Whatever you say, Bub

Didn't want to hijack K. Moldens thread. We farm on hills all the time. many moons ago I had some Soil conservation feller get on me about planting corn rows up and down the hills. "Ya gotta plant crossways on those hills to reduce erosion, don't ya know." I asked him how good his life insurance was. He gave me that whut????? look. I told him I would plant them crossways if he volunteered to chop em off for me.

We drove through SE Wisconsin S of Eau Claire recently and there was corn on hillsides that I wouldn't drive a tractor on! I had an uncle that farmed in W North Dakota and he used a crawler to farm some of his steep hills back in the 50's.

I can bear witness to those hills. Id need 50 more horses and a four wheel drive. At least all the round bales would roll to the bottom.

Lots of hillside farming here.

Where is here?

Yeah, there's a few hills here in central NY. I used to do one piece that I'd have to drive right on the edge of the windrow to keep the baler far enough uphill for the pickup to get it. You had to plan ahead to keep the kicker wagons right side up

I used to plant peas on steep hills. Had to run rows up and down it would be impossible to cultivate any other way. Used to cultivate with D2 Cat and 4 row riding cultivator, foot steer by son. 26" rows. Best to follow with grain crop before rains. It did leave ditches up and down.

Wow, beautiful country up there sms.

We rented a farm that had the steepest ground on it we farmed. We did contour fields all the time and in the 25 years I was involved tipped only one wagon over in an area that was actually not that steep. This piece I am talking about when you planted corn on it with 4 row wide the planter tractor you had to be real close to driving on the last row planted to get the spacing right. Slid down a few of those hills from using too small of a tractor and one time combing corn it started to drizzle and I told my dad now would be a good time to get off that hill. Barely made it. We usually did not chop corn on the steeper stuff, just planted it to combine later. I have been on steeper ground when custom swathing but really wondered if it was worth it as a lot of road ditches were less steep. I do agree with sometimes going straight up as that last piece I don't think a regular straw walker combine would function well, going straight up the grain would go over the sieves and down it would not have enough air to lift the stuff off. Sideways everything went down hill and getting slow enough was an issue.Not sure about rotaries as they were just coming out when I left farming full time.

Here in Ohio that ground would be just growing up in weed trees., Not even trying to pasture it. And it all would be classified as highly eroadable ground and be very limited to what you could do with it.

NY Catskill Mountains. Old pictures I could find quick.