As I said in my other post do not confuse the high and low multipower with the high and low gear range shifter as they are 2 separate things.
If the tractor has multipower then it effectively gives you 12 forward speeds and 4 reverse speeds instead of the 6 forward and 2 reverse speeds that you have without it. The multipower hi and low is engaged and disengage with a little lever by the steering wheel on the dash and it can be shifted on the fly without clutching.
Multipower is a great feature when it works, but they fail and are expensive to repair when they do although they can be bypassed for not much money but it takes work and effort to bypass them.
No matter what though the multipower will free wheel if you have it in low. (again does not matter if the range shifter is in high or low as that is different). So if you are on a hill always be in high multipower as otherwise it is like coasting down the hill in neutral with zero engine braking to hold you back. Real dangerous if say you are pulling a wagon load of hay that is pushing you or even to a lesser extent bushogging down a hill. Gravity will try to pull you faster than you wanna go and the only thing you can do to slow down is hope the brakes are strong enough to slow you.
Plowing down a hill with a moldboard plow in low multipower will not be a roblem as even though you have no engine braking gravity is not going to exceed the load of pulling the plow. In other words, the plow will hold you back and you will not need the engine or the brakes to do hold you back on the hill.
Always remember: Only in high multipower do you have engine braking. Of course you can use the foot pedal brakes to brake or steer with at any time.
Typically the multipower will stick in low when it fails. Tractor can be driven for years like that but it has no engine braking in low so can be dangerous depending on application being used. Unscrupulous sellers will remove the little multipower lever and say tractor was a mutipower delete model instead of fixing it properly.
Disregard the whole hill hold feature post unless stopping in the middle hill while going up it is something you think might be beneficial to you. In all my 30 some years operating a tractor I have never needed this feature. I was taught years ago, to never stop in the middle of a hill whether on a tractor, dirt bike, quad, etc. Stop at the top and on flat land when at all possible. Course I do not farm hill country either. Regardless this feature only works in high multipower so the root premise of always being in high multipower when on hills still applies.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 13:37:51 03/23/15 2 times.
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