DId some mowing for a friend today!!!

JD Seller

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This is the bank around his new parking area for equipment. They did not get the slope correct on the fill. IT is too steep to mow in some places and really pretty steep everywhere. On the one place the JD 6400 MFWD started to get light on the front end going up the bank.

HE wanted it mowed so they could see where they need more dirt to flatten the sloops.
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That is one healthy looking crop of corn, from the distance it is in the shot, looks like some thick grass.
 
seems like I heard on slopes like that, to mow it going down-hill, so you don't rear over bckwards. Of course, you gotta go around somehow then, but at least you're not in the obit pages.
 
JD Seller,
Would you attempt to mow something like that with a ZTR?

I'm looking to pick up a used yard vac for my JD GT275. They want way too much for a bagger for the old girl.

I don't like to weed garden, I use grass and leafs for weed control in garden. Guess I'm lazy.
george
 
(quoted from post at 03:31:29 07/10/14) seems like I heard on slopes like that, to mow it going down-hill, so you don't rear over bckwards. Of course, you gotta go around somehow then, but at least you're not in the obit pages.

A few years ago I pulled over at a highway interchange because I saw two kids on Kubotas with rear rotary mowers way up at the top of a slope that I could tell at a glance was to steep for them to be on. As I watched they started down and you are right, they didn't rear over backwards. They slid down that slope for about 75 yards until they got to where it slackened off a little.
 
I don't like mowing green weeds. The tire flattens them down, then the next day the are back up again, looking like a bad hair cut. Stan
 
Nancy, if you add dirt to a slope to flatten it out some, it would/could slide after a period of time, and under the right conditions. The wise way to add dirt would be to excavate "stairsteps" in the existing slope before you begin, giving the new dirt a flat place to sit. The "stairsteps" are commonly called "benches".
 
(quoted from post at 03:31:29 07/10/14) seems like I heard on slopes like that, to mow it going down-hill, so you don't rear over bckwards. Of course, you gotta go around somehow then, but at least you're not in the obit pages.

The problem I have had going down is one rear wheel can actually lose traction and go backwards, allowing the other wheel to go twice as fast! Oh what a feeling! I prefer to mow steep grades by backing up the hill...if I reach the point where I spin out, that is where I stop. I put the tractor in reverse and use the brakes to control the speed down (without shifting). I get in some pretty steep slopes out in the mountains. I do brush clearing up to 3" diameter with my bush hog. Using this tractor which has a hand clutch that runs in oil makes a big difference as I can slip it as much as I want without burning it up. The 8' wide stance also helps on slopes.
 
Get you a flail mower end of that problem.
They rotate in the direction of travel and pick up the wheel tracks.
 
I would rather mow them going up as you can stop the tractor because the tire tread is the correct way to bite.

I would NOT do it with an older tractor that is not equipped with a roll guard. I was using a JD 6400 MFWD , Roll bar and front end loader for counter weight. IT would really take some thing major going wrong for that tractor to go over backwards.

I went up and back down in the same tracks. I then moved over and cut another swath.

The side back in the first picture I mowed around the side. There is a large chunk of concrete at the bottom that prevents you from mowing up and down. That was a little hairy but the tractor is weighted well.

I did wear my seat belt. I bet that I have not had it on with that tractor maybe 2-3 times. The tractor just turned over 16,000 hours. I bought it new in 1993.
 
One of my pasture fields looks like that,if not steeper and longer. The bottoms of most of my hills drop off into the creek/hollow like a ravine. I only bushog when ground is dry, and I mostly go up and down or not at all,and only when I feel RIGHT. Mark
 

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