Renze
Elite Member
Actually, if you pull the front wheels up in the air, the entire weight of the tractor is on the driven wheels.OK, it appears the high hitch is their way of making sure the front end comes up to excite the crowd.
Here, trailers like manure tankers came standard with a high drawbar (3 foot) in the 2wd tractor era to be able to get some traction. Later when MFWD became the standard, in the late 80s, low drawbar (20") became the standard, though with a much higher static drawbar weight because they moved the tank axle further to the back. If the tractor is too light, you can still wheelie it because of the added traction from that drawbar load, then the front axle weight x wheelbase is a smaller torque than the loaded radius of the tire x tire weight x friction factor between tire and surface.
In a pull off like these, the tractor with a low mounted chain or pullbar ALLWAYS loses because the direction of pulling pulls weight off the lower one.