dougfollett
Member
I know most of you guys are aware of the dangers of operating a tractor but just in case some of the new owners haven't had the thrill of tipping or nearly tipping over a tractor, let me offer this little tale.
I was loading some horse puckey into the back of a pickup truck. I had already bent the bucket mechanisim by trying to load the whole pile all at once (you can read about that in my previous post). The bucket was still intact enough for me to do some loading, it just wouldn't go as high as it used to. I was carying loads over to this truck and then raising them and dumping. As I did I would loose a few chunks on the driveway. I had a smart Idea to raise the bucket at the pile where I was loading up instead of in front of the truck that I was loading. This would keep the mess at the pile I thought. The pile was about fifty feet away from the truck and over a slight incline that went from side to side on the tractor. It never caught my attention becase it couldn't have been more than six inches difference at the very most from side to side. The bucket was raised nearly to full height and as I came up over the incline, slightly tilting the tractor, it tipped over with me in it! I would have never guessed that it would have gone over on such s slight incline but it did. Luckily I was able to jump clear and save my silly ****. I guess the moral of the story is "Be carefull when driving around with a fully extended bucket. Your center of gravity is severly altered".
I was loading some horse puckey into the back of a pickup truck. I had already bent the bucket mechanisim by trying to load the whole pile all at once (you can read about that in my previous post). The bucket was still intact enough for me to do some loading, it just wouldn't go as high as it used to. I was carying loads over to this truck and then raising them and dumping. As I did I would loose a few chunks on the driveway. I had a smart Idea to raise the bucket at the pile where I was loading up instead of in front of the truck that I was loading. This would keep the mess at the pile I thought. The pile was about fifty feet away from the truck and over a slight incline that went from side to side on the tractor. It never caught my attention becase it couldn't have been more than six inches difference at the very most from side to side. The bucket was raised nearly to full height and as I came up over the incline, slightly tilting the tractor, it tipped over with me in it! I would have never guessed that it would have gone over on such s slight incline but it did. Luckily I was able to jump clear and save my silly ****. I guess the moral of the story is "Be carefull when driving around with a fully extended bucket. Your center of gravity is severly altered".