Buying Advice Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight

   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight
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#31  
Can you walk up it? If so it isnt much over 30degrees.

I have walked up it before, but it was rather tough as I was almost crawling up with the grade.
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight
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#32  
I didn't see anywhere if the mowing is up/down or you expect to mow sideways on a 45 degree slope.

I know someone who has rolled a tracked skidsteer on two separate occasions. Both on slopes much less than 45 degrees.

No, up and down, not sideways. Way too steep to mow sideways.
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight #33  
I have walked up it before, but it was rather tough as I was almost crawling up with the grade.
Sounds like what I mow up/down with my bar tired BX1500. I measured it at 30 degrees. Also a steeper area -- est ~33 -- that it wants differential lock to climb unless youre pointed straight up/down
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight #34  
I've thought of buying an Inclinometers for my tractor just for the curiosity factory ...

I know there is a vast difference in how slopes are measured ... Angle, degree, percent ... This is about as steep as my "Butt-O-Meter" would let me go ... And when I got off, I tried ... And couldn't even budge it!!!

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The picture isn't quite level, it's a tad steeper ... The Trees are vertical ...

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Here are a whole bunch of styles ...
Inclinometers | Slope Grade Degree Indicator For Sale | R&B MFG. INC
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight #35  
I've thought of buying an Inclinometers for my tractor just for the curiosity factory ...

I know there is a vast difference in how slopes are measured ... Angle, degree, percent ... This is about as steep as my "Butt-O-Meter" would let me go ... And when I got off, I tried ... And couldn't even budge it!!!

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The picture isn't quite level, it's a tad steeper ... The Trees are vertical ...

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Here are a whole bunch of styles ...
Inclinometers | Slope Grade Degree Indicator For Sale | R&B MFG. INC
It’s stable until a wheel drops into a hole.
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight #36  
I've thought of buying an Inclinometers for my tractor just for the curiosity factory ...

I know there is a vast difference in how slopes are measured ... Angle, degree, percent ... This is about as steep as my "Butt-O-Meter" would let me go ... And when I got off, I tried ... And couldn't even budge it!!!

View attachment 4263223

The picture isn't quite level, it's a tad steeper ... The Trees are vertical ...

View attachment 4263224

Here are a whole bunch of styles ...
Inclinometers | Slope Grade Degree Indicator For Sale | R&B MFG. INC
From that page, most of them don't go to 45 degrees... but one in the middle is U-shaped, and should work up to 90 degrees... just in case you need it.

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There are also digital inclinometers that you can use. I think even a cell phone app. Just bring a 2x4 to smooth out the bumps in the slope and measure with your phone.

Or for percent slope, it is just rise over run. Bring your level. One end on uphill part of the slope, measure from the other end down to the slope. Then rise over run and you get the percent slope.
 
   / Friend needs to replace a Kioti CK30 due to rotary cutter "bush hog" weight #37  
My slope will be more or less perfect. I peak at about 45°. I have a side slope that is closer to 20°. There is a short 10' or so tall bank that goes the whole length, but there appears to be an ancient road cut that goes down over that bank to a narrow level area.

So I should be able to make a path to plunge down the 45° slope. Level out at the bottom. Hang a left, 100 yards, and up the old road cut to a level spot at the bottom of that side slope. Then back up to the top to try again.

Unfortunately everything seems like a compound angle, but that may simply be a perception based on apparent edges that I can observe. So it will take a little practice to find that perfect straight down slope.

Bonneville Power cut down some Maple trees up to about 8" in diameter, and left them in the middle of the blackberry patch, so they will be fun to mow.
 

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