Two years ago I pulled over to watch two young fellows on Kubotas that were mowing the road slope between two ledge outcropings. I could see that they were on a slope at right around 45 degrees and that it would be too steep for them. As I watched they came down. They slid a pretty good way but stayed straight and upright. I bet they never tried that again. Hey young fella Old, about fifty years ago when I was young and riding a dirt bike we could go up steeper hills than we could come down. Our arms and legs weren't long enough to enable our butts to get behind the rear wheel, LOL. There was one place in the sand quarry where we used to ride, where we went up over a band of clay. The sand would fall out from under the clay band so it was a little bit over backwards, and you had to have your tire spinning when you hit the ground again on the clay band. You had to hit it hard so that your front would collapse some to enable you to keep going up. Guys that didn't hit it hard enough had a pretty good drop. That was a big sand quarry, they hauled out by train in order to expand Logan Airport in Boston in the fifties
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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