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Hi,
I know there have been many comments here about how those tractors mowing the grass between/beside the interstates seem to do the impossible...
But today I saw one mowing a side slope and I could not believe my eyes! OK, maybe it was only /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif about a 30 degree slope that the guy was traversing. I could get a pretty good idea of how steep the slope was, because it was between the interstate lanes, AND so close to the road with little shoulder, that had the tractor tipped the roll bar would certainly have landed in the traffic lane. So the angle I viewed the tractor from was almost from directly behind.
Further down the road I saw tractor tracks on side slopes that I might not want to go up, let alone across.
So if these guys have tilt meters installed...and from posts here I understand many states are installing them in their road maintenance tractors...what are the drivers being told to do. Not to exceed 30 degrees? 35 degrees?
The tractor I saw was pulling an assembly of three mowers or rotary cutters...
All I could say or think was...WOW /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif WOW /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
Curious to know...what kind of guidelines are these operators given?
Bill in Pgh, PA
I know there have been many comments here about how those tractors mowing the grass between/beside the interstates seem to do the impossible...
But today I saw one mowing a side slope and I could not believe my eyes! OK, maybe it was only /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif about a 30 degree slope that the guy was traversing. I could get a pretty good idea of how steep the slope was, because it was between the interstate lanes, AND so close to the road with little shoulder, that had the tractor tipped the roll bar would certainly have landed in the traffic lane. So the angle I viewed the tractor from was almost from directly behind.
Further down the road I saw tractor tracks on side slopes that I might not want to go up, let alone across.
So if these guys have tilt meters installed...and from posts here I understand many states are installing them in their road maintenance tractors...what are the drivers being told to do. Not to exceed 30 degrees? 35 degrees?
The tractor I saw was pulling an assembly of three mowers or rotary cutters...
All I could say or think was...WOW /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif WOW /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
Curious to know...what kind of guidelines are these operators given?
Bill in Pgh, PA