Bob: Plowing with narrow front you best pay close attention and have a good grip on the wheel. With right rear wheel in furrow, right front wheel takes more weight. If that steering wheel slips free in your hands, the spokes can crack you harder across the knuckles than any 5th grade teacher ever did with the yard stick.
This applies to most work with narrow front tractors and for some reason I've heard tell of more injuries from C, SC, 200, etc. than from the big tractors. When I was in high school had a friend destroy a wrist watch and another friend suffer a broken wrist both from the smaller tractor. We had an H and 300 at home, I've got wacked good by those but no broken bones.
You can relax a bit more with wide front, but it wont be near as manuverable on the headlands.
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