I suspect either the belt is slipping or shear pins or a hub key is sheared.

wow that's amazing i thought it might be newer since it is in such great shape it smokes alittle black when first started but not when running. it has a massive rear axle (transaxle) i just finished stripping the paint and now it is shiny blue and white again.

I've got the same tractor, but mine was rebuuilt with a 12 volt system, much improved over the 6 volt. Best starting device I have ever owned. Bought a hay wagon for occasional hayrides. Nice, fun tractors, but not very fast ground speed when pulling haywagon on roads.

Thanks for the advice guys! I've also read about something called a cultipacker. Is that something that would be useful, or easy to find? I figured a disk harrow would be about the only option, I'm still hesitant however, since the only thing that's been done to the plot is plowing with bottom plow. Do you think the clumps and clods are too big for a disk to manage? Or am I just going to have to go over like 87 times? Larso1, I think the no-till method, while ideal for sustainable systems, wouldn't work for me this year since the ground is newly plowed. I'm not sure how it works exactly, other than you leave last years crops on the surface instead of tilling them under and use a special machine for seeding through the layer of crop material. By doing this, the soil is less prone to erosion and retains a higher percentage of carbon. thanks for the help!