steep hills ah yep BTDT . Back i 1970 a buddy and i took a contrat to mow four tennaco main lines like 94 miles of them . First day one the job we made on round on one line between two back township roads and shut down to regroup and rethink . We had a Case 310G dozer with three point and PTO and a 8 foot brush hog on it with the power angle blade , going up the hills we only had two to three pads on each side on the ground , The rented 430 Case wheel tractor had the same brush hog on it and four slab weights on the ft. and you could not go up the hills . We needed more frt weight like a lot . For the dozer we made two brackets up and welded them on top of the blade and hung a ton of I H suite case weight on the two brackets . For the 430 we had to go to three Case dealers to find more slabes and ended up with 14 of them on the nose . ON the steep hills you had to lean over the steering wheel to keep the ft on the ground . One hill that we mowed was so steep the only way we could mow it was down the hill and barely had enough power to climb the hill with the brush hog off . We mowed hills so steep that the young guys we hired to do around the fences and stand pipes could not get up them with there dirt bikes . Learned that it is vary wise to not try and mow after a rain storm , When a dozer slides off the hill with the track locked and goes airborn over the tarrecs with the brush hog bouncing in the air looking like the propeller of and air boat ya knew it was to wet . I had just slid off that hill with the 430 with one wheel going 900 MPH in one directio and the other doing it in the opposite direction , there was no stopping it all you could do was try and keep it straight and hang on and ride it out . My buddy was setting at the top taking this all in and busten a gut laughing , then he started down the hill and as he crossed the one terrace he go a little sideways and grabbed the steering brake and everything went down hill from there . After that the hills we farm on are flat land now .
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