jimw Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 What do Triples do? Watched a sale today in MT . The 15 brang about 5200 and the 48 about 27000. Don’t see them set up that way everyday. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimw Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 They also sold a 4586 for maybe 3 and a 4566 for 5400 . The 66 had 20.8 x38s on it the other one 34s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sandhiller Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Kinda remember that being a thing back in the 70's. No FWA tractors, either 2wd or 4wd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Whoever put those decals on the hood of that 4840 sure didn’t know what they were doing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1256pickett Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Sounds like some cheap power. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Sure don’t see a 2wd set up like that often. Here I was hoping for something with 3-4 stacks on it. 😊 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 10 hours ago, jimw said: What do Triples do? Watched a sale today in MT . The 15 brang about 5200 and the 48 about 27000. Don’t see them set up that way everyday. I bet every time it has a flat tire, it’s the very inside tire. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reichow7120 Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 9 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said: I bet every time it has a flat tire, it’s the very inside tire. Its always the inside dual 🙄😖 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.c.farmerboy Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Seems like there would be a lot of load on the axle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C. Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 50 minutes ago, m.c.farmerboy said: Seems like there would be a lot of load on the axle Back in the early 80s a couple of guys in my neck of the woods bought 6030s, tuned 'em pretty warm, and put triples on. Both of them broke axles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.c.farmerboy Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 I knew it woul 2 hours ago, Steve C. said: Back in the early 80s a couple of guys in my neck of the woods bought 6030s, tuned 'em pretty warm, and put triples on. Both of them broke axles. I knew it would happen on a John Deere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pid 1831 Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Where I was in ND (🥱🥱) in 2003 they had 2 John Deere 9520s on triples. I seem to remember there was a fault code pinging up on one of them that resulted in it being hauled off to Jamestown query a rear wheel bearing failure. Turned out to be the centre wheel was loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dinan Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 A guy here bought a 4840 in the late 80’s that had cast centers for duals, and decided that it didn’t have enough floatation, so he put triples on instead of replacing the cast centers with pressed steel. It lasted a year and the next year he had pressed steel for duals after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cattech Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Being in MT, would they have run triples for stability? Because as mentioned, if looking for traction I would think they'd have found the limits of axle durability. Also, don't they have those floating hayfields in some parts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.EVIL Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Dad welded up a pair of clamp-on duals for the '51 M to plant corn with about 1964 or '65. Ran the M planting till '68 when we first got the SH, by spring '69 we had home-made clamp-on's for the SH. First set of duals were M&W direct axle 12x38's Dad bought for the Super-M-TA to pull the 14 ft Krause disk. The M-TA pulled it O-K in stalk ground, ran in place in plowed ground. Had to carry the disk a little bit in plowed ground even with the duals. I imagine with a big enough 2WD tractor, 150+ hp triples would be a benefit. The BTO I worked for never had any duals, ran 18.4x34's on everything except the 2470 Case, it had 28Lx26's. The Landlord with the 8440 Deere had factory duals, 23.1x30 or '34's, I forget which. It would spin all 8 sometimes if the Glenco Soil-Saver settled in too deep. It had 8 matching GY Power-Torque tires around 60-70% tread, it slipped a bit all the time. With the "Two Shank Too Big" soil saver We had to run A range all the time, just crawl along. He made a comment to me once that sounded like it slipped even more pulling his field cultivator in the spring before planting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Saw that 15 on Tractor House awhile back. Those tripples scare me, thinking about rear-end, axle problems. Also it would probably be tough turning around on some of my postage stamp fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binderoid Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 On 11/13/2021 at 11:16 PM, Dirt_Floor_Poor said: Whoever put those decals on the hood of that 4840 sure didn’t know what they were doing. Why, where are they supposed be? Don’t know squat about Deere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C. Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 57 minutes ago, Binderoid said: Why, where are they supposed be? Don’t know squat about Deere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Binderoid said: Why, where are they supposed be? Don’t know squat about Deere. The picture above is correct. In the Auction photo they put the right side decal on the left side and left side on the right. I have seen it quite a bit, but nothing gets me as much as people who put the Deere decal that is supposed to be on the back of the seat on a 4020 on the front of the tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mader656 Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 12 hours ago, Cattech said: Being in MT, would they have run triples for stability? Because as mentioned, if looking for traction I would think they'd have found the limits of axle durability. Also, don't they have those floating hayfields in some parts? My guess is they were trying to pull a bigger cultivator than they should have been. If duels won't keep you stable enough on a hill side I can't imagine triples would be that much better... Also some parts of the state in a drought just turn to powder...trying to get the power to the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 The jd has a dt 710 in the center so it will be just like having duals once you deduct the available traction the dt710 gives it 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.EVIL Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 I think if your getting to the point of excessive slippage of duals, it's time to trade up to a big Challenger. My nephew bought a slightly used Challanger a year ago. I haven't had a chance to talk to him or his Dad but I suspect it's the smoothest riding tractor they've ever been on/in. I think my brother-in-law's 4440 was his BIG tractor, pulling 4440-sized implements will really test how smooth that Challanger really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewcrew Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 8 hours ago, DOCTOR EVIL said: I think if your getting to the point of excessive slippage of duals, it's time to trade up to a big Challenger. My nephew bought a slightly used Challanger a year ago. I haven't had a chance to talk to him or his Dad but I suspect it's the smoothest riding tractor they've ever been on/in. I think my brother-in-law's 4440 was his BIG tractor, pulling 4440-sized implements will really test how smooth that Challanger really is. I’ve seen older smaller challengers for some pretty reasonable prices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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