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How steep of a slope can a T300 handle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Eric" data-source="post: 3264" data-attributes="member: 108"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Today went pretty well. I measured the slope and it is not a 1 to 1 as I had feared. Its a little less than 1 to 1 but I forgot exactly what I had measured. I will make sure I remember tomorrow. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I cut grade going down hill first with the tooth bucket. I was only able to get half scoops.Then I backed up the hill and loaded the dirt into my 10 wheeler. I then wanted to try and grade by cutting upward. I drove down the slope backward with a bucket full of dirt just to make sure I wouldnt just flip backward if I had an empty bucket. Everything felt okay untill I began dumping out some of the dirt in the bucket. It began to feel a little light in the front and that worried me. So I decided to put my 963's smooth bucket on and use it to grade. The smooth bucket has about a 1.3 cubic yard capacity. So as I graded up hill, I would leave about 1/4 to 1/3 of the bucket full of dirt to act as a counter weight for the front end. This worked realy well. If you where to do this with the tooth bucket, the amount of counter weight dirt that I felt comfortable with would not leave you much room for spoils.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">That first attempt at seeing if I could grade uphill on that slope was kinda scary. Remember, Im accessing this job from the top of the hill and theres no place to turn around at the bottom of the slope. Its not like Im at the bottom of the hill and climbing upward and then seeing what the machine can do and if it gets kinda scary then I could simply go back down. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Below are some photos from the today.</span></p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?start=all#imgAnch23" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8237Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8237Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8238Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8238Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">View from above.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8246Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8246Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Street down below.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8240Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8240Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">View from side.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8247Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8247Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">View from below.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8250Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8250Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">View from other side.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8252Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8252Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8253Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8253Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8257Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8257Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8260Small.jpg" alt="IMG_8260Small.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">If you want to see all the photos just click on a photo and it will take you to the photobucket gallery.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric, post: 3264, member: 108"] [SIZE=4]Today went pretty well. I measured the slope and it is not a 1 to 1 as I had feared. Its a little less than 1 to 1 but I forgot exactly what I had measured. I will make sure I remember tomorrow. I cut grade going down hill first with the tooth bucket. I was only able to get half scoops.Then I backed up the hill and loaded the dirt into my 10 wheeler. I then wanted to try and grade by cutting upward. I drove down the slope backward with a bucket full of dirt just to make sure I wouldnt just flip backward if I had an empty bucket. Everything felt okay untill I began dumping out some of the dirt in the bucket. It began to feel a little light in the front and that worried me. So I decided to put my 963's smooth bucket on and use it to grade. The smooth bucket has about a 1.3 cubic yard capacity. So as I graded up hill, I would leave about 1/4 to 1/3 of the bucket full of dirt to act as a counter weight for the front end. This worked realy well. If you where to do this with the tooth bucket, the amount of counter weight dirt that I felt comfortable with would not leave you much room for spoils. That first attempt at seeing if I could grade uphill on that slope was kinda scary. Remember, Im accessing this job from the top of the hill and theres no place to turn around at the bottom of the slope. Its not like Im at the bottom of the hill and climbing upward and then seeing what the machine can do and if it gets kinda scary then I could simply go back down. Below are some photos from the today.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?start=all#imgAnch23'][IMG alt="IMG_8237Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8237Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8238Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8238Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]View from above.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8246Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8246Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]Street down below.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8240Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8240Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]View from side.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8247Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8247Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]View from below.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8250Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8250Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]View from other side.[/SIZE] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8252Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8252Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8253Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8253Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8257Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8257Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/?'][IMG alt="IMG_8260Small.jpg"]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/eric91780/T250%20Hillside%20Grading/IMG_8260Small.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=5]If you want to see all the photos just click on a photo and it will take you to the photobucket gallery.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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