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Harv
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- Kubota L2500DT Standard Transmission
<font color=blue>do you think a 4 in 1 bucket would have helped change the factors enough where this might not have happened?</font color=blue>
Richard -
Certainly the log wouldn't have rolled back on me, but I bet I could find other ways to get into trouble. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif BTW - It's probably been answered in the 4-in-1 threads, but how much heavier are those buckets (i.e. how much lifting power would I be giving up)?
<font color=blue>could you have just plowed the first offending tree over by pushing with the bucket?</font color=blue>
I did that to some similarly-sized trees and too many were just breaking off, leaving me with a stump to deal with. I "thought" I could do a more complete job my yanking it out, roots and all.
DDL -
It's a little hazy in my mind, but I believe my tiltmeter said something like, "Holy Sh__!!! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
You are absolutely right -- a tiltmeter doesn't help when the situation arises so quickly (hmmmm -- meter says 90 degrees. Crap! /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif). My tiltmeters have proven most valuable when I'm entering "uncharted" territory, which, with 42 back-woods kind of hilly acres, happens fairly often. The usual scenario is that as I ease into a foreign slope or tilt area I watch the tiltmeter carefully to sort of "feel out" the terrain. If I get too close to 15 degrees sideways, or 20 degrees front-to-back, I back out and look for an alternative route.
Occassionaly, I'm caught by surprise when the general terrain looks okay but I hit a contour that tips me to that lump-in-the-throat angle I'm sure most of you have experienced. Thankfully tractors stop rather quickly when you take your foot off the gas. At this point I look at the meters to see if I should proceed or back up. More often than not it turns out to be around 10 degrees, but there's something about going from zero to 10 that accelerates one's pulse (anybody else ever notice that?).
My biggest scares, other than the ones I just confessed to in my last post, are when I'm backing up, usually too fast, and run over a rock with one rear wheel. That changes your tilt real fast. One time I simultaneously climbed a rock on one side just as the other wheel found a rut. Zero to 15 degrees in a split second can really take its toll on your underwear. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif One of these days I'm afraid I'm going to hit one of those situations when I'm already on a slope, after which I will probably take some real interesting pictures for this board. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Richard -
Certainly the log wouldn't have rolled back on me, but I bet I could find other ways to get into trouble. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif BTW - It's probably been answered in the 4-in-1 threads, but how much heavier are those buckets (i.e. how much lifting power would I be giving up)?
<font color=blue>could you have just plowed the first offending tree over by pushing with the bucket?</font color=blue>
I did that to some similarly-sized trees and too many were just breaking off, leaving me with a stump to deal with. I "thought" I could do a more complete job my yanking it out, roots and all.
DDL -
It's a little hazy in my mind, but I believe my tiltmeter said something like, "Holy Sh__!!! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
You are absolutely right -- a tiltmeter doesn't help when the situation arises so quickly (hmmmm -- meter says 90 degrees. Crap! /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif). My tiltmeters have proven most valuable when I'm entering "uncharted" territory, which, with 42 back-woods kind of hilly acres, happens fairly often. The usual scenario is that as I ease into a foreign slope or tilt area I watch the tiltmeter carefully to sort of "feel out" the terrain. If I get too close to 15 degrees sideways, or 20 degrees front-to-back, I back out and look for an alternative route.
Occassionaly, I'm caught by surprise when the general terrain looks okay but I hit a contour that tips me to that lump-in-the-throat angle I'm sure most of you have experienced. Thankfully tractors stop rather quickly when you take your foot off the gas. At this point I look at the meters to see if I should proceed or back up. More often than not it turns out to be around 10 degrees, but there's something about going from zero to 10 that accelerates one's pulse (anybody else ever notice that?).
My biggest scares, other than the ones I just confessed to in my last post, are when I'm backing up, usually too fast, and run over a rock with one rear wheel. That changes your tilt real fast. One time I simultaneously climbed a rock on one side just as the other wheel found a rut. Zero to 15 degrees in a split second can really take its toll on your underwear. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif One of these days I'm afraid I'm going to hit one of those situations when I'm already on a slope, after which I will probably take some real interesting pictures for this board. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
