Dallas Center IA 515-720-2463 | You are right about no more clearance than a wide front. However:
Wide fronts were not very popular on row crop tractor before about 1950.
Really a little latter than 1950. Both IHC and John Deere did not push the wide front end.
Yes you could get row crops with wide fronts. Deere AW, BW & maybe GW models.
For IHC there was the MV and I think HV.
But these wide front took 40 acres to turn around, well maybe 44.
People wanted the narrow front for ease of mounting cultivators and other stuff.
That is the reason the Farmall Regular had a narrow front, for row crop work.
It gets me that people seek wide front older tractors for collections, but there just were very few of them back before about 1950.
Edited by Robert W Greif 10/2/2014 18:38
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Why did tractors come with a single front wheel?
