Fluid, Just My 2 cents

Just never had much use for fluid when I lived down on the flat. I mean who needs the silly stuff anyway?

Then, I moves up here in the darned hills. So darned pretty and all (yeah, you just wait til winter, sucker!)

I tell ya, this place is nothin but pure, uncut, USDA-inspected vertical!!.

Anyway long story short, I've been fightin' this darned driveway for 4 or 5 years now. Little H was totally useless; it was all it could do to pull itself out of this yard.

I know you can't really tell from the picture, but this drive is STEEP! Last spring, I had the local tire co. come out here and pump the little tires full of calcium.

Darned little tractor thinks it is a bloody badger now! Digs like a hound after a rabbit. It pushes and levels with an 8' bucketful of gravel going uphill!

I'm totally sold on fluid; for this kind of real estate, anyway.

Ya'll have a good evening,

Allan

PS Scotty, here in NH I can related to your geography. My lot has hills that I can only manage in 2nd or 1st.

scotty

This darned picture just simply does not show the angle of this drive.

In the middle of summer, dry as a bone, this drive is a bugger to even WALK down. Guess this is why I own a bunch of 4x4s. :>)

Allan

Hey Allan, Do these hills look anything like yours?

scotty

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scotty

I see two benefits to liquid weight small tractors, and tractors doing a lot of hauling on hard roads.

Local tire guy tells me chloride is almost an item of the past. less than 2% of new tractors tires are being filled with chloride. Farmers are finding more rubber on the ground is the answer. 4x4, duals and 46" rims all do this. My opinion the smart guys are the ones going articulated and duals. The sooner farmers demand a 100 hp articulated tractor the better off he'll be.

caseyc

Thanks a bunch for asking, but these fine folks showed me the error of my ways. I was mistaken.

Sure hurt my feelin's too! :>)

Naw, don't need it now,

Allan

If you liked the fluid, try adding chains, front and rear. You might still have to lift the bucket a little to get it to steer on ice.

Greg

I've got two full sets of weights on 'er also; maybe it is a combination of the two, who knows.

And, don't you think, tho, if a guy takes the time to service those valve stems every half a dozen years or so that the "rusting rims" thing won't happen?

I'm awfully careful about flushing any loose fluid off the tractor too.

Allan