AC B turning radius
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Topic: AC B turning radius
Posted By: briwayjones
Subject: AC B turning radius
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 5:29am
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As I mentioned when I introduced myself my Dad and I have a model C tricycle front. I've been wanting to get a B or a wide front C. Lately I've been leaning somewhat more towards a C tricycle front. I like the look of a wide front better but I've been thinking about it and you can't beat the turning radius of a tricycle front if you're going to use it for something like mowing. So my question is how good is the turning radius of a B? Do the wheels turn real sharp? Because I found a good deal on a B and a C. |
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 5:37am
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I don't know the answer to your question, but the obvious thing to do is to buy both! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: briwayjones
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 5:46am
| Yeah that would be good if I had the money and space. :D I'll have to do some scratching to get one of them as I'm unemployed at the moment and should be more responsible than buying old tractors. :D And we don't have a shop building yet. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 7:28am
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But when your working you don't have the time. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: MilesGray (CO/KS)
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 7:40am
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The turning radiius of my C WF is a little over 7 feet, and I have 4 tractors all in cattle panel blue barns.
Someone on here called them Blue Barns of Happiness! ------------- Miles Gray (CO/KS) 5 1938 B's, 1940 B, 1944 WF C, 1948 NF C, Gleaner A, White Top Rotobaler, 1957 IH Golden Jubilee... I'm either a collector, or crazy! |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 10:08am
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Sorry, but I hafta be the Devil's Advocate, too. When you back the C into the barn, you can put the B up alongside it really close, taking up little more space than just one tractor. There's a reason why so many tractor nuts like narrow-front tractors!!! |
Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 11:05am
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turning radius is tight! I am amazed at how easy it steers. ------------- Charlie '48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD |
Posted By: Ted in NE-OH
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 4:38pm
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I use a B with a Woods L59 mower to mow my lawn and am pleased with turning radius. ------------- CA, WD, C, 3 Bs, 2 Gs, WC, I-400, 914 |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 6:45pm
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The narrow fort C will turn quite a bit shorter than the B but I have been mowing with a B and the L59 woods mower for over ten years and you get used to how it turns and every thing gets done. I just got done using it to level the pasture. It starts to look ragged so I mow the pastures three or four times a year. It scatters the reconstituted grass that the horses scatter around in piles. |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 7:12pm
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I used my B for quite a few years pulling a Bolens tag-a-long mower behind. I have a lot of trees on my property, but did fine with the B winging around the trees. Just couldn't get to close to the low hanging branches. I now use my IB for the same task. Being the IB is much lower, I can get under the trees and cut even closer without risk of knocking my head off on a low branch. I can cut around my Cedar trees pretty tight. HTH Steve@B&B |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 9:19pm
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Hee hee... 'reconstituted grass'... That's with a belly-mount deck, right Dick? |
Posted By: briwayjones
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 8:43am
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Bummer, they deleted the ad, they must have sold it. It was for a complete B. Later model I think, I never got the serial number for it. It had electric, hydraulics, had at least one of the lights still on it. It hadn't been painted but the sheet metal looked decent from what I could tell. It had one new rear tire. They said it ran 5 years ago but then the starter went bad. So it might not have taken much to get it running again. And it was only $495, I thought that was a real good deal. Especially for this neck of the woods. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 10:02am
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The turning radius of any tractor depends on how good the brakes are!!! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: briwayjones
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 10:25am
Hehe, true! |
john(MI) wrote:Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 11:48am
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And if you use the brakes hard while mowing there will be several places you won't have to mow for a year or too. LOL
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 1:01pm
| You got that right. In loose dirt I can get the B to slide the front some to turn shorter. On the grass the front don't want to slide but with one tire stopped and the other one turning twice as fast the rear end will go sideways to make a some what shorter turn. Not much. The locked tire skins the grass off and the spinning tire digs the grass off. Planning ahead seems to work better for me than locking down one brake. Not that I have not failed to plan properly and locked one tire down to keep out of a fence or the side of my truck. |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 4:02pm
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Zero turn mowers are the same, if you want zero turn you will leave lots of marks in your nice grass.
------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 11 May 2010 at 10:16pm
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I have ag tires on my Bobcat Textron... Planting one tire, and driving the other WILL dig one in, but if you do a full neutral steer (meaning, one going in reverse, the other in forward), the ZTR will NOT mark the grass. Obviously, you can't run a stockish B or C with one wheel in reverse, and the other in forward... But I HAVE been kind'a thinkin' 'bout it... |