Single tire tricyle

[Omakboy]

I keep hearing that a single tire on the front end of a tricycle tractor is rare...is that the case? I have a 48" C and a 52" Super C with just a single tire up front, not the dual tires I see all the time in pictures. Just wondering..

 

[Anonymous-0]

Single tire front? Not exactly rare, just not common in many areas doing row crop cultivating. Some areas that had veggy farming and real narrow rows would have a lot more- some posts on California and South Eastern US with large garden truck farms note many single wheels. I think there were a couple posts on why a irrigated field farmer would also use a single wheel, something about lister plows furrow tracking also.There was a good reason for some people to want it, others may have ordered one /taken delivery just because it was quickly available. RN

 

[Janicholson]

singles are regionally common. they look normal to me because I owned an M that was so equipped. (in Montana). Looks are in the eye of the beholder. SOme areas of the country had effectively none around (of any brand) in other places they were the rule. (I like them). JimN

 

[James Williams]

Growing up in Northern VA I never seen a single wheel

 

[rustyfarmall]

The single fronts were not real common here in Iowa, but they were far from being rare.

 

[jal-SD]

Single fronts were commonly used in irrigaton country as they don't ball up with mud like a dual wheel front end does. They also worked great for really narrow row stuff. Neither single fronts nor WFE's were common in our part of the world when I was growing up. Wheatlands were also not common, but there were a few of all the above around. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

 

[NDS]

Most cotton picker tractors in my area were single fronts never saw one before cotton pickers came around though. In my opinion single fronts were much easier to steer when cultivating , if center furrows was in center of middles as they should be just drop tire in furrow and it would almost steer its self. You have not lived until you run front mount 4 row cultivator on dual front M without power steering where someone has left deep center furrow in previous cuttivation, that leaves lasting memory.

 

[Anonymous-0]

In areas where irrigation for row crops the single wheel was prefered for veggie crops. It all dependson what crops were raised and types of tillage and no they are not rare.

 

[Zach Bouchard]

I bought an M tricycle to restore this summer. i'm in Washington. They aren't super common up here but you see them. There are three tricycle frontends at my local junkyard. I like it, but I also have the wide front end for it too.

 

[Red Mist]

Down in Central Florida - especially between Tampa and Lakeland - we grew a lot of strawberry crops in the winter. Therefore, locally, the single front wheel set-up was known as a "strawberry wheel".
mike durhan