Tilt Meter

CarlGlas · Jan 28, 2006

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Having been an RVer for many years, I've used several different models of those. When you park an RV, you want it as level as possible for a couple of reasons. If your bed isn't fairly level, you may not sleep very well (most can sleep with the head a little high, but not the feet or side to side). And RV refrigerators may not work if they aren't level (newer ones are not quite as sensitive as the old ones were). Those cheap RV levels work to just get a rig level, but if want to know the angle, you'll have to do some measuring and marking yourself. And of course the quality of materials and construction in the RV levels are not even close to the tiltmeter so they probably won't last as long or be as accurate even if you get them marked. )</font>

While I don't have a degree in Tiltmeterology," I could swear your tractor tilt meter and the RV tilt meter look like they could be twins. Of course I know that application and price is everything. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Tractor Tilt Meter
http://tinyurl.com/btp7j

RV Tilt Meter
http://tinyurl.com/dcuw4

CubSpaceCadet50 · Jan 29, 2006

So Tom, didja replace the ROPS after your little incident? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Seriously, did you have the dealer at least assess the ROPS post spill?

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I should talk, I mow on one embankment and little garden tractors don't know ROPS from a hole in the ground...

Bob

trlong · Jan 30, 2006

Bob,

Yup, but not for months. They checked it when they took it in to install/set-up the front-end snowblower. Said it was fine. The "roll" was very slow and all that was broken was the downhill side's turnsignal/brakelight housing lenses. I was lucky.

Let me see, "Bridport"...nice little town on the "border" of Vermont, right: /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Beats B-town or Montpeculiar though, by a long shot!

BTW: Welcome to the forum.

Tom

F100Panel · Jan 31, 2006

I posted here about a year ago advocating tilt meters. Are they 100% the answer? No...... But for my own comfort formula, I put the tractor with implements raised & lowered an various angles, got off & grabbed the ROPS ( I'm a sizeable guy/can yarn pretty good on stuff...) & gave the rops all the rocking motion I could muster. At 15 degree tilt I was never able to raise a wheel with implements at lowest transport height. With the loader over waist high tipping was easy... ( 3000 pd tractor/Chinese..). What did all this come to mean to me? At 15 degrees on known good terrain, no real worry. Anything over 15 degrees think it over & operate accordingly. I'd recommend you do the same on your own tractor to come up with a GUIDE that your comfortable with...

CarlGlas · Jan 31, 2006

In addition to using a Tilt Meter, it wouldn't hurt to use a little Common Sense too. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

wilkesland · Feb 3, 2006

I agree with the other posters - pay attention to your own tractor and take those yellow and red numbers very seriously.

For those posters who advocate common sense, let me provide a different perspective. Some of us, like me for example, don't have much, and I don't want to get hurt or die getting it. I'm new to tractoring, put a tiltmeter on my tractor and found out to my dismay that a slope I had been mowing with the 4 wheeler and brush mower was a little better than 15 degrees. So, the tiltmeter served to increase my pucker factor when I didn't have the sense to have one before. In fact when I got on the slope, I experienced the minor wheel rise from small mound on the high side and small depression on the low sided that Bird talks about, and holy smokes, it pegged!!!. I was going very slow at the time - actually trying to get back out of the situation I had gotten myself into. I remembered also Bird's story about trying to push the tractor over. So,STOPPED, shut engine down, took a few deep breaths, got off the tractor on the high side, then tried hard to push it over - didn't budge -good. Got back on, lowered the FEL and rear blades as low as I could and very s- l -o- w -l -y began to work the tractor back up the slope. Not going there again!!!

Two lessons learned, one about slopes, and more importantly a second one of trying to think of a safer way to assess the danger of a situation than putting myself in it. I'm not afraid of my machinery, but I've personally resolved to try and think and be careful - this is potentially dangerous stuff.

Barry

CoyoteLake · Feb 12, 2006

Any suggestions on where to mount an R/B tiltmeter on a JD 3x20?

Bird · Feb 12, 2006

I really don't know what would be the best place to mount your tiltmeter on your tractor. I had mine mounted to the frame of my canopy. Others have posted pictures of them mounted above the instrument panel, on the upright for a front end loader, and I don't remember where all else.