Machinery talk thread

**unstuck** · 3rd January 2013, 11:11

Thats nasty alright Nova, seen it before, but always puts a bit of a chill in my spine. I have slidden off of hillsides before in a digger and it is a freaky feeling, there is fuck all you can do really once you are going like that. He should of had cleats on though, may of been a different ending. That pipe layer one is a fuckin hoot too.

I have a couple of mates over in England and Ireland who drive a bit of machinery for a living, mostly tractors on cropping farms over there. I was trying to explain to them about some of our cultivation work up in the hills, they could not grasp what I was talking about, so I sent them this video...... They were shocked, apparently they dont do hill work over there. A couple have since been over and had a go themselves, on some gently rolling country, and they were fucking shitting themselves.

**Nova.** · 3rd January 2013, 11:15

this is another doozie, probably seen it but i still laugh every time, fucking crazy russians!

**bogan** · 3rd January 2013, 11:42

Originally Posted by unstuck

Thats nasty alright Nova, seen it before, but always puts a bit of a chill in my spine. I have slidden off of hillsides before in a digger and it is a freaky feeling, there is fuck all you can do really once you are going like that. He should of had cleats on though, may of been a different ending. That pipe layer one is a fuckin hoot too.

I have a couple of mates over in England and Ireland who drive a bit of machinery for a living, mostly tractors on cropping farms over there. I was trying to explain to them about some of our cultivation work up in the hills, they could not grasp what I was talking about, so I sent them this video......They were shocked, apparently they dont do hill work over there. A couple have since been over and had a go themselves, on some gently rolling country, and they were fucking shitting themselves.

Hill work with things on the back aint so bad, its carting baleage or gravel on the front end loader that gives me the shits. Fucking unsuspended single pivot beam axle makes it very unstable, never rolled one, but brought a back wheel up and had to turn into the slope or drop the loader a few times. Even managed to get it on three wheels on the flat, may have been trying to do drifties though

Its likely the bump stops would prevent it going over, but I'm not keen to test that theory!

**Nova.** · 3rd January 2013, 11:49

Originally Posted by bogan

Hill work with things on the back aint so bad, its carting baleage or gravel on the front end loader that gives me the shits. Fucking unsuspended single pivot beam axle makes it very unstable, never rolled one, but brought a back wheel up and had to turn into the slope or drop the loader a few times. Even managed to get it on three wheels on the flat, may have been trying to do drifties though

Its likely the bump stops would prevent it going over, but I'm not keen to test that theory!

hahaha so im not the only one whose tried to drift a front end loader?

**bogan** · 3rd January 2013, 12:03

Originally Posted by Nova.

hahaha so im not the only one whose tried to drift a front end loader?

The lockable diff is there for a reason! Though last time I used it was cos I got stuck in a bog building an MX track, took about 20mins to crawl out again with the loader. Protip, bogs on an incline shoud be approached from the bottom, so a slide down the hill take you out of the bog