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E.Central MN | We had a NI 319 on an IH 400. We had bigger tires on it with good tread so it had really good traction, better than the tractors we pulled the wagons with. When it got muddy it would ball up the tricycle front so the tires wouldn't turn. We swapped out the tricycle front for a single wheel front from an F12 and that worked a lot better. Still had trouble steering, but the tire kept turning, we'd steer it with the brakes. Finally waited to pick until after dark when the ground froze a little. Some nights we'd be pushing cornstalks and mud with the front wheel, then all of a sudden the governor would open up and the front tire went up and over that pile of mud. When we got done the field looked like it was infested with muskrat houses. | |
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Mounted corn pickers
