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Ted Larson

#196478

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt2r29p4xx/

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Ted Larson
trainweb.org/mhrr/ -------- NASG.org -------- https://www.nasg.org/Clubs/RegionsMinnesota.php
GN in 1965

Bill Parks

#196481

Were these specialized tractors designed to work in the orange groves?

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Bill Parks
Cumming, GA
Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

Ted Larson

#196490

I believe that the single front wheels are for narrow rows

Found this

Farmall H with single front wheel - Yesterday's Tractors

Farmall's with single front wheels are common here in south TX cotton fields. Apparently they planted cotton in 18" rows and the single front ends made for a great cultivating tractor.

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Ted Larson
trainweb.org/mhrr/ -------- NASG.org -------- https://www.nasg.org/Clubs/RegionsMinnesota.php
GN in 1965

Bob Chaparro

#196501

Perhaps. The later tractors had fenders to brush aside the lower branches of the orange trees.
The branches were not pruned as they provided protection from sunburn to the tree trunk.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA