Dr_Zinj
Veteran Member
Just my opinions. Your mileage may vary.
1. You "should not" be driving up a 30 to 40 degree slope, period. There really is no safe suggestion for pulling loads under that condition. The only thing that should be used on a slope that steep is a fully tracked piece of equipment like a dozer. And even then only straight up or down the hill, never sideways. There's a couple of good threads in these forums about hazardous slope incidents.
2. A lawn and garden tractor weighing 500 to 1000 pounds, 15 to 20 hp should be able to handle plowing if the maximum is only a 2 ft high pile at the end of your drive.
3. See above. Except if you're doing sidewalks, you may have some narrow vehicle issues. I've never seen a narrow model John Deerer. I know that Kubota makes a narrow tractor model.
4. If you're talking PTO driven implements, you've pretty much moved ou tof the lawn and garden range and into the SCUT and CUT range.
1. You "should not" be driving up a 30 to 40 degree slope, period. There really is no safe suggestion for pulling loads under that condition. The only thing that should be used on a slope that steep is a fully tracked piece of equipment like a dozer. And even then only straight up or down the hill, never sideways. There's a couple of good threads in these forums about hazardous slope incidents.
2. A lawn and garden tractor weighing 500 to 1000 pounds, 15 to 20 hp should be able to handle plowing if the maximum is only a 2 ft high pile at the end of your drive.
3. See above. Except if you're doing sidewalks, you may have some narrow vehicle issues. I've never seen a narrow model John Deerer. I know that Kubota makes a narrow tractor model.
4. If you're talking PTO driven implements, you've pretty much moved ou tof the lawn and garden range and into the SCUT and CUT range.