RayCo
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2005
- Messages
- 1,029
- Location
- Chester County, PA
- Tractor
- Kubota BX24, Case 580 Super L
I have four acres, and the only flat areas on my property are the floors in my house. I try to do most of my digging uphill (tractor facing downhill, but I'm facing uphill while spun around, of course) whenever possible. When I'm digging downhill, it's just too easy to pick up the front end of the tractor or accidentally drag myself down the hill closer to the hole where I don't want to be.
I now need to do some digging on one of the steepest parts of my property. Fortunately, I have good access to do it all uphill, and am only digging here as a source for fill-dirt for elsewhere. It's hard to estimate, but I'm going to guess that the hill is about 30ー (pi/6 radians). Well, maybe. That's pretty steep. But, regardless, it's steep. So, my questions or wonderings are:
I now need to do some digging on one of the steepest parts of my property. Fortunately, I have good access to do it all uphill, and am only digging here as a source for fill-dirt for elsewhere. It's hard to estimate, but I'm going to guess that the hill is about 30ー (pi/6 radians). Well, maybe. That's pretty steep. But, regardless, it's steep. So, my questions or wonderings are:
- Where is the oil pump pickup in a BX24 engine? If it's at the rear of the pan, I'll be a bit worried about having the engine sitting there running pointing downhill (from the tractor's perspective).
- It seems like trying to decrease the angle with the loader could be good in some ways, but it also seems that it could really be quite a strain on the loader as well to have the tractor high off the ground on a hill like this. Thoughts?