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1. Tractors Advance during the Depression
From: Jack Tractor
2. Tractor tires was Tractors Advance during the Depression
From: Jack Tractor
3a. Do u think this picture is funny?
From: hotdjcoolguy
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1. Tractors Advance during the Depression
Posted by: "Jack Tractor" [email protected] jacktractor
Date: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:08 pm ((PDT))
This link shows the steel wheel spokes cut to weld into a new rubber tired rim.
"In the early 30s, all tractors had steel wheels with lugs jutting out of them.
These tires had good traction in the field, but they
rode roughly and put divots into paved roads. Herman Goertzen says the rubber
wheels were more powerful, gave better gas mileage,
kicked up less dust and were more comfortable than steel.
Rubber tires, of course, were used on almost all cars. But it wasn't until
orange growers in Florida got fed up with steel lugs
damaging the roots of their trees that farmers began experimenting with rubber
tires. Before long, large truck tires were being
shipped in quantity to Florida, and the tire companies took note. In 1931, B.
F. Goodrich Co. brought out a rubber tire mounted to a
common steel rim for tractors. Other companies followed and began demonstrating
that rubber tires had just as much traction as steel
ones.
By 1933, tractor companies began offering models with rubber tires already
mounted on rims. Blacksmith shops did a growing business
retrofitting steel wheels to rubber ones. By 1940, 95 percent of new tractors
rode on rubber wheels."
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/machines_04.html
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2. Tractor tires was Tractors Advance during the Depression
Posted by: "Jack Tractor" [email protected] jacktractor
Date: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:50 am ((PDT))
Michelin bought out Goodrich Tire. This link warns against hitting tractor
tires with hammers.
http://www.michelinag.com/agx/en-US/htbuyt/mounting_storage/mounting_storage.jsp
Goodrich not only pioneered tractor tires. They developed synthetic rubber.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406400093.html
[Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jack Tractor wrote]~ In 1931, B. F. Goodrich Co.
brought out a rubber tire mounted to a
common steel rim for tractors. Other companies followed and began demonstrating
that rubber tires had just as much traction as steel
ones.~
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3a. Do u think this picture is funny?
Posted by: "hotdjcoolguy" [email protected] hotdjcoolguy
Date: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:28 am ((PDT))
LOL, I found a very funny picture and wanna know your opinion. Do u think this
picture is funny? Check the funny picture here:
http://funnycaser.webs.com/funny.htm
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