I did many hours on a big old Ford tractor w/bucket at the children's home, mowing, cutting trees and moving 71 cords of wood. Clearing overgrown cemeteries, etc.
17mph is plenty over uneven ground!
Stig
I've been told by others I shoulda spent the extra $1k to get the tires loaded, or it will get bouncy on uneven ground, I haven't found that to be the case, but almost always comparing to a smaller compact tractor, but is mine really a compact, it's bigger than the tractors I remember growing up as a kid on the typical Vermont dairy farm. Ford 9N seems to be my recollection