Well now you have me interested in knowing just what this slope is. Pictures will never do it justice, so today if I don't forget I will take a 5' level and a tape measure along with me and check that slope. One thing I know for sure, you will not put a round baler on it and get it back off without some kind of sky hook!!
I have been around these steep hills of SE Ohio all my life, and this is the steepest one anybody farms that I know of.
When I cut the hay off this, I have to check the oil in my cutter bar on my 916 MoCo. Always loose some out of the vent tube on the right end of the machine, when it's on the down hill side.
One reason we kept the 2550 off the hill this year, it's rear tires are about worn out and last year didn't get enough grip to keep from sliding. While the 2755 cab tractor had new tires last year, so it sticks good running on dry hay. The 2550 would usually do the raking while I baled.
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Today's Featured Article - It Can't Be Done! - A Tractor Story - by Neil Campbell. I'll never forget the time back when I was a boy baling hay on our Farm in Big Rapid, Michigan. The most memorable event that took place was a trip up the steepest incline on the farm pulling an old New-Idea baler with a pony-motor for power and a haywagon. I had just talked my Dad into buying an old John Deere B with 6-speeds ahead and I was real proud of it, except it was a little smaller than the Case tractor that we normally
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