My tractor developed a leak of hydraulic fluid level sight on the back of the transmission. The dealer gave me new improved part and advised me to park the tractor nose down slope, pull the sight out and press in the new one. There is a slope about 25 deg on side of our driveway so I pointed the tractor down and drove on the slope. Once the rear wheels left the driveway the tractor accelerated very rapidly even though I stepped on the brake. When it reached the bottom it did almost complete doughnut, balancing on two wheels for a while and stopped. Only then I realized what happened. The rear wheels lost traction and the machine was just sliding down. When I tried to reverse the tractor back to the driveway it would climb a little bit and the wheels started to slip. Only after I engaged the front wheel drive it climbed the slope. The moral of the story is: Unless you have a tractor with all four wheel with breaks always engage front wheel drive to have four wheel breaking action. The tractor has industrial tires, ROPS and I was wearing seat belt.
Here is my questions: Would loaded tires help? How the guys with two wheel drive tractors do it.
