Dual wheels

[Merk]

By JMD
Wow you guys must have been rich farmers three tractors,We had 1.But then that was in the 50ths. Thanks Merk

Not sure about being rich....needed more than 1 tractor to do the task sometimes. The 200 acres was 3 different farms that were 5 miles apart.
The 656 was new in 1965. It was traded for the 986 in the late 80's. The 504 was new in 1967. We grew tomatoes, wheat, corn, beans, oats, and hay. We aslo had dairy and chickens on the farm.

[Ga.Cubby]

I grew up and lived in south Ga. most of my life.Dad worked for a large (25000 plus acre) row crop farm and they had a 60000 head feedlot also. When i got married 7yrs. ago we moved to north Ga. where these folks up here think 100 acres is a big place. I sure do miss that REAL farmin.

[clint]

Yep where your location is means a lot on what a "farm" means. As mentioned in North GA farms of 100 acres are of good size, and some around 300 acres or more, but few. I never plowed in the mud if that's what was took from my post, harming the land.... However if you ever no tilled a field ( I'm sure you have) and was coming behind a wheat crop with soybeans a tractor can have a hard time just pulling it's own weight in the 40-75 hp range with duals on. I never seen a need for dual wheels with the farm equipment I used, being a 10 disk taylor way, 9 shank all purpose plow, 16' no till planter, also had a 2 row covington planter and a single for corn that I sold on road side stands. A set of disk harrows that were pretty much worthless unless used as a drag harrow, I always wanted a good set of real disk harrows set up for plowing (besides the taylor way's) also had a single row cole, and a few other odds and ends.

I had someone combine my wheat, I always had good seed certified, which many others would buy from me for seed wheat.

[Merk]

by clint
However if you ever no tilled a field ( I'm sure you have) and was coming behind a wheat crop with soybeans a tractor can have a hard time just pulling it's own weight in the 40-75 hp range with duals on.

We don't plant beans behind wheat because there is too great of a risk of frost.
We have calcium in the rear tires that stayed on year round and at least 3 sets of wheel weights on the rear tires. The rear tires of choice are Firestone 23 degree angle.

The soil condiations vary from area to area. My area you MUST run duals and weights to make any tractor doing tillage work the most efficent.

Bringing this back to the orginal subject....
A dual on my Cub for plowing works great. The ride and not breaking parts is what sold me on the dual set up.

You are welcome to try my setup at any plow day I attend.