Operating on hilly ground. You level land guys are wimps!!

[sweep]

My neighbor cuts this going up and down. Steeper than the 2d photo shows.
I live in Appalacian hill country and I have seen guys mow and BALE hills steeper than this.

I'm not making this up. One guy bales round bales and they all roll down to the bottom of the hill as they come out of the baler.

Appalacian hill country..gotta love it.

 

[nvpliers]

Just south of you in hill country as well. Not quite that steep as the pic, but I got some side slope where I need to hold my mouth just right to bush hog.

Along some of the highways here, the County, using big John Deeres and some country boys mow SIDEWAYS on slopes so steep, I had to pull over my truck and watch, baffled how them old boys don't tip!!

 

[orezok]

I'm no wimp, I work the steepest slope in my 26 acres which is almost 4% :ashamed::ashamed:

 

[RoyJackson]

Since the trees in the background (upper right of the pic) are on a bit of an angle (5 degrees or a bit more), I'd say the camera was held on an angle too. This would make that slope look worse then it actually is.

Anyway, guys whose land is flat and level aren't wimps...just a bit more fortunate then those who live on sloped land.

 

[sweep]

Along some of the highways here, the County, using big John Deeres and some country boys mow SIDEWAYS on slopes so steep, I had to pull over my truck and watch, baffled how them old boys don't tip!!

I just saw that the other day. An ODOT tractor was mowing a hill so steep it was sliding sideways downhill in the wet grass-it had just rained earlier. I know the feeling, I just slowed down and was in awe.

 

[TripleR]

I can sure identify with that, I grew up farming flat land and I don't know if I will ever get used to running a tractor on our hill farms. We have some pretty steep hills. I don't know if they are that bad, but a round bale sure wouldn't last long on them. Thankfully our hills while steep aren't that long, so they won't roll far.

 

[sweep]

Since the trees in the background (upper right of the pic) are on a bit of an angle (5 degrees or a bit more), I'd say the camera was held on an angle too. This would make that slope look worse then it actually is.

Anyway, guys whose land is flat and level aren't wimps...just a bit more fortunate then those who live on sloped land.

Umm no. The camera is level. Look at the trees right below the fence. Straight up and down.

Another pic.

 

[RoyJackson]

Umm no. The camera is level. Look at the trees right below the fence. Straight up and down.

I did...
Even on steep ground, trees grown pretty close to vertical...not perpendicular to the immediate topography. Most of those trees are perpendicular rather then vertical.
People do our best to stand vertically as well...tough to take a picture on a slope though since there's no frame of reference other then the trees (fence is too far away).
Still a healthy slope though...I'd estimate it's about 10-12 degrees near the top and gets a bit steeper (15-18 degrees) down lower. Going up and down might not be bad, but I wouldn't want to traverse across it.

 

[sweep]

I did...
Even on steep ground, trees grown pretty close to vertical...not perpendicular to the immediate topography. Most of those trees are perpendicular rather then vertical.
People do our best to stand vertically as well...tough to take a picture on a slope though since there's no frame of reference other then the trees (fence is too far away).
Still a healthy slope though...I'd estimate it's about 10-12 degrees.

The hill is actually steeper than it appears in the pic. Believe what you want.

 

[TripleR]

It really is hard to tell how steep a hill really is by a picture, I have taken pictures of hills that scared the snot out of me and upon looking at the picture, it didn't seem so steep.

The second picture doesn't look at steep as the first. I mow cross wise on hills that look like the second on our M8540, but like I said, pictures can be deceiving.