About an 1811

Joe I agree with you there. I've never understood the hype. Yeah it'll give you more weight having the cast rear but isn't that what weights and tire ballast is for? I read these posts about people purposely switching out the aluminum rear for the cast rear in the 82 series for plowing/heavy duty work purposes. Doesn't make sense. An aluminum rear aint gonna fail unless somebody was abusing it. I was recently at a plow day and following a couple supers with cast rears and they were constantly getting stuck. I was behind them just chugging along constantly having to stop for them. In their situation the cast rears didn't help any. My super with aluminum rear did really good.

I had 72 lbs of wheel weights and about 180lbs of ballast and then my 220lbs. The others had plenty for wheel weights but maybe they didn't didn't have ballast. I had no problems once I got the plowing depth set correctly. The ground was in poor shape the top was wet and several inches in was really dry so that made it interesting. I routinely check my bolts so hopefully I'll catch one if it ever backs off. I definitely don't ever foresee doing anything remotely close enough to risk cracking or breaking a housing. I agree you won't break either unless it's been abused and neglected.

There was a guy with 2+2 looking garden tractor made out of 82 series tractors. It was awesome and he was pulling a 2 bottom. It looked just like a miniature 2+2 without the cab. The only difference is it articulated behind the steering wheel etc... It plowed really well. It had a liquid cooled kohler command in it.