[AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

[Chuck Bealke]

Dean,

Looking at your sexy tractor naked in the snow, seeing the "steering 
brake" references and recalling your comments a few days ago about band 
vs. disc brakes jogged an old mind.  I remembered one place where the 
wide front end tractors seemed to beat the pants off the tricycles - 
plowing on hillsides.  It was not uncommon to see Farmall disk brakes on 
the trikes' left side blackened from the heat from riding the brake on 
the side uphill from the furrow after plowing perpendicular to the grade 
for hours. One's left leg got a workout.  On the Super H, use of the 
uphill brake was essential to keep the nose up out of the furrow.  With 
armstrong power steering, front end weight seemed no solution.  Wonder 
if the pounding the trike front ends took over the years from 
occasionally dropping the nose into the furrow contributed to the not 
uncommon bolster shaft failures.

Chuck Bealke
Dallas