I agree with Grandad…Where the limit is, honestly on a tractor I am not sure and don’t want to find out. I am sure it takes longer to turn my orange turtle right side up than to turn upside down. But from another perspective, in my youth I have done extremely dangerous and incredible things…sometimes on the safer side of a closed course track most times not. Sometimes a danger to only myself, sometimes to with someone on the back (I am talking motorcycles)…anyway there is a balance point whether on the front wheel or the rear…once you past it, the machine is riding you…on front wheel, touching brake will not recover it…rear wheel touching rear brake can bring it down, but usually sort of violent…On the way up (rear wheel), sure you can shift it and you can walk it into triple digits, but that makes the recovery more violent with the rear brake if go past the balance point. Where balance point is on tractor? I am not sure and don’t want to find out, I suspect the brakes on tractor have less touch than on a race machine. (Seeing ground below the machine as you transfer weight to the balance point is misleading….your eyes see ‘on the ground’ not the lack of traction transferring the weight to the other axle.
Side to side…let’s think off road 4x4 travel…generally once the wheel on Left side is above the wheel on R side you are at or approaching the balance limit…width of track and tire size has some impact on COG, but in general one wheel on one side higher than the other side you are near a balance point…tractor is sort of closer to 4x4 vehicle in my perspective than the 2 wheel machines. Off road vehicles also have suspension basically at the hubs (gain traction with some level of suspension compression vs only a center pivot on the front axle like a tractor without suspension.
Just sayin’…keep the rubber side down, and as fast as necessary and as slow as possible. Get a little happy with the throttle and or the machine starts to bounce, I am not sure how you recover a machine starting to slide, maybe sideways and, has a front axle with a center pivot…i did not say it’s impossible, but i would question are we lucky or good. Anyway keep the rubber side down.
Side to side…let’s think off road 4x4 travel…generally once the wheel on Left side is above the wheel on R side you are at or approaching the balance limit…width of track and tire size has some impact on COG, but in general one wheel on one side higher than the other side you are near a balance point…tractor is sort of closer to 4x4 vehicle in my perspective than the 2 wheel machines. Off road vehicles also have suspension basically at the hubs (gain traction with some level of suspension compression vs only a center pivot on the front axle like a tractor without suspension.
Just sayin’…keep the rubber side down, and as fast as necessary and as slow as possible. Get a little happy with the throttle and or the machine starts to bounce, I am not sure how you recover a machine starting to slide, maybe sideways and, has a front axle with a center pivot…i did not say it’s impossible, but i would question are we lucky or good. Anyway keep the rubber side down.
