Tractor Wheel Provides Traction, Tillage

Tractor Wheel provides traction, tillage TIRES/WHEELS Miscellaneous 12-6-33 A new "till on the go" tractor wheel boosts traction and chums up soil under the wheels. Agricultural engineering student Robert Bathe at Writtle College in Essex, England, came up with the idea as a student project. Extendable lugs on the steel wheel can be set to protrude from the wheel 1 to 5 in. to dig into the soil on the go. By digging up the tire tracks it eliminates smooth ruts in the field that make the field uneven and in-crease erosion. According to a report in Power Farming magazine, the wheel causes about the same amount of compaction as a conventional wheel but significantly boosts traction, in addition to the tillage it per-forms. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Robert Barrie, Agricultural Engineering, Writtle Agricultural College, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR England.

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