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daugen
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I really appreciate all the good advice. Always good to stay within one's personal comfort level and the capabilities of the equipment, assuming one really knows the latter. And yes, I will seriously consider loading the tires.
This is a 2wd light tractor with a ROPS, it is what it is. Perhaps if I add a fabric sunshade to the top it will help protect me? Just kidding...
I spent most of my life in different parts of the insurance business, including owning a small agency in my home town for many years, the only one in a once semi-rural area. And for a good bit of that time I was a first out responder with the volunteer fire company, which was a block from our office. My partner would drive one day and I would be on the back step (when it was allowed back then) and the next time I'd drive. And we would see the results of people getting in some pretty bad situations, like what I mentioned in the beginning of this post about this wonderful boy who died with a Farmall steering wheel in his chest.
This stuff can happen so fast....
Yes, I am nervous on slopes, but I hope safely nervous. When I was a going through fire training, I had to climb a three story building ladder with full gear on, swing over on to the roof, and keep climbing up. I hate heights, don't like to fly, etc, etc. You could have heard my knees knock a mile away that day, and every part of me was off the pucker chart. Yet it never bothered me entering a burning house, with flaming stuff falling on my head, pitch black, looking for the tell tale glow of the fire origin while crawling on one's knees. Didn't bother me a bit. But get me up high on a ladder, or in this case, heeled way over on a slope, well, this is just not my comfort area. So I work around it, and will use my other mower.
And I will try NOT to turn at the top of the hill, good advice here.
Think twice, mow once. And once I "learn" the hill, this will be just a memory. Thanks guys.
This is a 2wd light tractor with a ROPS, it is what it is. Perhaps if I add a fabric sunshade to the top it will help protect me? Just kidding...
I spent most of my life in different parts of the insurance business, including owning a small agency in my home town for many years, the only one in a once semi-rural area. And for a good bit of that time I was a first out responder with the volunteer fire company, which was a block from our office. My partner would drive one day and I would be on the back step (when it was allowed back then) and the next time I'd drive. And we would see the results of people getting in some pretty bad situations, like what I mentioned in the beginning of this post about this wonderful boy who died with a Farmall steering wheel in his chest.
This stuff can happen so fast....
Yes, I am nervous on slopes, but I hope safely nervous. When I was a going through fire training, I had to climb a three story building ladder with full gear on, swing over on to the roof, and keep climbing up. I hate heights, don't like to fly, etc, etc. You could have heard my knees knock a mile away that day, and every part of me was off the pucker chart. Yet it never bothered me entering a burning house, with flaming stuff falling on my head, pitch black, looking for the tell tale glow of the fire origin while crawling on one's knees. Didn't bother me a bit. But get me up high on a ladder, or in this case, heeled way over on a slope, well, this is just not my comfort area. So I work around it, and will use my other mower.
And I will try NOT to turn at the top of the hill, good advice here.
Think twice, mow once. And once I "learn" the hill, this will be just a memory. Thanks guys.
