B steel wheels

I looked at this 38 B today. He has a full set of steel wheels, the fronts are not mounted. The front end is an arched adjustable. Hand crank, hand brakes. He says it runs but the magneto is on a shelf in his barn. Sheet metal is rough. He's asking $750 but nobody else has even come to look at it so he's willing to deal. Is there anything rare or special about this tractor? I tried to talk him out of the wheels and give him mine to keep his rolling but he wants to sell it all.

If it were anywhere close to me, it would be home already.  The arched adjustable was a rare front end, can't remember but someone will say what years they were produced.   And the full set of steel is worth some money too.   Maybe it was a texas amish farmer that needed steel wheels!!

Nah send them up here to Lancaster County, I have quite a few people who could use them! LOL

You better go grab that one up Ed.

I wouldn't do that though....

Ed, you're looking at this wrong......you NEED that B!

Wow...I'd love to have that B.

Ed,  GREAT BUY!!! The wheels and the front axle are worth your price.  Also, you get my favorate - the B.  Don't throw the tractor away.  They are relatively easy to work on and with the steel and special adjustable axle will be a great show piece. 

Good for you, Ed. If you'd have let that one get away you'd have had our Forum privileges cut off for amonth! LOL You did very well with that tractor, congrats.

you still did good... i dont think those steel wheels came on that tractor.. the fenders are wrong.. unless it was some special order think in 38 ?

I have a 1941 B that I plan to use the steel wheels for. It has electric and foot brakes. I'd like some info on that adjustable arched if anyone knows. If it was available in 1941 it's going on that tractor also.

I would restore it - the 38's were unique in a lot of ways - not as much as the few 37's - but to my mind worth keeping intact, especially the early Adj WF - Take the steels for your 41 and put the rubber back on this one.

Glenn has it right about the front axle, just on the early B's, and I have heard only around 200 made but no one seems to know for sure.  All I know is I have never taken mine to a show and seen another there at the same time.  Mine came from TX as well, but they seem to show up just about any where.  ACEd2010 gives some good advice, put the steel on the '41 and restore the '38 with rubber.  I don't have a picture on mine right at the moment so I can't show you what the fenders and rear centers should like for the steel wheeled tractors, but I'm sure someone can post some

well heres acouple pictures of a B that had steel when new. note the wider fenders, & the hubs are like twice as thick as the regular B's with 4 notches instead of 2 notches like around the valve stem. also the steel B's had a taller air cleaner which this one in picture don't have.this picture is my other war model( 2nd from end) on steel with cut off front steel

those caps are not the same as the ones on the steel wheels. I don't know if they would fit. they might , the ones on the steel wheels are kind of rounded triangler shape. I believe the one in the picture is off a 1938 B with cast centers & rubber tires.