Help! My front yard is kicking my butt! Bushhogging uphill

[JRobyn]

From what I've read on tractorbynet I think the OP's largest improvement would come from using R3 tires. Yes R4 look tougher and they are, but for all around traction I think they offer about the best compromise. It would be interesting to try a set of R3's pulling FTG-05's mower and see if there is a difference.

No doubt in my mind that R1s (or even R3s) would be the ideal solution IF cost was no object! I bet that FTG would gladly try some and that they would work beautifully on his hilly, slippy terrain if you guys would just get together and buy him a set (along with the matching fronts and all 4 rims), and pay to have them shipped to him, filled and installed!

Sometimes, one is forced to work with what one has, making that work out the best possible, even if it is NOT perfect. I think that FTG has done exactly that. JMHO.

- Jay

 

[SPYDERLK]

Dont think **** need em in the long run. As soon he gets it mowed once, and then is not having to get traction on a thick mat of laid down stalks, therell be no more problem.

 

[FTG-05]

Dont think **** need em in the long run. As soon he gets it mowed once, and then is not having to get traction on a thick mat of laid down stalks, therell be no more problem.

Amen to that!

I cut down a particularly thick stand of those purple-stalked bush plants (I'm not sure if they're polk plants, I'll have to get a pic of them) that was very slight slope yesterday. After cutting it down once, I made another pass and I was slipping and sliding at pretty slow speeds. Have you guys ever drifted your tractors? I was yesterday!

Thanks,

 

[k0ua]

See if these images are what you are mowing down"

https://www.google.com/search?q=pol...mxyASoloLgDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=775

 

[SPYDERLK]

Iv drifted the JD when I used to bushog with it at 7 or 8 MPH. It was pretty good traction conditions - R1s on fresh cut turf - a wide U turn uphill on a ~ 5 degree slope. It was a solid side creep front and back. Stable on its 3 wheels owing to wide set rears, smooth terrain and the low counterweight of the BH.
larry

 

[FTG-05]

See if these images are what you are mowing down"

https://www.google.com/search?q=pol...mxyASoloLgDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=775

Yea, it does look like pokeweed. We certainly have enough of it around here!

 

[FTG-05]

Here's another pic of the hill that I took this morning about 5 minutes after I got up.

This was taken from our sun room inside our house.

My property line is down at the bottom of the hill where you can see the line of cedars. This was bushhogged a couple months ago. This is the less steep part of the hill due to a slightly lower elevation high point plus no real stairsteps like the other parts of the hill.

 

[mikehaugen]

Here's another pic of the hill that I took this morning about 5 minutes after I got up.

This was taken from our sun room inside our house.

My property line is down at the bottom of the hill where you can see the line of cedars. This was bushhogged a couple months ago. This is the less steep part of the hill due to a slightly lower elevation high point plus no real stairsteps like the other parts of the hill.

That's hideous... you should call a local developer and get a strip mall and wal-mart built there right away!

 

[jenkinsph]

That's hideous... you should call a local developer and get a strip mall and wal-mart built there right away!

Yeah, and run the deer off too.

 

[FTG-05]

Yeah, and run the deer off too.

My bad! I didn't know there was a deer there!

About 10 minutes later, there were five turkey's between my shop and the pole barn/field. I didn't take a pic since it didn't have anything to do with bushhogging the hill though.

On the other hand, it's the first time I've seen turkey's out since mid-May. I *assume* they've been out in the forests/woods having their babies; don't know. But it was good seeing them again.

Thanks,

Oh, and I think developers are on the endangered ****@#$!### list around here; not sure I could get one to put in a walmart or subdivision; in fact, I'm not sure anyone around here knows what a subdivision is....

But I digress...

Thanks,