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

[Dean Vinson]

Hi Chuck.  Yes, I can imagine how a wide front would help in that situation.
I'm betting your hillside plowing days on the Super H weren't in Dallas.  :)

I did a lot of sidehill plowing a long time ago but it wasn't with an
M-series or narrow-front tractor...it was on my dad's old Case VAH.  At the
time I didn't realize it was a high-crop, or that sidehill plowing with a
high-crop wasn't necessarily the best idea.  It was just the tractor, and
the field needed to be plowed.  Fortunately there were no incidents.  I
don't recall having to use the left brake much to keep the front end from
drifting downhill.  But I sure burned a lot of gas driving all the way back
around at the end of each furrow; the hill was steep enough I couldn't throw
uphill.

Years later, on that same hillside, I used my first Super M to rake hay.  No
trouble then either keeping the tractor straight, but after half an hour or
so I noticed how tired I was of trying to stay upright in the seat; the
slope wasn't so steep it was uncomfortable to make a single pass across it,
but steep enough that after a while it was a pain.  I was glad for fenders
to rest a stabilizing hand or foot against.

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio


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

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
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