdom, the adjustable camber creates an optimal condition where the steering is neither tight nor loose when entering, moving through, and exiting curves at Daytona Speedway on race day. The "leaning" of wheels was approved by NASCAR in 2017 (Ref. Rule 521-3.2 of NASCAR rulebook.) I do hope this helps.
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Certainly not a "recent" idea, Austin patented it in 1925!

" Machines of this tractor power driven class having been protected against sliding sideways at the rear end are now found to react to an overload by sliding sideways at the front end because they are no longer attached tendency, t e machine of this invention for the first time applies leaning wheels to' the front end of a machine of this character, thus affording the front end the protection against sliding sideways which it formerly did not need but which is now very necessary.

Broadly speaking, the invention consists l in equippmg a power driven tractor with leaning ront wheels under control of the operator on the machine."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1776409A/en

Link to 1925 patent.
 
The first graders were pulled with horses or oxen. Adams was on of the early manufacturers of theses type of graders. They were the first to invent the leaning wheel on the grader, albeit was not a self-propelled unit.

DWF
 
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