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Bob..... ...yes and no. There are 2-speed OverDrive Shermans with a "L" shifter lever over yer left toe. There are some less common 2-speed UnderDrive Shermans with a "L" shifter lever over yer left toe. Then there is the more common and popular dealer installed 3-speed Combo Shermans (OD + UD + Std) with a crooked doglegged "S" shifter over yer left toe. Problem with UnderDrive is it slows the PTO rpms too and really doesn't slow the tractor groundspeed enuff as the rare and fragile Howard after-tranny rototiller auxillary transmission. (Howard is about 3.5:1 gearing slowdown; Sherman UD is about 1.75:1 slowdown) Shermans sell for about $500+ on e-bay, but only add about $200 to tractor price at auction. Every spring, this great N-Board gitt inn-queeries about rototillin' with their N-Tractors; the answers is always the same. The N-Tractor is too high groundspeed for rototillin' but are great 2-bottom plowin' fool. (it'll plow an acre in about 1-hr but you'd rototill for 4-hrs for that same acre). There are some that'll "bragg" about rototillin' with their N-Tractors, then they'll conffess take'm 4-6 passes with the rototiller before they gotten the soil tilth conditioned. Thats 16-24hrs for 1-acre. Iff'n Ya just gottta rototill, RENT a rototiller tractor ($100/day)..... ....Dell
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