Question on tipping tractor over

[Walkin Horse]

In the last 7 years smart phones have become available. On my iPhone if it's held rite there is a horizontal level that reads degrees. Sometimes I will use it to check my angle at certain places on my farm. 12 or 13 degrees feels iffy on a sideways roll. The tractor stays stable it just feels iffy.

 

[Hermio]

Wasn't on this forum 7 years ago.

 

[Fawken]

Old thread, but here's my two confessions: Rolled (not tipped) mine when it was about 4 years old, 1987 ? maybe. It didn't have a loader then, but the tires were not filled either and I was on the side of a pond dam. Second time nearly tipped it but didn't was when lifting that 55 gallon barrel of chemicals in my avatar. My front left tire was low and didn't realize it till I came out of the trailer with that pallet. When I lowered the box blade the right rear wheel came off the ground. Scared me half to death. Raised the box blade, aired the tire, then took that picture as a reminder to self to check the front tires before doing heavy lifting.

 

[McREBEL]

You missed the point obviously. Seven years later he doesn't need to be corrected, especially when everyone on this forum knew exactly what he meant then and now. There are a number of grammatical errors in that post and grammatical errors all over this forum for that matter. Feel free to clean it all up. You'll make a lot of friends.

 

[SPYDERLK]

You missed the point obviously. Seven years later he doesn't need to be corrected, especially when everyone on this forum knew exactly what he meant then and now. There are a number of grammatical errors in that post and grammatical errors all over this forum for that matter. Feel free to clean it all up. You'll make a lot of friends.

I guess you hate it when somebody alerts you your fly is open.

 

[McREBEL]

I guess you hate it when somebody alerts you your fly is open.

It wasn't my fly. Maybe you and hermio can team up to check everyone's fly. :shocked:

 

[Hermio]

It is a common error that I am seeing with greater and greater frequency. Bad grammar spreads as a virus. My "doctor's prescription" was directed at current readers who may have fallen into this habit. Don't get me started on the rampant misuse of "like"!

 

[murphy1244]

Must be the same error like when people post on an old thread with nonsense.

 

[Hermio]

Old thread, but here's my two confessions: Rolled (not tipped) mine when it was about 4 years old, 1987 ? maybe. It didn't have a loader then, but the tires were not filled either and I was on the side of a pond dam. Second time nearly tipped it but didn't was when lifting that 55 gallon barrel of chemicals in my avatar. My front left tire was low and didn't realize it till I came out of the trailer with that pallet. When I lowered the box blade the right rear wheel came off the ground. Scared me half to death. Raised the box blade, aired the tire, then took that picture as a reminder to self to check the front tires before doing heavy lifting.

Yikes! I have had only one close call, but that makes me pretty paranoid about it. It was when I had a heavy load in my loader, traversing a fairly steep hill. I kept the loader pretty low, but the tractor tipped a bit, with one of the rear wheels coming off the ground. It stopped when the front axle ran out of pivot. I lowered the bucket to the ground and reduced the weight in it, and drove out leaning uphill with my body. This was on my little Kubota B7100 HST, which weighed about 2000# with me on it, so my body weight made a difference. On my Mahindra 5035, at 10,000 lb with FEL and an 8' brush cutter, my body weight won't matter very much.

 

[Hermio]

Must be the same error like when people post on an old thread with nonsense.

I wouldn't know. I never post nonsense.