Can't remember the member who wanted to see how my great-granddad's 60A was set up, as far as the sprocket attached on the bearing hub he had welded on, but I promised some photos, so here they are.
Note: These are split rims, and while they do work, I would use regular rims if I was starting from scratch like you are.
And here is the left wheel, so you know what it looks like under the sprocket hub on the right side.
As you can see here, 4 metal tabs were welded on to the wheel hub, then a flat plate with a hole in the center welded to those. The sprocket from the original wheel bolts to that flat plate. That way when you need to pack the bearings, you just unbolt the sprocket to get to the cap on the hub, so you can take the wheel off. Works great! I'm still not sure how whoever welded those tabs on (granddad didn't have a welder) got everything lined up so perfect. I've raised the combine and spun that wheel, and it is perfectly in the center of that hub. No wobble at all. I was surprised.
And here is how the new hub is welded on to the old axle.
A little trivia that I don't know the answer to....what vehicle did these wheels come off of? They have hub cap clips on them and the wide 5 bolt pattern, so I thought they were 1939 Ford car hubs. But....they're split rims, and I didn't know Ford used those.
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