One big pan under the discs shares oil all the way across, the gears all spin in that pan of oil. If you mow on a good hillside all the oil runs to one end. The gears tend to carry the oil back up again and get oil, but the upper side will eventually get a little dry. The manuals on these have recommendations of how long to go before leveling the bar for a couple minutes to get the oil distributed again; but on a three acre patch you should be just fine. The concern is if you mow road ditches and drive a half hour with the end of the mower up the whole time.
The other design of mower is individual segments, each turtle is driven by its own independent gear set with its own resivor of oil per turtle. These aren’t affected by a slope. But you have a lot more dip sticks to check!
So to answer your question exactly, it is something to be aware of with certain models but a 3 acre field you likely will get the bar flattened out from time to time and not have any issues at all, check your manual but I wouldn’t be worried about it as long as you get the bar level every 15 minutes or so I think is the common recommendation.
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