I have a couple questions for you?? First why don’t you have your tractor tires spread out as far as they can go?? Secondly add the big wheel weights on the back tires plus make sure you have fluid in your tires!! Then the tractor will be like having Velcro on the tractor!! You can mow a lot more steeper than you would ever expect!! Making a turn at the top of the hill one of your tires can be off the ground and you are still super safe
Great video!! I used to farm in Wales, you know its steep when you have to wedge your knees on the dashboard. It keeps the heart pounding especially when you start a bit of a slide!
I used to mow a large lawn on a lawn tractor. The hillside was 35degrees and you became well aware of how dodgy that was when doing a turn at the wall crossing the top of the hill whilst trying to avoid rabbit hole that would see you over. It was dodgy a time or two even on a small lawn tractor. Top work young man, next year put a swingometer onthe cab to show vertical! Top regards, JD.
Great video Geoff as always, I thought we had a field with a steep hill, but I think I would need to wear a nappy going up and down that hill😂🚜 keep up the great vids👍
yep been there. And made the mistake of cutting long lush grass heavy with dew. on a old ford-son tractor back in 1977. hill was one in three. I went into a 300 yard skid plus. at the bottom of the hill the ground was flat the grass eaten short by cows and a wide dusty footpath we came to a stop. got off tractor and walked home shaken all over, if we did not stop we would have shot over the edge of a quarry.
Good job we got plenty of banks here too in West Wales, I love the challenge of them. Have to say those banks you are topping look pretty steep, if it were me I'd probably top in reverse to climb the hill.
I use to mow hills like that at my old job with a Ventrac, but never on a tractor. There was another guy at work that drove the tractor. That takes alot more skill and courage! haha Great job Sir!
Lots of people can do a bank in the ploughing because the tractor digs in but when it comes to doing it in grass they tend to say no sometimes it can be to dry may a bit of lime help keep the gorse down 🇮🇲👍
Keep it topped off Geoff or else that gorse will grow back. I seem to remember, when I was a teenager, so mid-late 70's, that someone rolled a Roadless or County backwards over on that very same hill when rotovating it.
my first time on the brother in-laws farm he had me topping a field i would say steeper than this slightly with TL100 dodgy had to turn on the hill at the finish off just took it nice an easy got it done was actually most fun topping i had, think the worst thing was the sheer heat and no aircon or blower
Remember watching my boss tackle a hill like that with tanker….. didn’t end well.. he took out two hedges and went over a main road on his way back down
Good video you got to reverse up and cut down she will clime that no problem believe it or not diff lock will make you spin out just need 4wd and the higher gear so you got a bit of overrun on the engine to stop her looking up on the way down 👍
had a few runaways in the days of two wheel drive tractors ,not great fun also know a local farmer who wrote off a good case puma and nearly wrote himself off at same time going down a bit as steep as that spreading muck 4 wd is not always safe
I see by the cows in the pasture that you are letting the cows do the work for you instead of the cows locked in a barn and you bringing their food to them. Congratulations. Can't figure out why your clipping so short in the middle of summer. I hope you fence the cows out for 60 to 90 days so as to allow the grass to grow back. I have been watching a lot of Greg Judy YOU TUBE videos on rotational grazing for beef cattle.
That not steep at you can drive up the hill I have a hill with run out just a hedge then steeper again into someone field got to back up the and drive down deutz agtron was great the new holland you need the diff locks try send pictures .
@@GEOFFKV6080 I’m retired now my friend, but in my day I could certainly show you, make no mistake about that. You boys don’t understand what steep really is