Steve (Magnolia, TX)
04-27-2005 14:40:44
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Re: wide vs. narrow front in reply to Chad Berberich, 04-27-2005 14:23:58
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1. Stability. For those days yer whippin' around at 90 mph and hang a hard left turn... you're less liable to roll 'er over with a wide front-end 2. Tractor height. I'll most likely prove my ignorance with this one, but... ALL (OK, most?) narrow front-end tractors will be row crop tractors, which have a higher clearance, therefore are further from the ground. Whereas SOME wide front-end tractors are "utility" tractors and don't have the clearance requirements of a row-crop and therefore are closer to the ground 3. Turning radius. In most instances (dare I say all instances?) you can make a MUCH sharper turn with a narrow front-end tractor than you can with a wide front-end... of course, therein lies a greater chance of you digging ruts with the front tires, too... 4. (and in my opinion the biggest factor) Personal preference. Some folks just like a narrow front-end tractor. Now take me, for instance. I grew up on IH/Farmall tractors, most of 'em were narrow front-end. And if you ask me, that's pretty much what a tractor should look like. However, I'm not doing any row cropping and just can't justify 2 tractors, so I'll just keep the Ford 8N that I bought about 8 years ago. I like it (a lot) and it's served me well, but it's a smaller tractor, with a wide front-end, and I suppose it looks a little "less-like-a-tractor" than what I grew up with... HTH Steve
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