Large Tractor Questions

[Ormagoden]

How come none of the tractors in the large category have narrow tires or options for front loaders? Surely in real life those tractors would have access to them. Now im not saying anything larger than a Case Magnum 380 would have narrow tires. It just strange to have the lack of options. Tractors are the main tool on your farm, the bigger the tractor the more work done right?

[Mod Sloth]

My guess would be that large tractors are really only necessary for large-scale plowing and cultivating - neither of which should result in destroyed crops (at least, not due to tire size). I'm not a farmer though, so this is just a guess.

[margalus]

A tractor that size would never be taken on a growing field for any reason, so there are no skinny tires like that

[JPSGT40]

Most also lack a front PTO.
The John Deere 8400R and Fendt 1050 seem to be the largest that offer a front PTO.

[Tankfriend]

Originally posted by Ormagoden:

Tractors are the main tool on your farm, the bigger the tractor the more work done right?

Not necessarily. A tractor with front loader also needs reasonable size and maneuverability. If the tractor is too large to fit where it needs to go or is too immobile to move around doing the loading, then it's not doing a good job. It's also going to take more time and burn more fuel to do the job a smaller tractor could do for a fraction of the time and cost. And if you really needed a huge tractor for loading duty due to the amount of goods to be moved, it's very likely that you'd already have good use for a wheel loader or telehandler, instead. More expensive to get a specialized machine, but much more efficient.

It's prettty similar for the care wheels problem. At the point where you'd need such a large tractor to work a sprayer or spreader of such a massive size, you'll be better off getting an autonomous sprayer or spreader for more efficiency.

[Ormagoden]

Well the Case IH Puma @270HP I think is the best tractor in the Med category. It has a front loader, narrow tires and 2 PTO's. But it would be nice if the Case Magum had the narrow tire option. I have seen Case Magnums used as a row crop for spraying irl but it had dual narrow tracks

[Usedfireball]

Originally posted by margalus:

A tractor that size would never be taken on a growing field for any reason, so there are no skinny tires like that

Yes big 4X4 tractors can have "skinnies" on them... Have a neighbor that farms by me that pulls their planter with a big JD tractor with narrow tires that will fit down a 22" row. Duals front and back with a spacer between so they have 2 rows between each tire.

I have a CIH 9150 tractor with bar axles and tires that fit down 30" rows, not a common setup but they do exist.

Google "CIH Rowtrac" also... narrow width tracks on pretty high HP tractors.

[Agreas]

In real life, it boils down to a few key factors.. Floatation, compaction, and something I call "dig factor" (how much are your tractor's tires gonna chug and dig through the particular soil that you're trying to drag that particular implement through.). The quick and easy answer to your 'care tires on larger tractors' question is that those tractors are HEAVY.. Couple that with a 15 furrow plow that wants nothing more than to stop your tractor in it's tracks.. Care tires would dig in up to the axles so fast that you'd feel like you were in a falling elevator.. There's a reason you never see a JD 9RT or a Case Quadtrack pulling a sprayer.. Those are very easy to pull. A small or mid sized tractor WITH row crop tires can easily pull said sprayer between the rows without having to worry about digging a hole up to your shoulders.. You need the floatation on larger tractors.. And you need larger tractors to do all the heavy lifting.. I digress.. Long story short.. It's a "digging holes in the field" thing..

Kyle