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Interesting tread pattern

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SVcummins

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Anybody remember these tires
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They were fairly common around here way back. Still see them on old tractors once in a while. Can't say I've seen them new tho.
 
looks like the one that I was given to put on the land wheel on our now finished [ still 3 small parts to make ] {Canadian} #8 C two furrow two wheel plow, land wheel.
 
Those are, I think, very old Firestones. Ive seen them on almost every brand of tractor. They are indeed on backwards. Years ago, I was looking for a pair for my F14, and learned the molds had been sent ot South America. I found the company, and the tires were available. I could not afford the shipping back then. A set would have been I think it was around 3 grand just ot get them here, and another 1500 for the tires.
 
I have heard them called "sled runners" I guess because they did not offer very good traction.
 
Seen them also,, been a while now though, I have this NOS tire in my shed,, never been mounted up,, be neat to have a pair of them but sadly just the one
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I have lots of these type tires on my combines but none with this type pattern
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Marlow ..... I knew one guy who had his tires mounted backwards .... there were some areas on his property where he was always getting stuck and had to back out, etc. That was his story .....
 
(quoted from post at 00:21:29 10/27/20) why on backwards
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Rubber tires on tractors were a new thing. Clearly they did not know what worked best yet, as evidenced by the tread pattern. They didn't come up with the classic "tractor tread" pattern on the first try.

Most likely there was no "forwards" or "backwards" yet and/or they were trying them both ways to see what worked best.
 
Seems I remember something similar to it on the old 4 row planter we had when I was a kid of about 7or8. Then dad got an allis planter what a junk pile. Would not plant in wet ground would just wipe the dirt up into the seed tube and plug.
 
Yes. We had that tread pattern on our 1936 WC Allis Chalmers. Firestone 11.25X24. Right from the factory in 1936. Several neighborhood 1936 John Deeres had the same tread pattern. The fellow in the picture has his turned around backward from the way they would have been from the dealer. His tires so anyway he wants them. One excuse for the backwardness was on the tractors where you had to turn the wheel around to make them wider for cultivating those 42 inch rows. That wouldn't be necessary on a John Deere with bar axles, though. ??
 
I've seen those tires but don't remember seeing whatever that is going off to the left side of the plow. Looks like some kinda guide wheel or something. Disc plows were never used much in my neck of the woods in the day.
 
We call them 'connected lug'. Yery old,one of the earliest tread patterns.Still see one once in a while. I once had an F12 with one still on it. The old guy told me that tire was on when his father bought it new in '36.
 
If I remember right, they're Firestones. We had a set like them on the '44 Farmall H that Dad was allowed to buy through the lottery (?) system that was in place to prevent "scalping" of scarce farm equipment near the end of WW II.
 
On backwards in that pic.

Until the 1980s, dad and my uncle shared corn picking and used a F-20 with mounted picker. It had those type of tree on it. They left a bird foot pattern in the ground, was kinda neat.

I suppose they gave each lug a little better stability, back in the day with trying to figure out tread patterns and what worked, what didnt, where it makes the T with the other lug it supports from folding over or flexing so hard. You know, with all that power being applied to the tires! :)

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 10:26:02 10/27/20) If I remember right, they're Firestones. We had a set like them on the '44 Farmall H that Dad was allowed to buy through the lottery (?) system that was in place to prevent "scalping" of scarce farm equipment near the end of WW II.
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My Dad turned 16 in Aug. of 1945
He remembers farm auctions during the war and there were farm equipment price controls of some sort in place.
So the auctioneer would hang a log chain on the tractor.
The sale was for the chain, tractor included for free.
No price controls on chains.
 
Our neighbor had those on a MM U that he bought new in about 1948-49. Dad used it once that I remember to pull out a pickup (1941 Chevrolet) that he got stuck in the feed lot. He afterwards complained out the tires lack of grip in the mud. They were probably OK for farming tilled ground.
 
I think that I have a set of 12 x 36 like them in the back of my lean to. They were in a barn covered with dirt and I asked the auctioneer if he was going to sell them. I got them for $50 and when I got them home I discovered that the sidewalls had about 7 holes in them. And they are hard too. Auctions are a crap shoot, sometimes you get crapped on.
 
The tires in the first picture, they aren't that uncommon on really old stuff. They are mounted backwards in the picture.

On the tires that cdmn posted, those are what we call "rice and cane". Used mostly in the rice fields, and most older tractors you see with them on will often also have single rib tires on the front.
 
I had to look threw my books, knew i seen them before, found them in my farmall H book, must have been popular for the time as alot of tractors in the pics have them, also some other tread styles.
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Yup ive got at least one 13-38 that came off an E3 Coop we had... if i was to dig thru a couple of other sheds i think there might be one on a JD rim too.
 
FDad's Allis B came with a set of those wavy tread closed center Firestones. Worthless on muddy ground, spin one turn and you had a slick!!
 
I see at least 3 or 4 different tread patterns in the "follow on" posts here. NONE are like the pattern in the picture posted by svcummins.

I think the Allis Chalmers "U" tractor on display at an AG museum near Cassville, Wisconsin has that tire tread pattern. I have a picture of that tractor somewhere.
 
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