Hauling grain with a 160 hp tractor with around 5500 hours and pulling 900 bushels of grain. I throttled down first, then shifted down and heard severe grinding coming from under my feet in the cab of the tractor. I couldn't just stop there at all. I unloaded the grain at the elevator, limped home with no more noise, and parked the tractor. The repair shop came out with a truck and loaded up the tractor. A week later I attended "the viewing." The entire rear end tub had been removed from the tractor with not a single part left inside. I saw the shafts and gears on a table and on the floor in the shop. I would not have been surprised to see something like this in a tractor with 10,000 hours, but this was hard to comprehend. I know the prior owner did use it to haul all his grain to the elevator, and I had heard this type of use could be rough on these transmissions. I now understand how, why, and I tend to operate this a little differently as a result of this experience. A few years later, the engine was completely rebuilt/overhauled. We discovered some more misuse/abuse by the prior owner once again. I have a lot of money stuck into that tractor, but it will outlast me!
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