Tipsy - what angle?

[SPIKER]

CHUCKO got to it before i DID!. HUMM NOT VERRY ROCKY OH $h|t as it tumbles down the slope! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif hopefully you wouldn't HOLD ON trying to stop it form going! as it would pull you and toss you over the top and down hill in-front of you!

like others said the chuck holes are what makes the PUCKER factor skyrocket. out of 2~3 high pucker factor times ALL of them have been due to an UNEXPECTED problem. 2 of them were woodchuck holes and one was a burried phone pole that caused a sceek bank to collapse on me. (everything rolled into bottom of creek as the poll rolled out from under the front & rear side wheels of the tractor causeing it to SLIDE sideways down the slope into creek. LUCKY for me the roto tiller center harrow tine grabbed into the bank stopping the rear end ! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif it bent the harrow about 2" SIDEWWAYS it is made of 1" by about 3" solid steel!

I straightened it in our 150 ton press.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[DaveInColorado]

Thanks for the thread! I have a tilt meter on my Kubota BX1500 and feel pretty good about slow moving mowing up to 20 degrees or so and occassionally up to 30 degrees if I have an escape route down the hill. Slow is the key! A hill with bumps requires extreme caution. The rollover video is sobering! That doesn't look like a very steep hill.

 

[CTyler]

I probably wouldn't have been thrilled if it did roll. However if it had rolled it wouldn't go anywhere, maybe a foot, cause it would have tipped onto level ground. The slope is only about 15' and the tractor was at the bottom of it.

 

[Zoomie]

Interesting... but I noticed that the 4WD was not engaged, and wonder how that might have affected the test.

 

[jhburke]

I was mowing today around a pond. I have a B7500 with a Ford 515 sickle bar mower on it. It has a seven foot cutter bar. I had about 250 lbs in the front bucket. I was moving real slow on realitive flat bank. I dropped the front wheel into about a 3 " hole. I went up on 3 wheels and swayed there. I stopped and when it settled down I very carefully backed up and changed my path. You don't have to be on a steep slope to get in trouble. JIM

 

[Cottonhawk]

I am also a new owner of tractor. There are many steep slopes on my property need to be mowed. The worst one is a long steep hillside and was named by the previous owner "cardiac hill". I installed the duel tilt meter last week and mowed the cardiac hill. I did it very very slowly and tried to keep it up and down. I got to fifteen degrees on the side ways few times and it was NOT FUN! The up and down was mostly twenty to twenty-five degrees. My tractor is a brand new NHTC40DA. The tilt meter really helped. I also kept my FEL really low almost the whole time I was mowing the hill.

 

[Laminarman]

I have a tilt meter on my TC40DA and was mowing reeaaal slow last week when I had my first pucker. I was on about a 10 degree slope and feeling okay, when all of a sudden I felt the back end sink and left front tire lifting. I had the rotary cutter in the up position going to a new spot to mow. Since that was a very slow event the pucker onset slowly, but man did I grab that seat with my booty. There was a deep rut covered by high grass, and had my downhill tire fallen into it disaster was probably inevitable.

I'm wondering if having a mower (6 foot) down will aid stability while traversing sideways and up/down? Kind of like a wheely on drag cars?

 

[JoelT]

I got used to mowing 20/25deg sidehills no problem on my old TO20 but that pucker factor you guys talk about is hitting at maybe 10deg on my new 4310. Don't know what to do but to put chains on it and see when it'll start to roll. The chassis height, wheelbase and width are nearly identical but I'm sitting a foot or so higher which adds to pucker power. Looking at the tractors mass and center of gravity it seems it would easily sit on maybe 40/45deg, making 20/25deg relatively safe, but.......

Joel

 

[rfawkes]

Yesterday while spraying weeds on a steep slope I did not even feel uncomfortable when the top heavy sprayer plunked over on its side and bent the #**# out of the sprayer hitch. I will go slow and careful from now on.

 

[PineRidge]

Fifteen degrees is the max for me. I have been known to back out if it gets steeper than that. My TC-40D may be able to hold a steeper angle but I'm not finding out in this lifetime. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif