steve whiteside
Active Member
So I recently bought a T650 with wide tracks. Ive been spending some time getting to know the machine on my hilly property. I want to cut some roads along the contour of a side slope. I searched and people were saying make a flat spot for your tracks, take a bite of the slope with tractor on the flat spot, use that soil to extend flat spot, make another bite, etc...
I gave that a try and it is pretty slow. My results were kind of lumpy and a lot of back and forth, over and over. I wonder if there is a better way? It seems like a 6 way dozer blade or a side to side tilt plate behind my bucket would be better by far. I could have the tractor sideways on the slope, tilt the blade/bucket so that I was taking a bite of the slope and and slowly drive along the contour in a constant cut. It seems like it would go really smooth if I took small cuts.
realize my slopes are variable and I am not talking about a super steep side slope- I have some of those but I am not building roads on those sections.
Am i missing something? I have less than 50 hours on any sort of heavy machinery- so I have a lot to learn.
DD
I gave that a try and it is pretty slow. My results were kind of lumpy and a lot of back and forth, over and over. I wonder if there is a better way? It seems like a 6 way dozer blade or a side to side tilt plate behind my bucket would be better by far. I could have the tractor sideways on the slope, tilt the blade/bucket so that I was taking a bite of the slope and and slowly drive along the contour in a constant cut. It seems like it would go really smooth if I took small cuts.
realize my slopes are variable and I am not talking about a super steep side slope- I have some of those but I am not building roads on those sections.
Am i missing something? I have less than 50 hours on any sort of heavy machinery- so I have a lot to learn.
DD