Slope...what is safe?? Anyone here ever roll over?

[goeduck]

Why are people cutting grass on a steep slope do you all hate tall grass that much?

Around here if you do not keep grass mowed you get stuff growing there besides grass. Around here it usually starts with Himalayan blackberry which can have 1 inch canes 30 feet long and grow to 2 stories high. A pain to remove. Other parts of the country have their particular invasives. If it was just grass most could live with that.

 

[goeduck]

I thought the world steepest hill would have resulted in some kind of really cool bike pile up.

What do you call a pile of bicyclists?

 

[Evets Tsorf]

I don’t know, stationary peloton, pilo-tin?

We have talked about steep slopes and tall grass, still looking for thoughts on TRACTORs on slopes and brush hogging.

 

[RickB]

I don’t know, stationary peloton, pilo-tin?

We have talked about steep slopes and tall grass, still looking for thoughts on TRACTORs on slopes and brush hogging.

I am in favor of that.

 

[MossRoad]

Around here if you do not keep grass mowed you get stuff growing there besides grass. Around here it usually starts with Himalayan blackberry which can have 1 inch canes 30 feet long and grow to 2 stories high. A pain to remove. Other parts of the country have their particular invasives. If it was just grass most could live with that.

A few years ago I kept listening to people whining about blackberries. Big deal. We have blackberries, too. What's so hard? Just brush hog them down! Then they educated me on the one's you're talking about. YIKES! Whole 'nuther thing. Not the same at all. What a mess to deal with.

 

[MossRoad]

I enjoyed this video... must be similar to being sent to the gulags, with all the manual labor and such...

 

[MossRoad]

I think my little PT425 could still make a go of that, though.

 

[dfkrug]

I enjoyed this video... must be similar to being sent to the gulags, with all the manual labor and such...

Wow, looks like kudzu in Georgia. is this an ad for some power tools, Moss?

 

[bcp]

Vines about thumb or finger size.



They would take over this property if I didn't keep fighting them.

Bruce

 

[goeduck]

I enjoyed this video... must be similar to being sent to the gulags, with all the manual labor and such...

Relatively small patch and it will look the same as it was at the beginning in a years time. Maybe two. The roots can’t be killed, only slowed down for a short time

 

[k0ua]

Relatively small patch and it will look the same as it was at the beginning in a years time. Maybe two. The roots can’t be killed, only slowed down for a short time

When the shoots start to come back up, you can knock them down easily with just a weedeater in a few minutes. Just keep after it.

 

[goeduck]

When the shoots start to come back up, you can knock them down easily with just a weedeater in a few minutes. Just keep after it.

Yes, but lots and lots of shoots. This picture is after I pushed a trail trough one patch. This patch was about 10 foot high and about 5 acres. I have cleared patches twice that high if they have trees to help arch the canes.

 

[Tennsawdust]

Did you have a good time, trying to keep it between the ditches? Lots of fun. I did it a couple of times when I had the little Kubota B7500. I had been using 4WD but switched to 2WD up on the driveway (asphalt) and forgot to put in back in 4 wheel going down with a load in the bucket.. Oh boy.. was that ever fun... whoooo hooo..

That's where you hope you can do a controlled slide - stay away from the brakes, throttle up and stand on the diff. lock. The scary part is that on one side of the driveway is a 4-6 foot embankment that drops off toward the pond. I managed not to touch the barbed wire on either side.

 

[Tennsawdust]

Back to the question of mowing steep stuff... I mow some pretty steep ground. I'm less likely to roll on it than slide off it.

 

[Egon]

When going downhill with a full bucket there is a lever that does control the bucket. Use it and all slows down.

 

[k0ua]

When going downhill with a full bucket there is a lever that does control the bucket. Use it and all slows down.

If you do, make sure your bucket lip doesn't dig in. Make sure your "arse end" doesn't swap with the front end. Danger Will Robinson. If done correctly it can save you, but incorrectly it can help kill you. Far better to never get into this position to start with. STAY in 4wd when descending steep hills.

 

[Egon]

If you do, make sure your bucket lip doesn't dig in. Make sure your "arse end" doesn't swap with the front end. Danger Will Robinson. If done correctly it can save you, but incorrectly it can help kill you. Far better to never get into this position to start with. STAY in 4wd when descending steep hills.

When the bucket digs in the tractor usually stops going downhill.