Does a boat tip fore/aft or side-to-side? Are you tipping my boat? Hey! Airplanes pitch up and down and roll side-to-side. Maybe we could call it pitch-n-roll. I think I'll call mine tip-top because that sounds like the best:thumbsup:. . . maybe not.
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Oh, Ohh...
I used to say; pitch, roll & yaw in the "Marine" context.
Recent fun 'n games on sail boards have changed my vocabulary a bit, since it is possible and often desirable to have the hull "rolled" to windward.
I think the T n' T was coined as a trade name by a vendor a few years ago and has crept into common usage.
(the way that Kleenex & Tampax, etc. have)
It might have been Carter... ? or is that Carter n' Carter ?
Anyway, I am still of the opinion that for LEARNING you need to set the top and side links, run 50 to 100 ft, evaluate the results, make SMALL adjustments, try again.
I don't see a HUGE ISSUE with climbing down off the tractor a few times to do this.
I do think you will get lumpy bumpy results if you can't keep your hands off the hydraulics for more than 5 ft at a time (-:
I have a hydraulic top link, but (so far) have resisted the hydraulic side link.
I know I can set an implement parallel to the tractor and with a manual side link I can go out and when I need a crowning or ditching cut I can crank some known number of turns on the side link. I can keep track of that in my head and later recover to parallel with the tractor.
BTW, it is rarely a lot, since on each pass the tractor tips ("rolls" ?) to the last cut.
Now, a T n' T with a GOOD POSITION CONTROL ?
Say; 5,4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,4,5 Yeah, THAT could interest me (-:
A few years ago someone did post about how they had built a set up with two hydraulic side links and a way to "zero to both fully retracted" and run them both down/up together from there if needed.
I like the idea of floating a side link, that would get me away from my chain side links that I sometimes use to allow independence between tractor and implement.