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Thank goodness it has power steering!    (Edited correction!  JD317s did NOT have power steering!  I thought the 3xx series did... Thanks to @littleredrider  Makes this even more confusing to me.

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squonk

Prolly to keep it from falling into that ditch! 

 

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DennisThornton

I guess there's no concern about breaking the front axle but still, why duals on the front?  Wonder what that would steer like on a non-power steering GT?

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Gregor

Less soil compaction. Farmers worry about that a lot. :D

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ebinmaine
27 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Less soil compaction. Farmers worry about that a lot. :D

Yeah that's what I was figuring. 

 

Or just because it looks wicked cool to somebody. 

 

I like the look of it on the big tractors but I'm not so sure about duals on the front of the little one. 

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Lee1977

Dennis what do you think of the electric plow?  Might be he is plowing a drainage ditch in a swamp.

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Handy Don
2 hours ago, DennisThornton said:

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Thank goodness it has power steering!

I was wondering about the battery on the plow myself!

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DennisThornton
15 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

I was wondering about the battery on the plow myself!

$5 core charge weight.

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Handy Don
2 minutes ago, DennisThornton said:

$5 core charge weight.

As long as it's sealed and not gonna end up contaminating a dump somewhere.

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stevasaurus

I'll bet you could drive over an egg and not break it.  :eusa-think:

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Pullstart

Because 6 isn’t always enough?  That could cross the ditch without bobbing a guy’s head... that’s for sure!

 

 

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SylvanLakeWH

Meh...

Wrong color...

What’s with all the green today? :teasing-poke:

 

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35 minutes ago, pullstart said:

 

 

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Aw... she looks so cute out there...

 

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JoeM

Now that is a double dog dare you machine,

maybe he couldn't get 10 to work????

battery might be for the lights...... night plowing before time change. :confusion-shrug:

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seuadr

no ag tires? he'll just spin on anything but the stickiest asphalt! :lol:

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littleredrider

317s don't have power steering!! Maybe one front tire is a touch taller, so actually only one tire is touching the ground, so steers like normal?

 

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Stepney

"Oh, the more wheels 'ya got.. the better I like it!"

 

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DennisThornton
1 hour ago, littleredrider said:

317s don't have power steering!! Maybe one front tire is a touch taller, so actually only one tire is touching the ground, so steers like normal?

 

Man!  I thought the 300 series did have power steering!  I know others do but a quick Google only finds "JD317 power steering conversion"s.

 

Thanks for the correction!  But now I'm even more confused!

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Pullstart
4 hours ago, seuadr said:

no ag tires? he'll just spin on anything but the stickiest asphalt! :lol:


TRUE!  For the heck of it I tried hill climbs today.  Duals.  Yup.  Weight?  Yup hundreds of pounds of Titanic chains.  Traction?  Not a chance :ROTF:

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SylvanLakeWH
5 minutes ago, pullstart said:


TRUE!  For the heck of it I tried hill climbs today.  Duals.  Yup.  Weight?  Yup hundreds of pounds of Titanic chains.  Traction?  Not a chance :ROTF:


meh... :snooty:

 

Must have been user error...

 

The meticulous design elements engineered into placement of those chains ensures perfect utilization of all aspects of :wh:‘s legendary adaptability to all conditions... :handgestures-thumbupright:

 

or, maybe not... :hide:

 

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Pullstart
11 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:


meh... :snooty:

 

Must have been user error...

 

The meticulous design elements engineered into placement of those chains ensures perfect utilization of all aspects of :wh:‘s legendary adaptability to all conditions... :handgestures-thumbupright:

 

or, maybe not... :hide:

 

:occasion-clown:


that explains it, I’ve since rearranged the chain placement!  

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Tractorhead

I believe the Battery will releases the frontaxle while working as counterweight,

the only sense i see in it.

 

- except if the Tyres are all Helium filled,

so he needs the Battery, to not fly away...

 

 

yap - that‘s it believe me... he is the Sohn of Doc Emmet Brown...

That‘s the only logical consequence...

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johnnymag3

Only a Green guy would do something like that.....Serves no purpose:confusion-shrug:    as Dennis stated earlier.....:greetings-clappingyellow:

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DennisThornton

I guessing there's a reason.

A ripper followed by dried mud on a furrow plow, yet no mud elsewhere...

Flotation tires to drain a marsh or wet area?  

 

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