Sedgewood
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If I may I would like to continue this discussion from the closed thread "Power Trac PT425"
<font color=green>Reds said: I also noticed that the front half of the tractor seems to be sliding sideways (dowhill) as i move across the hill. I'm not sure why.</font color=green>
<font color=green> MossRoad responded: That is an interesting comment. I've noticed that on sideslopes where I lose traction due to snow or wet grass, the machine tends to want to crab across the hill, with the front wheels pointed slightly up hill and the rears silghtly downhill. The more I want to correct it by steering uphill, since the unit articulates in the middle, actually agravates the situation.</font color=green>
This may be a bit of an aside but I've found the 1845 tends to crab in really muddy going and attribute it to the sort of positraction front & rear effect created by the hydraulics. I once had a Ford Bronco that I ordered with positraction front & rear. You couldn't stick it but then again you never knew just where you'd end up because of the crabbing and the 1845 feels similar when all 4 wheels are slipping & gripping.
<font color=green>Just how steep is this slope? Here's a handy diagram to help figure it out.</font color=green>
You describe a method for determining PERCENT slope, which is the way I've always seen road grades etc expressed. Throughout the threads here at TBN and on the Power Trac literature slopes are expressed in DEGREES, which has confused me a bit.
<font color=green>Reds said: I also noticed that the front half of the tractor seems to be sliding sideways (dowhill) as i move across the hill. I'm not sure why.</font color=green>
<font color=green> MossRoad responded: That is an interesting comment. I've noticed that on sideslopes where I lose traction due to snow or wet grass, the machine tends to want to crab across the hill, with the front wheels pointed slightly up hill and the rears silghtly downhill. The more I want to correct it by steering uphill, since the unit articulates in the middle, actually agravates the situation.</font color=green>
This may be a bit of an aside but I've found the 1845 tends to crab in really muddy going and attribute it to the sort of positraction front & rear effect created by the hydraulics. I once had a Ford Bronco that I ordered with positraction front & rear. You couldn't stick it but then again you never knew just where you'd end up because of the crabbing and the 1845 feels similar when all 4 wheels are slipping & gripping.
<font color=green>Just how steep is this slope? Here's a handy diagram to help figure it out.</font color=green>
You describe a method for determining PERCENT slope, which is the way I've always seen road grades etc expressed. Throughout the threads here at TBN and on the Power Trac literature slopes are expressed in DEGREES, which has confused me a bit.