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Tractor is home and in the garage. They said they put tubes in the rear tires. There's snow on the ground and in RWD only the tractor lost traction a fair amount. Makes me wonder if they loaded the rear tires again.

From what they told me, the bulletin described roughing up the portion of the rim where the tire bead is. Don't shoot the messenger, that's what I was told.

UPDATE: the tractor is coming home tomorrow. Here's what transpired over the last week or two. The dealer also sells LS tractors and someone from LS contacted them recently and said they've had a few instances of their tires spinning on the rims and they issued a bulletin on what to do to fix or...

it was somewhat steep but traction was good. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed the dealer/mechanic didn't try to recreate the problem before tearing into the tractor. That would have clearly ruled in or out the possibility of the tires slipping on the rims. There was no way for me to tell, as I...

Yeah, when the dealer told me this, I was thinking to myself, "I'm glad TYM told them to keep changing parts until it was fixed." That's not typical.

The tires were loaded with beet juice.

OK, so I went down to the dealer and spoke directly to the guy in charge. He says there was nothing wrong mechanically with the tractor. Everything looked good inside after they tore it down. He said TYM told them to start replacing parts, which they are doing, but there's nothing wrong with the...

No chance on water getting in there and freezing. Tractor is parked under cover and never saw rain. Also, the dealer has torn apart the tractor and said they are waiting on parts, but hasn't told me what they think the problem is, so I don't know what parts they are supposedly waiting on.

Also, after it happened the first time, I again attempted to climb the hill and again it wouldn't move due to whatever issue it was. So, on the third try, I locked the rear, thinking it might help and nope, same thing again, so I doubt BOTH tires were spinning on their respective rims.

I guess that's possible...but every time the problem occurred, there was a significant vibration, too, like something mechanical slipping, ratcheting, or grinding. In any case, I don't have the tractor, so I can't test it.

Nothing was on the 3pt hitch. Once on the hill, the only way to continue up it was to use 4x4, because rear drive only resulted in sitting there with the loud noise and vibration in the rear end. Going down hill and on level ground I didn't need 4x4.

Just talked to the dealer. They tore into it and didn't find anything wrong. I asked if they test drove it to recreate the problem and he said they didn't. Sigh.... Not sure what's going to happen now, but he said they're going to continue troubleshooting next week.

OK, unfortunately, it uploaded as a Utoob short.

I am too. BTW, I took a video with my potato phone to document the issue. When going up hill in rear drive only, the tractor would stop moving forward and make a loud ratcheting, screeching noise, like gears stripping or something. Again, it's probably not going to be the best video, but...

Dropped the tractor off at the dealer today. Let's see what happens.