Would you drive a 1930's tractor at 65+ mph?

Use to drive the folk's tractors to town. 9 mile drive on gravel road. Anyway, steering wobble, rear tires out of round, and rough road.

When rear tires were in sync, wasn't a bad ride, bouncing up and down. Out of sync, you were flopping back and forth sideways.

It was a very cold ride in winter. Thanks for reminding me of the good old days.
 
Don McCombs said:
I’ve done 4th gear, full throttle on the Super C. I have no idea how many mph that was, but it was scary.
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In the original configuration, 10-5/8 MPH. Governor setting and tire size would change it a little.
When rear tires were in sync, wasn't a bad ride, bouncing up and down. Out of sync, you were flopping back and forth sideways.
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It can get really wild with rear tires that are loaded with liquid. At low speed, the water stays near the bottom of the tire. As speed increases, it begins to pour over the center from back to front. Finally, it will just go around and around creating a huge imbalance. If both tires do that and are out of sync, the effect can be spectacular. Partially full tires are reported as worse behaved than ones filled to the valve stem. (I found this description hard to believe until a saw a tractor rocking violently from side to side with no other evident explanation.)
 
SONNY said:
This one would have been a 1 only and special made for this. Its NOT an off the line unit for sure!
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Special tires and some special guts in the transmission, but they did make a show of using it to till, dropping the implement, then going on high speed runs.
 
Urbish said:
Special tires and some special guts in the transmission, but they did make a show of using it to till, dropping the implement, then going on high speed runs.
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Stock 319 cubic inch engine block rated at 1200 rpms. Bit of governor tweaking, 3600 - 4000 rpms. Piston change to up the compression ratio. Gear change in differential. After market over drive unit. Tires and rims balanced, checked for out of round.

Parts manual for the WC, WF Allis Chalmers engines lists 9 piston assemblies. One of the assemblies has a compression ratio of 6.6 to 1.
 
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