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

[North Country]

I'm gonna guess sweep's hill is also about 22 degrees - the picture wasn't taken perpendicular to the slope, so trying to measure directly off a 2D pic is very close to useless.

 

[RoyJackson]

I'm gonna guess sweep's hill is also about 22 degrees - the picture wasn't taken perpendicular to the slope, so trying to measure directly off a 2D pic is very close to useless.

Yep...an educated guess at best. Really depends on what can be used as a point of reference. I picked the trees, but as far as I know, they might be the first trees ever to grow crooked.

 

[North Country]

I picked my eyeballs.

I have a few trees that aren't straight. The ground sometimes slides on top of the bedrock around here - usually very slowly, sometimes a little too fast. Parts of my orchard moved 4 ft this winter/spring over a period of 4-5 months.

Also, the lower hill father to the left is steeper than the part to the right.

 

[LD1]

Using the buildings in the background as reference, my estimate is 20 to 22 degrees. Pretty steep...

I.d say 22 is about right too.

Judging from the buildings, it appears that the top of the hill is about 50' away, and the bottom (using the building as rreference) drops off by 20'.

-Tan(20/50)= 22 degrees :thumbsup:

That is a 40% slope :thumbsup:

 

[5030]

In metro Detroit they mow the banks of the e-ways (they do mow them ocassionally.....:laughing with mowers that the operator platform/powertrain is on gimbals so it rotates to level no matter what the degree of slope is. I've seen them mowing on what appears to be a 45 degree slope with no problem. Still, not for me.

 

[mooseracing]

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.

Yep, I pretty much rode the left wheel brake when mowing for the county on some of the ROW is wet areas. The banks were very steep and the front tires were useless.

There was a few times I had to be pulled back up and I just held the wheel brake down and made the tractor pivot as they didn't tip as much then compared to being pulled straight out.

 

[slowzuki]

I find sidehilling easy to judge when its too steep, the uphill tire starts spinning or the tractor starts sliding sideways downhill.

Up and down doesn't bother me the same, once you do it for a bit you don't notice. I do hate spinning out in 2wd or hooking one corner of the bushhog on something mowing steep up down, the front end turns pretty quickly.

 

[Jay4200]

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.

Good eye. That's an old skier's trick.

JayC

 

[LBrown59]

Yeah but we're living wimps.

 

[Ken Pike]

Look at the fence posts & the weeds in the foreground, they look perpendicular (straight up & down) to me.