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Hi,
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This is a second [now third!] attempt at posting this...somehow lost the first one part way through...after hitting the enter key twice, for reasons unknown to me [I mean the reason I hit that key twice.../w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif]
Any way, I will try again…
In a post at the end of this thread here</font color=blue> Rick [Mr. Tiltmeter /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif] suggests:
<font color=blue>Very curious what it measures. How about a picture to post? Then we ask TBN members toguess the degree of slope. No cheating guys. Don't measure the slope in the picture. Just guess. </font color=blue>
I had been /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif by the sight of a tractor mowing the median of I70, right next to the traffic lane on my last run down to TSC. And I believed it would be possible to stop and measure the angle, as I thought the tractor was tilted so far that the operator risked tipping it on its side, which would have dropped the ROPS into the traffic lane, or close to it.
Yesterday I used this as an excuse to head to TSC in Wheeling, West Virginia, which is about an hour from my home. The sky was blue and the weather warm; a great day for a drive. I should have known things would not go smooth, after having to run back to get my wallet shortly after heading up the driveway. At least I had money to turn into something at TSC!
When I was too far down the road to want to turn back again, I realized that I forgot my carpenter’s level and tape measure! Measuring the slope I intended to photograph was now out of the picture./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Now I must tell you that I fully intended to stop on the interstate and to get out and snap a couple. I did stop, but must say…there is not too much of a shoulder on the right side of I70, and practically nothing on the left…my van did its version of shake, rattle and roll as the 18 wheelers whized past…and that immediately convinced me that getting out along the side of that road was something to for someone with less brains than I have to do [if you can find that guy, my wife says it’s not possible...but that’s another story /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif]
So far two strikes against me…so all I can do is try to take some photos as I drive. Aren’t digital cameras wonderful? By the way…I learned it is not really advisable to use the small camera viewfinder to drive by…sort of like a low tech imitation of one of those remote control drones…they must have a bigger screen…buzz strips on the road side do have some value, after all…but I degress…
I did get a couple photos, which could be of some interest here. So I will post them now. Unfortunately, no measurement was possible. So the best we can do is guesstimate what the angles are. Would any of these slopes worry you?
I am pretty sure these photos show slopes that have been mowed by tractors running on them, as compared to a tractor using one of those hydraulic boom mowers.
I’ll attach a couple comments to “replies” where additional photos appear.
Good thing I didn’t forget my wallet. It was /w3tcompact/icons/love.gif at first sight when I saw her…a nice KK carry all that actually had all the metal painted! Better add that to my profile, I guess! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
This first photo is representative of the slope I saw that tractor cutting. It is not the same slope. But it is quite close to the one I saw. Scared me…
I don’t know if a tractor traversed this slope or not…but it looks like one might have. I DO KNOW that I did see a tractor on one similar slope…
Bill in Pgh, PA
*photo 1*
This is a second [now third!] attempt at posting this...somehow lost the first one part way through...after hitting the enter key twice, for reasons unknown to me [I mean the reason I hit that key twice.../w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif]
Any way, I will try again…
In a post at the end of this thread here</font color=blue> Rick [Mr. Tiltmeter /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif] suggests:
<font color=blue>Very curious what it measures. How about a picture to post? Then we ask TBN members toguess the degree of slope. No cheating guys. Don't measure the slope in the picture. Just guess. </font color=blue>
I had been /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif by the sight of a tractor mowing the median of I70, right next to the traffic lane on my last run down to TSC. And I believed it would be possible to stop and measure the angle, as I thought the tractor was tilted so far that the operator risked tipping it on its side, which would have dropped the ROPS into the traffic lane, or close to it.
Yesterday I used this as an excuse to head to TSC in Wheeling, West Virginia, which is about an hour from my home. The sky was blue and the weather warm; a great day for a drive. I should have known things would not go smooth, after having to run back to get my wallet shortly after heading up the driveway. At least I had money to turn into something at TSC!
When I was too far down the road to want to turn back again, I realized that I forgot my carpenter’s level and tape measure! Measuring the slope I intended to photograph was now out of the picture./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Now I must tell you that I fully intended to stop on the interstate and to get out and snap a couple. I did stop, but must say…there is not too much of a shoulder on the right side of I70, and practically nothing on the left…my van did its version of shake, rattle and roll as the 18 wheelers whized past…and that immediately convinced me that getting out along the side of that road was something to for someone with less brains than I have to do [if you can find that guy, my wife says it’s not possible...but that’s another story /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif]
So far two strikes against me…so all I can do is try to take some photos as I drive. Aren’t digital cameras wonderful? By the way…I learned it is not really advisable to use the small camera viewfinder to drive by…sort of like a low tech imitation of one of those remote control drones…they must have a bigger screen…buzz strips on the road side do have some value, after all…but I degress…
I did get a couple photos, which could be of some interest here. So I will post them now. Unfortunately, no measurement was possible. So the best we can do is guesstimate what the angles are. Would any of these slopes worry you?
I am pretty sure these photos show slopes that have been mowed by tractors running on them, as compared to a tractor using one of those hydraulic boom mowers.
I’ll attach a couple comments to “replies” where additional photos appear.
Good thing I didn’t forget my wallet. It was /w3tcompact/icons/love.gif at first sight when I saw her…a nice KK carry all that actually had all the metal painted! Better add that to my profile, I guess! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
This first photo is representative of the slope I saw that tractor cutting. It is not the same slope. But it is quite close to the one I saw. Scared me…
I don’t know if a tractor traversed this slope or not…but it looks like one might have. I DO KNOW that I did see a tractor on one similar slope…
Bill in Pgh, PA