scootr
Elite Member
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2022
- Messages
- 4,096
- Location
- Temecula California
- Tractor
- Kubota MX5200 HST, 773 Bobcat, Cat forklift
Maybe the govt could just make your tractor shut off it gets on a 12º slope. Whould you be happy then?
I was using heavy equipment for paying my tuition and was driving a tractor when I was sent over to mow a steep hill near a school in the morning. Well, there was heavy dew so it was very wet and I slid down all the way to the bottom, over and over and I wonder how they managed to mow such a hill but I got it done. Well the next morning the assistant asked who had mowed that hill and when I raised my hand he went into a long "lesson" on the dangers of rollovers and how lucky I wasnt killed, and chewed out the one who sent me as he said you can never mow a hill when its wet or early morning, so my first lesson in tractoring..
Driving over something that tips the tractor, something unseen, like an animal hole, makes any tilt-o-meter useless. Because that 15deg goes to 25 in a split second. I had a situation the other day. Out in the pasture, knee high grass, ran over a hole, oh how nice, who put that pos there. 40yrs earlier there was an old oak, now a decayed stump, and divot from the blow over. The memory of that is so long gone. It looks like a grassy field, the same as it has for decades. Some of this stuff catches a guy off guard, and there you go. Drive slow and deliberate, situational awareness, stay vigilant and don't let your gaurd down.