nosoup4u - 10/2/2014 14:33 A lot of nonsense in this thread though some of you know the story. While a few may have ordered them because of mud or because they were cheapskates in 99% of the cases they were ordered for use in crops that we planted in rows narrower than 30 inch. As you can see in the photos you could leave a 20" or so row for the front and rear wheels and the rows between them could be as close as you wanted. Why didn't they just use a wide front? Probably because a single front gives you a few more inches of clearance and you could keep cultivating until the crops were up above the rear axle housing. Not quite correct on you 99% being in narrow rows. Almost all tractors in cotton country were single front until the 60's and all cotton back then was 38 or 40" rows. | 
Why did tractors come with a single front wheel?
