ddl
Gold Member
Harv
I agree that you must feel safe when doing anything on your tractor. The wise say if it does not feel safe for you it is not safe. Knowing your land has a lot to do with knowing the limits of your tractor and of you. The only problem I have is putting too much faith in a add on meter as a way to indict safe slopes, if there is any safe slopes. If you think a slope is too steep, why would you drive your tractor on it to read the meter. I would mount the meter on a long 2X4 and lay it on the slope to see if it is too steep. A 2X4 is cheaper than a tractor. On response was stating about doing tipping test to find angle of tip over. You can by using a little physics determine the point of tip over by calculating the angle in which the gforce is greater than the normal force, but again I see acceralection a bigger problem than the gforce being larger than the normal force.
Dan L
I agree that you must feel safe when doing anything on your tractor. The wise say if it does not feel safe for you it is not safe. Knowing your land has a lot to do with knowing the limits of your tractor and of you. The only problem I have is putting too much faith in a add on meter as a way to indict safe slopes, if there is any safe slopes. If you think a slope is too steep, why would you drive your tractor on it to read the meter. I would mount the meter on a long 2X4 and lay it on the slope to see if it is too steep. A 2X4 is cheaper than a tractor. On response was stating about doing tipping test to find angle of tip over. You can by using a little physics determine the point of tip over by calculating the angle in which the gforce is greater than the normal force, but again I see acceralection a bigger problem than the gforce being larger than the normal force.
Dan L