thartsell
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I live on the side of a mountain. I fluid filled my tires. Solid as a rock.
My Tractor Seems Unstable
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I live on the side of a mountain. I fluid filled my tires. Solid as a rock.
Henro
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Hi,
I have been reading this thread from the beginning. The title caught my attention. I keep thinking Hey! That is me!
I have two tractors. The smaller Kubota BX2200 has all four tires foam filled, and with the mower deck hanging under it is rock solid on any side slope I want to take it on. The worry is me falling off the tractor if my seat belt is not on...
My larger tractor is a 30 HP Kubota B2910. It scares me a lot on side slopes. Big time. For a reason.
I posted some photos a few years ago. I was box blading on a very slight slope, but built up a surface that was maybe a foot and a half higher than what was next to it. I did not notice for whatever reason, and got too close to the edge and the tractor slid down and stopped suddenly at the bottom. Then it VERY slowly proceeded to lay on its side. Big time slow motion, but it happened.
This was the result:
The second picture shows the tractor after I righted it using a chain block tied to a tree. Not really that steep of a slope.
The third picture shows the general area. Nothing exciting to see really.
My rear tires are liquid filled about 75% and the fronts are foam filled.
Since then, on the larger tractor, I keep amazing myself at how different I feel between the two tractors. I pucker on the slightest side slope on the larger one, and storm across anything on the smaller one.
At the end of the day, I think feeling that your tractor is unstable is a healthy thing. Might just keep you from tipping over. Even in slow motion once is enough!
Edit: forgot to add: Could the rear tire be slipping on the rim, making it look like the wheel was stopping? I have heard of this happening in the past with tubeless tires... Just a thought...
Bill
CobyRupert
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Bill, do you think if you’d kept forward motion as you were sliding sideways that you wouldn’t have tipped over when it suddenly stopped sliding?
Henro
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Coby...do not know.
Was moving very slowly...I suppose if I had accelerated and turned to the right I might have recovered. But can not claim to be that fast of a thinker! Might not have helped anyway. Just do not know.
However, I do now know it is better to keep all four wheels on the ground!
Bill
Was moving very slowly...I suppose if I had accelerated and turned to the right I might have recovered. But can not claim to be that fast of a thinker! Might not have helped anyway. Just do not know.
However, I do now know it is better to keep all four wheels on the ground!
Bill
Great example.
Doesn't take much of a difference in Cg at all to change the outcome. (For a long time, no manufacturer would put a glass roof in an SUV - suspensions needed to improve and lower before that was done).
In a "shorter" tractor, if you are tilted 30Deg off of vertical, it doesn't seem to register mentally to the same extent as on a taller tractor. Our brains auto-correlating risk, to some extent, but also worth remembering the perception aspect..... smaller tractors may be just better at seducing us.....
Rgds, D.
52wej
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Gene, let me take a couple of pictures and copy some pages from my manuals. You have to look at more than just the drain plug which is under the rear transaxle. W Jones
52wej
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Please take a look at the attached photo. To the left is a screen under a cover that needs to be taken out by unbolting three bolts. In the center is the drain plug that has yellow paint on it. To the top right you will see the blue hydraulic filter that needs to be replaced. Be aware that there are between 8 and 10 gallons of fluid in the transaxle. Hope this helps. W Jones
