MikeOConnor
Silver Member
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2002
- Messages
- 170
- Location
- Western Wisconsin
- Tractor
- Two Power-Trac 1850s (preferred for mowing and grapple-bucket clearing type work on really steep hills). Kubota M680 for snowblowing, grading, bucket.
Hi gang,
This is my first post (usual story, 'been lurking for a long time, very helpful discussions, etc.).
I looked for this before I posted, so apologies if I missed it. But here's a brain teaser. I am wondering how much stability on a hill the gyroscopic action of a rotory (or flail) mower provides.
Seems t'me that I routinely mow on hills that are steeper than the 20-degree consensus (questions about sanity can be posted directly rather than to this thread). The tractor will sometimes want to **slide** down the hill, but never wants to roll.
I'm concocting the theory that this is because I'm dragging a pretty darn heavy gyroscope behind me, and it's resisting the roll motion, but not the slide motion. From there, my college physics memory fails me...
Here are the brain-teaser questions;
1) Is this right?
2) How does a person figure out how many "more degrees" they can add to the tilt meter?
Have at it!
m
This is my first post (usual story, 'been lurking for a long time, very helpful discussions, etc.).
I looked for this before I posted, so apologies if I missed it. But here's a brain teaser. I am wondering how much stability on a hill the gyroscopic action of a rotory (or flail) mower provides.
Seems t'me that I routinely mow on hills that are steeper than the 20-degree consensus (questions about sanity can be posted directly rather than to this thread). The tractor will sometimes want to **slide** down the hill, but never wants to roll.
I'm concocting the theory that this is because I'm dragging a pretty darn heavy gyroscope behind me, and it's resisting the roll motion, but not the slide motion. From there, my college physics memory fails me...
Here are the brain-teaser questions;
1) Is this right?
2) How does a person figure out how many "more degrees" they can add to the tilt meter?
Have at it!
m