TripleR
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- Joined
- Mar 5, 2009
- Messages
- 18,615
- Location
- Missouri
- Tractor
- Kubota M8540HDC, L5740HSTC, BX2200, BX2660, John Deere 425&1025R, Case, Massey Ferguson, Ford
And if you *are* in the wrong gear and need to clutch it...well, now you better hope your brakes are good. With my HST, I can come to a full stop and even start to back up the hill, all under full power and control. In addition, I've seen a gear tractor stall out and at the moment of the stall, start running backwards, sucking in air from the exhaust. Granted that was under load from digging, not a hill, but I can imagine that wouldn't be a good time on a hill.
Yeah, we have a couple of tractors like that and only use them on our flat land farm, other than pi** poor brakes, they are really good old tractors. We have really good brakes on our M8540 fortunately as we often have to change directions on some pretty steep slopes.
I had an old two-stroke dirt bike that would stall out and start running backward if pushed to hard, really scary on a slope; usually bucked me off.