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Re: [Shop-talk] Tractor wheels

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Tractor wheels
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:53:05 -0700
> Just a guess, but maybe it's because they don't have power 
> steering in those old tractors.  The positive camber would 
> make the wheels easier to turn.

Even with power steering, they still had the extreme camber (at least the
ones with two front wheels, some only had one wheel).  For all the reasons
that Tony explained, but primarily I believe to get the contact patches as
far from the corn rows on either side as possible.

Randall
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