The only thing I have against it is Neil from Messicks deliberately set up that "pull test" to fail.
If you're going to try to measure how much a tractor (any) can "pull" against a stationary object, you don't put it's trans in high range. That is just stupid.
What you're saying Ptsg, makes perfect sense to me, and I agree with you about climbing hills, etc. That's fine. And if that is what the "test" is supposed to show, then they need to do that specific "thing" during the test. But pointing to the HST opening up it's relief valve because some MORON put it in high range to pull against a fixed object as somehow is "proof" that a gear is better than a hydro is just plain silly, and insults the viewer's intelligence.
Hook both tractors up (one at a time) to a wagon pulling a load up a hill if that's what you want to "test". That's fine.
Intentionally tanking a "test" to somehow "prove" something just wastes everyone else's time, and makes the video producer look like an idiot.
Seems to me Messick's must have had a bunch of gear tractors on the lot they were trying to unload that month, and he needed some "help".
