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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 96281" data-attributes="member: 12954">That sounds good.I got to thinking (always iffy) and realized that simply locking the control arms shouldn't be a bad way to go. It wouldn't need to be as beefy as a wheel lock downstream of the drive, and while wear or something might allow it to creep over time if it started to need adjustment, dramatic movement would only happen if a pin sheared or joint came comletely disconnected and the chances of that are extremely low.One thing I could do other than lock the control arm is to lock the actual lever which connects directly to the hydro drives. The advantage here would be that the lock takes the control rods - three less potential failure points - out of the loop. But I don't even know if that would be all that necessary.At any rate, I'm leaning very strongly to doing more what you did and feeling like locking the control side would be plenty adequate. The hydrostats in center position do lock the wheels strong enough that you can only drag the machine if pulled big enough, so that should be plwnty good for a brake, plus a lot simpler to make rigid enough for the job.</blockquote>