How steep can you climb?

[woodlandfarms]

Show off!

My little brother to your's can only go up, down and across 25 degrees due to the limits of the Kohler engine's oiling system.

Well..... My tractor can. Personally I cannot... gets way to scary.. 25 degrees is way scary...

And as for going nose first off a 45, that takes some big eggs. Like the streets of San Francisco. You have no clue what the next step is...

 

[some zilch]

i go up and down stuff that if i didnt have my seatbelt on, i would actually fall out of the seat

 

[Thomas]

Low range..4x4.. bucket low to the ground..backing up..until rear tire spins or my gut feeling say enough.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Get four legged critters like goats, llamas, alpacas, cows or horses in that pecking order and let them do the hard work.

 

[tommcintire]

When I worked on the town crew in college, we maintained a slope that was about 40 degrees. We used to just weedwhack it with heavy duty weedwhackers. Didn't really take that long. 5 of us could do about 1/2 an acre in under an hour.

Looking at your pics, you probably can hit the shallower part with a tractor with ease (guessing) and then use a weedwhacker for the "scary part". If you keep up with it (less than 1 foot grass) it really isn't that bad.

 

[MossRoad]

Matt400,
Have you considered planting a ground cover on the steepest parts so you will not have to mow it?

 

[TripleR]

Like Roy Jackson, I mow slopes that steep and worse. Some I drive up and down when there is a flat place on top to turn around and if not will just mow on a zig-zag. In some areas, I have to back up and where there is an abrupt transition, you may have to lift it a litte and then catch it on the way back down. I can do this with my 2660 with FEL and 48" rotary cutter or MMM. My 2305 will do the same.

I was raised flat land farming and getting use to my hill farms took some getting use to. My father in law rolled lawn mowers a few times, but we have never had problems with a SCUT, CUT or full size tractor; surprising what these will do.

 

[RoyJackson]

Matt400,
Have you considered planting a ground cover on the steepest parts so you will not have to mow it?

And that is the best advice yet!!!

 

[dex3361]

Here are a few pics of one of the trails I mow(I will refrain from calling it a road). It starts out going up and the rise is
The first is a view from my shop toward the trail.
The second is a view from the last point of the trail where you can see the house.
The 3rd is a view up the next rise of the trail.
The 4th is a view up the last rise to the ridge.
The rise in elevation is about 400' in elevation.

 

[Opti-Mist]

Older gas tractors, Ford at least, were limited to about 17 degrees on sideslope courtesy of the carburetor float.