Brakes are good and good brakes are even better. But stopping isn’t just about absorbing a heap of kinetic energy and thereby avoiding a close encounter with a Conor 2750R or a Redrock 3500 (these are both big muck spreaders); you really do not want to tangle with a 15-ton unholy trinity of steel and cow shit.
The stopping I was alluding to is that most basic stop thing, simply stopping the motor. Straightforward? Yeah sure! Back in the Middle Ages a pal of