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Front wheels drive too, so I'm sure it does. Weight is a good thing on a working tractor. I see a lot of hobbiests afraid to put any tracton on their tractors. Over on a different board, they want to buy new compact tractors with loaders, and then too scared to fill the tires, add cast iron, & put a weight box on the 3pt. Oh, it might hurt the lawn..... You need weight on the back, and lots of it, to be safe with a loader. Much more so with a 4wd tractor - that front axle will keep you moving even after you get in trouble. With an old 2wd tractor with a longer wheelbase, at least if it gets light in back it will stop moving, just spin out. To work with 3pt heavier equipment and get use out of that front axle, it takes a lot of weight up front. One of the downfalls of the International company was their 2+2 tractors. They were built like a large 4wd articulated tractor, but were meant to be a middle sized tractor more like the 120-175 hp front wheel assist tractors of today. Anyhow, when you got a good pull behind them, they would start to power hop - miserable ride, & lose power/traction. Gave International a bad name. It was just a weight balance problem. Need to have the weight right on a tractor with any type of 4wd, and typically a lot more up front than one would think. As to the spreader, those chain side slingers used to be popular in the 70's around here, don't see any at all any more - what went wrong with them? That no one likes them any more? My neighbor filled it with corncobs during shelling - no one knew if it would work or not, be a mess to shovel out. Guess it didn't do much at first, kinda worried, then the chains took hold & whoooosh and it was all empty just like that. --->Paul
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