Cage Wheels, are they really that bad?!

Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
Just thinking out aloud...

Little David Brown and Box Seed Drill, would I see any benefit from adding a pair of cage wheels to the tractor for either winter or spring sowing?

What's the good and bad things about them?!
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
Cage wheels were good for light tractors under 50hp. Over that it seemed nobody could design a wheel to take the stress and strains. but I rather suspect you know that already ;)
 

carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer
Anything which has five star in the name, should have been strangled at birth
Of course the (superior ?) catchpole cage wheels didn't work on that system.
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carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer
Just thinking out aloud...

Little David Brown and Box Seed Drill, would I see any benefit from adding a pair of cage wheels to the tractor for either winter or spring sowing?

What's the good and bad things about them?!
I guess in answer to this post, they are better than nothing. Would reduce the wheelings (a little). But a set of small duals would be preferable. Least you'd have some teeth left if you went on the road with duals.

Farm a few miles away used to use them a fair bit in the 70s so the tractor driver who worked there said. Lots of road work ??.
Reckoned it was torture going up and down the thetford road, rattling the tractors to hell and back.

BUT, if your only doing little bit. No road work, they will do a job. And as mentioned previously, do a job when it's really too wet to be fair.
 

carbonfibre farmer

Member
Arable Farmer
The trick was keeping the wheel pressure just right so On the road the cage took no weight, as long as you did not mount the verge .
of course on a small tractor there was no excuse taking them on and offwith a small piece of wood took seconds , not minutes!
Unfortunately ours appear to be for 13.6 36 but the tractor tyres are 12.4 36. No amount of pumping the tyres stops them banging like mad on hard surfaces ?
Having had the pads rebuilt a time or 2 has increased the circumference.....
They are also bloody heavy. If they drop on the floor, it takes a fair lift to pull up. Bettison duals on the other hand are lightweight in comparison.
 

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