We have a fairly steep abandoned railroad bank behind our house that I seeded to grass amd have mowed for many years. You can only go up, it will slide down. I use a 430 JD with turf tires and it will spin out if its wet or slippery. One day I came home with a Wheel Horse Work Horse that had bar tires on it. That particular model had a Briggs instead of a kohler.....light in the front. I went down as usual and started back up. About 3/4 of the way up those fine bar tires dug in and before I could hit the clutch, over backward I went. I slid about 6 ft down the hill on my shoulders with whole weight of the tractor on the steering wheel that was setting on my chest and everthing running including the deck. It finslly fell off to the right side and I shut it off. I got up and took inventory to see if anything was missing. Just two bunged up shins from the pedals. I set it back up on its wheels, fired it up and mowed the rest of the yard. Prayers of thanks were said. Two days later my chest was really sore.
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