Tilt Meter

[MapleLeafFarmer]

What side angle is when I need to start to panic?

and therein lay the $64,000 question.

notice gauge makers never give recommendations when enough is enough/ cause so many variables like type of tyres, what the ground surface is, moisture content of surface, center of gravity height, etc....

so only my individual opinion but thanks for the gauge, makes little or no value to me as to many variables at play to trust a "dumb" single variable gauge.

Cheers

 

[RayIN]

What side angle is when I need to start to panic?

When the upper side drive tire begins to lose traction.

 

[Happy in NC]

I still feel like I would like to have one...not because I really need it, but because I would like to have something to calibrate my pucker factor with.

That is my feeling too.
If I feel that center of gravity shift the FEL goes down and I back out. I am usually quite cautious as my land is pretty hilly.
My 2 cents

 

[steve tym]

My pucker factor was rearing its ugly head, so I bought a tilt meter. I thought I was being a baby, tilt meter shows about 15 degrees. IF you can find anybody to throw a number out, it's about 20 degrees. I was closer than I thought.

 

[EddieWalker]

This was before I widened my wheels to their maximum width. Easily the most terrifying angle that I've been at with my tractor.

I got too close to the ditch that comes from my culvert and my tires slide down into it. I hit the clutch and brakes at the same time, and watched the front tire settle back down to the ground. Seeing it in the air isn't something I ever want to see again.

What angle is this? I don't have a clue. The angle of the camera makes it look worse, but it was really scary and that's why I think a tilt meter might be nice to have.

 

[2manyrocks]

This was before I widened my wheels to their maximum width. Easily the most terrifying angle that I've been at with my tractor.

I got too close to the ditch that comes from my culvert and my tires slide down into it. I hit the clutch and brakes at the same time, and watched the front tire settle back down to the ground. Seeing it in the air isn't something I ever want to see again.

What angle is this? I don't have a clue. The angle of the camera makes it look worse, but it was really scary and that's why I think a tilt meter might be nice to have.

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You could roughly find the angle by using one of the trees in the background as the vertical compared to the tilt of the rear tire. I wouldn’t want to have been in the operators seat. Glad you weren’t hurt.

 

[Carl_NH]

Eddie, I'd say that's about 25* - definitely beyond my comfort zone!

I have had the tiltmeter since 2003 and don't often need it - my pucker factor is about 15-17* and mostly by the "seat of the pants" method, e.g. when it feels too steep I'm focused on getting out safely than looking at the tiltmeter.

 

[sreeb]

On sale through Sunday with a 30% off coupon.

https://www.harborfreight.com/dial-gauge-angle-finder-34214.html

 

[flyerdan]

A cheap and easy tilt meter is a level app for your phone, with a spare case mounted somewhere, or a strip of velcro on your case to the dash if you don't want to swap it all the time. There might even be an actual app for that, haven't looked.

Edit: I did take a look and there are in fact off-road inclinometer apps.

 

[bigtiller]

With my "pucker factor" spots I gave up mowing them. I'm not taking a chance to break things any more.

I use 2-4D to keep the weeds down and trying to maintain a nice stand of brome grass.

I do the same thing over the septic tank and distribution box.