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RCP
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I did that once on a John Deere B, I was wishing I hadn't when the front wheels started shimmying.
Rich
oliver fan
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Not to be confused with Mexican overdrive witch means, No Brakes.
Crazy Horse
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Frank(Mi.)
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Tom Bowman
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Tom Bowman
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Could've just been "No-Doz", I guess...
fixerupper
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Dad did that with a Deere A. He was pulling a loaded wagon down a hill going into a small town in the early morning. (Linn Grove Iowa). The road was frosty in the shade of the trees and he couldn’t hold the load back on the slick frost so he threw it in neutral and zipped through Main Street flying along in neutral. This was in the early fifties and the A was a 51 so the steering was still tight. I still have that A, drove it the other day. It always starts first time up.
Ronnie Budd
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(quoted from post at 15:45:18 06/07/18)Could've just been "No-Doz", I guess...
Yep, No Doz. Back in the day, they were right next to the cash register when you went in to pay for your fuel.
As far as the "Georgia Overdrive" goes, personally, I always kept it in high gear and let it run downhill as fast as it would go. Then, stand on the throttle just as I hit the bottom so I could make it farther up the next hill before having to start downshifting.
Think about it guys. If you take the transmission out of gear, you would have no engine control over speed at all, no jake brake, and would have a devil of a time ever getting back in gear. Throwing it in neutral is an urban myth.
roaddevil49
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olgentdc
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that , If its a gasser F-600 , The durn motor mite stall and a Guy will get
Beverly hillbillies steering and No Brakes ,, WAH hoo!! I think "6 days on the
road " guitar and string artists did a wonderful job mimicking the gasoline
engine of a big rigg.
Funny story. I was headed down a hill into a quarry driving a customers old 980B Cat rubber tired loader. I wanted to slow down to make the curve at the bottom of the hill, so I hit the brake. Nothing happened....Figuring the brake valve might have been bad, I hit the other one which is supposed to brake, as well as putting the transmission in neutral. This time braking was the least of my worries, as I lost all speed control when it hit neutral. Thankfully I had room to drop and drag the bucket. Even though I got my speed down a little, there was still a crease in the seat where my cheeks scrunched it up before I made it out of the curve. What a ride.
preacher man
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