skylarkguy
Platinum Member
So I have been randomly noodling something about front brakes on tractors. Neither of my tractors have front brakes, which is most of my experience. I'm not sure about newer tractors but I guess I haven't actually seen a tractor with front brakes. I'm wondering why?
Outside of helping the tractor turn with split rear brakes, I don't see and advantage to only having the rear brakes control the stopping power of the tractor. Obviously there would be extra complexity to the tractor, but it seems like the stopping ability would be greatly enhances with 4 wheel brakes.
Perhaps I'm missing somethings about loads and weight distribution so that it wouldn't matter, What say you all?
Outside of helping the tractor turn with split rear brakes, I don't see and advantage to only having the rear brakes control the stopping power of the tractor. Obviously there would be extra complexity to the tractor, but it seems like the stopping ability would be greatly enhances with 4 wheel brakes.
Perhaps I'm missing somethings about loads and weight distribution so that it wouldn't matter, What say you all?