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Southeast Washington | We run a Case IH 9260 with the 4 wheel steering and we have had no problems with the steering systems or the axles. It now has about 5500 hours on it. I usually run it in front wheel steering pulling the 1560 drill and only turn on the 4 wheel steering when making the sharp corners. When pulling wide equipment like harrows or sprayers then I leave it in the front steering mode so it can't be turned too sharp.
On the hillsides is where I really like it over the articulated tractors. In front steering mode when you turn up the hill the tractor will go up the hill. An articulated when you turn up the hill the front goes up and the back turns down and rototills the ground when wet or when dry pulls your equipment down the hill before it starts to go up and makes skips. With the front wheel steer only the tractor isn't working against itself when going across hillsides. That is why they were very popular in our area around the Blue Mountains. The steep soft areas now mostly use the Challengers to farm them.
I don't use the crab steering much except maybe to deadhead across seeded ground I will turn the tractor sideways so that each tire makes a track and not have a couple tractor tracks and the drill track on top of each other.
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One more Case 4 Wheel ?
