Bob,
The photo you sent via email is nice and big. That tractor is in amazing cosmetic shape for still having the original paint!! Way, way better than mine, which I am sure is original, but not much paint left...
You read my mind on the wheels. I was going to ask you if they had always been turned around that way, and if there was a reason why. The mounted corn picker makes perfect sense. I think mine must have had something mounted on the front due to a couple of "brackets" bolted to the frame. I was suspecting front mount cultivators.
I am attaching a photo of one of these "brackets". Does anybody recognize this and know for sure what it was used for?
Thanks,
JB