MarkF48
Gold Member
Most of my snow clearing today I did in 4WD, but later on when I was just moving some of the piles around I disengaged the 4WD and used just 2 wheel with chains on the rear. I was able get moving forward OK, but if I got up against a pile of snow the tractor would pretty much just come to a stop and neither rear wheel would attempt to spin. I could stop and engage the differential lock and get the wheels to turn and regain traction. In 4WD the front wheels would spin if they lost traction. My understanding of how a differential works is that one wheel should try to get traction and it might spin while doing so. Last summer while pulling some small stumps at least one wheel would try to spin and dug up some dirt if the tractor couldn't move forward.
Is it conceivable that while using two wheel rear that neither wheel would spin if neither could get traction in snow/ice? The manual doesn't really say much on the differential operation other than using the lock.
Tractor just turned 37 hours today.
Is it conceivable that while using two wheel rear that neither wheel would spin if neither could get traction in snow/ice? The manual doesn't really say much on the differential operation other than using the lock.
Tractor just turned 37 hours today.