Patent ID: 8626404

Claim:
A system for preventing wheel slippage during grading of a surface by a grader, the system comprising: a grader having a plurality of ground engaging elements and a grading blade extending from the grader toward a surface underlying the grader, the grader including a user interface portion; a primary power source and a transmission linking the primary power source to one or more of the plurality of ground engaging elements; a user-settable torque limiter and an accelerator control on the user interface portion of the grader, wherein the user-settable torque limiter is configured to be adjustable by an operator of the grader to indicate a desired maximum torque to be applied by one or more of the plurality of ground engaging elements; and a controller for receiving a signal from the user-settable torque limiter and responsively setting a maximum torque available from the transmission to the one or more of the plurality of ground engaging elements regardless of commands received from the accelerator control.