There's a little more to it than that. I was about 11-12 years old. Had a little odd shaped 2-3 acre patch of oats to combine that was the steepest hill on the 80 acres on one side and 2nd steepest on the other side. Had the Super M-TA on the Deere #25 combine, I had the '51 M on the good flare box wagon. Dad made 2-3 rounds and unloaded the combine's grain tank into the wagon, I pulled up to the top of the hill and stopped where I could see the combine all the way around the patch. I pulled the M into neutral and tapped the brake on the left rear wheel. There was a little pile of dry oat straw where the brake latches and the tire slid a little , gathered more straw, then a LOT more, and I was off on a sleigh ride down the hill. Wagon had less than 25 bushel in it. There was a big creek about 70-80 feet from the bottom of the hill, 8-10 ft deep and about that wide. I got the tractor stopped well before the creek. Dad didn't say anything until we were coming back to the house from doing chores, "I hope You learned something about stopping on hills this afternoon." Yep, don't do ANYTHING that breaks traction or your grip of the ground. The M easily weighed twice maybe three times what the wagon weighed. The slick dry straw on the oat stubble was like ice, I always found a level place to stop after that.
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