Wide Front Axle For IH Tractor

Wide Front Axle For IH Tractor TRACTORS Accessories 17-6-11 After years of getting stuck when doing loader work with his IH Super M-TA with a narrow front end, Gerald Fedler, Ft. Madison, Iowa, found a way to solve the problem by mounting the steering axle from an Oliver 535 combine on the tractor. "I made the change about a year and a half ago. Factory-made wide front ends are hard to find and expensive. This modification worked much better than I expected and now I can go places I never would have tried before," says Fedler. He mounted the entire axle assembly from the combine on the Super M-TA, including the power steering cylinders. He had to build a large mounting bracket to fit under the front end to hold the axle. It has a pivot built into it, allowing the axle to oscillate back and forth from side to side. He mounted the combine steering wheel and steering motor in place of the tractor's original steering column. The tractor had power steering on it originally so he just used the tractor pump to power the combine steering components. "It was really quite an easy conversion to do. Anyone with a little hydraulic knowledge and a welder and cutting torch could do it," says Fedler. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gerald T. Fedler, 1819 Otte Road, Ft. Madison, Iowa 52627 (ph 319 837-6352).

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