I also remember pulling a FULL gravity box of cob corn up a sharp hill with a gravel driveway and trees on both sides. This was at a field I rented close-by the farm. I was 2/3 the way up that hill when the rear wheels began to scratch and loose traction on my SH. I was screwed ! The wagon surely out-wieghed the tractor, and if I stopped it would drag me back down the hill and jack knife into the trees. No way to continue up the hill either. So, I let her dig two big holes in the driveway with the rear tires using the foot brakes to alternate and dig even type holes. I let it dig til the drawbar was almost on the ground.That allowed me to hold the load with the brakes and engine compression. I walked home and got another tractor,a cable, and the wife, and hitched em together to get up the slope. I didn t fill the wagons full after that episode !
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Traction - by Chris Pratt. Our first bout with traction problems came when cultivatin with our Massey-Harris Pony. Up till then, this tractor had been running a corn grinder and pulling a trailer. It had new unfilled rear tires and no wheel weights. The garden was already sprouting when we hooked up the mid-mount shovel cultivators to the Pony. The seed bed was soft enough that the rear end would spin and slowly work its way to the downhill side of the gardens slight incline. From this, we learned our lesson sinc
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