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southern MN | I'm just speculating out loud here, I don't know much....
So, gauge wheels carry some weight, or they are only there to look good.
On a three point, it carries the frame, a fairly small frame. The digger can float up and down on the wheels.
On your wheel lift, hitch drawn digger the weight of the digger is supported by three points. The two wheels and the hitch clevis.
So, you put those gauge wheels on the outer corners, front of the front bar.
As you go through an old furrow or a gully or over a ridge in the field, those 2 gauge wheels will end up getting the full weight of the digger, as the middle of the digger high-centers.
In general a digger sucks down intot he ground pretty hard, lot of weight on the axles.
Wouldn't that put tremendous weight and pressure on that bolt that adjusts the gauge wheels?
It would be different if your digger had floating wings, the wings could hinge up as you went over ridges and through valleys. Or as some are built, with a floating front hitch where the gauge wheels are always carrying the weight.
But it appears a rigid frame on your digger?
I think as you go through washboards, your gauge wheels will be the middle of a teeter totter and get some pretty heavy loads on them?
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Screw type gauge wheels can they be pushed or pulled ?
