Pretty cool... 2 neighbors in one fell swoop.
Snowridge/Tedlynn.. I'm on Tellico Lake directly across from the village, maybe 2 coves towards dam from the Marina (at the village) technically, I'm in Greenback.
Snowridge.. nothing I can add that hasn't been said other than here.. for the hills I'm on, I prefer STRONGLY the R-1's.
Uncle has International 444 (I think ~ 35 hp??) anyway.. it has R-1's on rear and "tri rib" or what ever called on front. Sticks pretty well to hills.
Then there is Brutus... 18,000 full sized TLB that is mine. has R-4 type tread on back (new tires) and nice racing slicks on front /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif... on more than one occasion I have slid down some of our hills several feet during wet times...like today for example. The worst example was sliding sideways on brutus down length of my yard... yes it was a VERY slow slide, but the feeling of helplessness was very sobering /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
I wish Brutus had the traction the IH has.
for me it's easy... R-1 (the IH is only used for cutting fields, Brutus also plays in woods cleaning them up along with our road w/fallen trees)
I presume you've been to Loudon tractor....
have you been to Dooley in Athens? Dooley carries Kubota and New Holland. the dealer in north Knox carries only Kubota and last time I was there, had maybe 3 (literally) machines on their entire lot. (in fairness that was before/during the L-series changeover)
If you have any need for full sized TLB.......
Richard
