Re: Why a wheatland tractor for wheat?

Posted by Don Wadge on April 22, 2001 at 19:30:40 from (216.81.26.165):

In Reply to: Why a wheatland tractor for wheat? posted by Poppinjohnny@aol.com on April 22, 2001 at 11:41:06:

Here in southern Manitoba our farms varied a lot in size in the fifties. We had lots of JD 70, 720, 730, R, 80, 820, 830; McCormick W6,WD9; Case La, 500, 600, 900 etc.; Oliver 88, 99; Minneapolis, Massey; you name it. In the heavy soils of the Red River Valley crawlers were the choice for various reasons; one being that rubber did not wear well in that soil. We didn't have many row crop tractors but there were quite a number of Farmall M's with the wide front. Tractors with narrow fronts were not very practical for grain farmiing and for plowing and pulling discers you ran your right wheels in the furrow which was easier. As far as wide front rowcrops vs wheatland tractors to a large degree no-one ever thought of buying a rowcrop if you didn't need it and actually I think the high-wheel tractors would out-pull a wheatland in the field (not just at tractor pulls). Those who had Farmall M's seemed to pull a little bigger implement than those with W6's. Probably a wheatland tractor would be a little warmer in the field in the late fall. We used to put in some long days after harvest doing the fall work and there weren't too many cabs around until the late fifties.

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