Really don't know for sure . The little Case i bough in the Spring of 69 was off a rental from Tenneco and was used to mow gas line wright aways , it had a power angle blade three point hitch and the 540 PTO . AND she was a gasser . All i can say about it was ok not a real power house as it only had about 30 Hp. Used it for light construction jobs some land clearing and a couple ponds Then in the summer of 1970 we got a contract to mow gasline wright aways for Tenneco 4 line at 97 miles each . After doing that job every thing we farmed felt like flat land . We mowed hills that we so steep that a dirt bike could not go up them . We hired 4 yung guys to do the hand work around fences and stand pipes and they brought there dirt bikes done to get to these places and found out that they could not make it up some of the hills SO they would have to hitch a ride on the dozer or the Case 430 wheel tractor that we rented . WE ran and 8 footer on the dozer and a 7 footer on the 430 . First day down there i put 700 lbs on the nose of the 430 thinking that would be enough , NOT on the first hill we made one round an shut down went back to the Case dealer and picked up 600 more lbs for the ft. . A few days later we added two I H weight brackets to the blade of the dozer and hung 2000 lbs on it and at time coming up the real steep hill the dozer with the bushhog on the ground there was only the back two roller and sproket touching . There were two hills that we had to use the dozer on and could only mow down then and just enough power to drive in low to the top draggen the bushhog . Can't remember how many times i slid off some of the hills with one wheel doing 900 MPH forward and the other tire doing 900 mph backwards . Having to len forward over the steering wheel to keep the nose on the ground while going up. Heck even the dozer slid off one hill so fast that it went thru a gully that was soft up over a 5-6 foot rise and down thru the other gully and stopped 5 foot up the next hill . I was not on the dozer my buddy was and the look on his face was a true Kodak moment Both track lock dead engine dead tracks packed full of mud makes for one H of a ski ride . I would bet that he came off that hill doing no less then 55-70 MPH. Was nothing i could do but wait till the mud stopped flyen and pick up the pices . When it stopped Mikey just sat frozen in the seat with both steering levers in a death grip pulled clean back into his chest mouth wide open and eyes buggen out of there sockets.Don't even think he was breathen Just sat there while i ran over to see if he was ok . After a couple seconds he looks at me and says AHHHHHHH i don't think i am going to get that last little strip up there in the middle it's a bit slick.
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