Not trying to make a comment that could be taken as smart alec, but learned as a child to back up a hill with too heavy a load on the three point. Learned from my great uncle how to use too small a tractor for too big a job. 1958 Ford 861 Powermaster, only his second tractor from horse farming days, still have that tractor back in Nebraska. Anyhow, he started out with that tractor with 2 row 38 inch rows, pulling 2-14 mounted plow. Went to 3-16 mounted plow, 4 row 38 lister. Still had enough power to handle both, but had 4 chunks of railroad rail about 3 ft long mounted to the front of the tractor to handle the lister full of seed on the back. He made it QUITE clear when time to cross a terrace, to be in reverse. The worst that could happen then is it would spin. But, even going forward with a heavy load, as I tried as a youngster, is that the front would lift. With the lister, ended up with the lister planted in the terrace. In 1974, he went to 6 row 30 inch, had to finally give in and get a bigger tractor, Ford 5000 diesel row crop. Back up the heavy loads, take a smaller load, or add more front weight. DOUG
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