Welder Dave
Senior Member
Guy helping me on the track asked me to back up the tractor to put the landscape rake on. I backed it, flipped the lever and locked the left brake so the tractor wouldn't move. Got out, helped him hook it up and away he went. The brakes aren't very good but you notice the tractor drags when you start off. About 20 minutes later I went over to see how he was doing and noticed a smell like burnt rubber. Waved at him to stop the tractor, "Don't you smell that?" as I saw smoke coming from the brake drum. He said his sense of smell isn't that good. He got off and said, now I smell it. If the brakes were better he would have been going in a left circle. Unfortunately I can't do everything myself but that's why I like to be the one running my equipment.