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BILLP-SE-MI 
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 6:22pm |
Picked up another SFW set up.
Edited by BILLP-SE-MI - 07 Apr 2011 at 6:24pm
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Michael Crowe
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 6:35pm |
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Nice find, I really like the way the single fronts look on a tractor.
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Dennis(IA)
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 7:00pm |
I have never driven a SFW, do they steer easer? They should not have the "kickback" on uneven ground like a standard two wheel narrow front.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 7:23pm |
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And you wanted me to bring you one of mine.................LOL............. Whats up with that Bill????
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BILLP-SE-MI
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 7:33pm |
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I went up to pick up a C cultivator & rockshaft he had this in the weeds.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 7:41pm |
Thanks Mike, Mark ya never know what ya find, just got them today.
Dennis here's my WD . CA & C sfw
Edited by BILLP-SE-MI - 07 Apr 2011 at 7:41pm
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 8:18pm |
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Bill, have you ever weighed the single wheel setup and compared it to a normal narrow front? I wonder if it's lighter or heavier? Seems to be a hair less metal up front but that wheel and hub looks pretty stought.
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1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 8:22pm |
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One more question, does the single front wheel setup bolt right up to a WD/WD45 wide front bolster like a picker narrow front does, with the five bolts or does it have it's own special bolster?
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1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 9:00pm |
Bill, ya dang dog.
I think I know where all the SFW's are hiding in michigan, and it aint at Kent's place! lol
Nice find!
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 9:05pm |
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Yes, the single fronts and the tricycle adapters bolt on using the same 5 bolts. Michael
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 11:09pm |
The weight of just the fork , cast wheel center, and tire is about 202-5 lbs. I just weighed the cast piece that goes between the frame rails, 137 lbs. So the total weight of a SFW front end 342 lbs +/-. This the bolt on fork type.
Have a good one BILL
Edited by BILLP-SE-MI - 09 Apr 2011 at 6:15pm
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 at 11:09pm |
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The last single wheel setup is different...I have to change the whole front pedestal with it. I also have front hubs that are solid steel and one that is pressed steel. The pressed steel has a yoke that looks like Bills.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 5:55am |
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Eldon. If you have a single front for a W series tractor that is one piece where you have to change the whole front pedestal, it will be from a WC or early WD. They are hard to find.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 8:01am |
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Looks like a nice haul! Let me know if you decide to part with the front gang lift tubes.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 9:19am |
I thought it looked like you were building another C there....
Planning on stopping in at the end of the month to pick up that stuff you have for me. I'll call you later this month to work out the details.....
Edited by GlenninPA - 08 Apr 2011 at 9:20am
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 10:36am |
 Calvin Schmidt wrote:
Eldon. If you have a single front for a W series tractor that is one piece where you have to change the whole front pedestal, it will be from a WC or early WD. They are hard to find. |
Just checked and both of my WD single fronts are that way....probably rarer because they came from the factory that way, whereas the others probably could have been bought to convert a wide front tractor when being used with a mounted picker?? Just a theory.....
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 10:52am |
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The WC and early WD single fronts are what I call non detachable. They are a true single front, you can't switch to a wide or tricycle without switching out the bolster. Also the yoke is about one inch narrower that the tire, so to get the tire off you have to deflate it and even then it is hard to get out. On the later WD and all WD45 single fronts, they are just a bolt on to any of the standard wide front ends. So definitely, the non detchable single fronts are more scarce and sought after if you have a WC or early WD. I don't recall if I have seen any serial number breaks on when they changed from the early to later style.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 10:52am |
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Ok, Eldon now you have us interested can you post some pictures of the 1 piece single front? I always wondered where they pivoted.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 11:06am |
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I found my IT manual and it shows the 2 different styles. The s/n break on the WD is at 25129, but the one WD I have is 75xxx, so I would guess someone did some changing somewhere along the line. I also noticed that that tractor had cultivator brackets on the front at one time, the seller had told me his dad was from the midwest and had owned the tractor a long time. I bet he hauled it out this way and converted it for veggies...
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 6:36pm |
Here's some pictures of the two types of forks.
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