GERRY - Actually, Individual rear brakes aren't as helpful pushing snow, plowing etc as one would think. Especially pushing snow, one wheel spins because it has no traction, you hit the brake to stop it from spinning, and 99% of the time the other wheel just starts spinning and no forward progress is made. Both my BIG Farmall's have individual brakes. LOTS of weight and chains is the best answer there. Or go south for the winter.
A true diff. lock works best, which in the case of a CC probably means a "Lincoln Locker" or in my case, a "Miller Locker".
25 yrs ago I got stuck in 1-1/2 ft of snow on the way home from work a half mile from our house, walked home and put more clothes on, got the Land-Lord's 4430 JD out and started out to pull my truck home. I was busting thru 3-4 ft deep drifts. The tractor was swaying back and forth side-to-side rather violently, one wheel would dig down and get footing and stop and the other wheel would spin and I'd move forward a bit, then start spinning, dig down to good footing, other wheel spin, etc. etc. etc. Took me a few attempts to lock the diff, been many yrs since I ran a 4X30 series JD, I knew it had a diff lock but they moved it from where it was on the 4X20 JD's. Once I had the diff lock engaged, both wheels pulling 100% I could bust thru 4 ft tall drifts with NO problem. I basically drug my truck home thru the snow. What was scary was most of the bigger drifts I busted thru were already back to their original height on the return trip.
The steering is rather sloppy on it. Actually I didn't make it crooked but I probably didn't help it any.
