1930 John Deere Tractor on an AA

[Dave Mellor NJ]

Getting delivered

 

[Bruce of MN]

Those are some spikes on the rear wheels!

 

[Ayers1]

That is some weight on the back of that truck! I'm impressed!

 

[Keith True]

I see they put planks on the deck before they tried driving on with those grousers.They can do quite a job on pavement.

 

[Joe K]

Somewhere there is a pix of an AA truck with a tree trunk strapped on. Trunk literally larger in diameter than the width of the bed. I imagine pix was from the pacific northwest.

It might be part of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3CGjeg5tk

AA trucks are literally "big iron." Fordgarage.com goes into some detail of the "sextette" modification used to beef up the suspension.

https://fordgarage.com/pages/warfordsextette.htm

Joe K

 

[ModelA29]

Those are some spikes on the rear wheels!

That photo shows up in this video about the change of tractors to rubber tires in the 1930s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvQ60OX2Xts

 

[Model A Canuck]

The tractor on the back of the AA is a 1930 John Deere model D 15-27hp

 

[Model A Canuck]

Those are some spikes on the rear wheels!

Those are called cleats or spade lugs

 

[Bruce of MN]

Spikier than mere lugs!

 

[Keith True]

We call them spade grousers here.Just different terminology.We don't drink soda,we drink tonic.Although,that is changing.I now hear it referred to as soda in stores.I had a 53 Farmall H on steel with those spades.When the town was tearing up about 300 feet of pavement in front of my driveway they were peeling it up with a bucket.I took my H out and ran up and down a few times,it scarified and pulverized the old pavement pretty good.Then they loaded it up like gravel.

 

[ThirstyThirty]

All I can say as a Farmer/Rancher is...

the pix! Thanks! found the wheel tech interesting, too! Thanks!... I was pretty sure those were not turf tires!