Working a steep hillside

   / Working a steep hillside #1  

bcp

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At about 45 seconds you can see the implement.


Bruce
 
   / Working a steep hillside #3  
That must be a lot steeper than the video suggests.
 
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There is a wide scene at 4:00, but the camera tilt lessens the grade.

Bruce
 
   / Working a steep hillside #5  
The following week "Junior" enlisted in the Royal Navy, to get away from the farm.
 
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   / Working a steep hillside #6  
That must be a lot steeper than the video suggests.

Hills always appear less-steep in videos and pictures. As someone else mentioned, watch the entire video. There's a good shot of the hill from the side and shows better how steep it is, and how long it is. That's a lot of hillside to be working 6-8' at a swipe.
 
   / Working a steep hillside #7  
Apparently, they don't have a government who provides an EBT card to purchase overpriced chips at the local convenience store.
 
   / Working a steep hillside #8  
Hills always appear less-steep in videos and pictures. As someone else mentioned, watch the entire video. There's a good shot of the hill from the side and shows better how steep it is, and how long it is. That's a lot of hillside to be working 6-8' at a swipe.

I watched the whole video just didn't seem too steep to run a tractor on
 
   / Working a steep hillside #10  
That hillside was plenty steep - not going to catch me running my tractor horizontally on anything like that. Land must be at a premium, wherever that is. It not just the cultivating but the planting, embedding the seed and harvesting that will be difficult also.
 
   / Working a steep hillside #11  
I reckon I would not have much trouble operating the tractor, but about one pass up and down that steep hill with the cultivator would have done me in. I sure hope those guys traded off jobs once in a while, and the guy operating the cultivator had the bad end of it.
 
   / Working a steep hillside #12  
The comments say they are getting ready to plant potatoes.
 

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