No One Was Hurt

[McCaskey]

No one was hurt, no physical damage, just a severely bruised ego. My buddy rolled his tractor over backwards on a hill. He's driven this hill a thousand times, but it only takes one accident. He said the tractor just lifted and rolled to the right without warning in a split second. A tree caught the bucket preventing it from rolling over on him. Notice the missing bark in the first picture.

Lessons learned:

Buy a roll bar.
Buy a seat belt.
Backup the hill.

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Of his original 9 lives, this used up 4.

 

[Big Bri]

Wow, lucky man. Glad he's ok.

 

[dave1949]

Yikes. Close call. Glad he is okay.
Dave.

 

[cspot]

Glad he is OK. Looks like he might have had the loader kind of high in the air though. He is lucky that it caught the tree and the tractor didn't roll on over. The hill doesn't really look that steep in the photos, but have seen people roll tractors in "innocent" looking places before especially with FEL's. You can never be too careful. Since I bought a new tractor with a rollbar, I have been trying to get in the habit of putting the seatbelt on all the time. It is a good practice.

 

[cspot]

Looking at the photos again it looks like maybe he ran the left side up on that steep bank which is pretty steep.

 

[jlsmith]

Thank God no one got hurt and he is ok. Did it do much damage to the tractor?

 

[kebo]

Looking at the photos again it looks like maybe he ran the left side up on that steep bank which is pretty steep.

I would tend to agree with that. Look at the position of the tractor in relation to that steep bank. If you simply righted the tractor where it lays now, it would probably lay back over on its side since would it be sideways on a pretty steep hill.

My guess is he got careless/distracted/ or wasn't really paying attention and it veered left as he drove up the road. The left side got onto the steep bank and it laid over on its side.

Regardless of how it happened, the main thing is he survived it with nothing more than a bruised ego. He'll get over that, and the tractor probably will probably run again too. At least I hope so, looks like a pretty nice 8N.

 

[doall]

I too am glad he's ok and I hope his ford is. The first thing I noticed is how high the loader was, that in combination w/ maybe putting the left wheel on the bank would have made for some center of gravity problems.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

I am glad that he is ok as well. How old is that tractor? It still looks like new underneath with the red paint.. A good reminder to be careful and not complacent.

 

[JDGreenGrass]

Oh geez, what a scary sight.

Glad he is un-scathed. I'm sure the nerves are still twitching. Lucky man.

 

[brin]

Look in the lower left of the second photo up against the bank you can see the tread marks of his left rear tire...so I go along with the theory that he momentarily got distracted and the loose steering on those N's let him drift up on that bank to the left and the tractor suddently just laid over.....that is a narrow trail and with the loose steering it would be easy to do if you took your eye off just for a second.

 

[MarkV]

Looks like that is going to be a tricky place to get the tractor upright again. Not much room to work with.

MarkV

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Lessons learned:

Buy a roll bar.
Buy a seat belt.
Backup the hill.

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AND

Keep the loader low, especially on a hill​

 

[56FordGuy]

Glad everyone is alright.

With regard to the loader, I've seen a lot of older designs that did not have hydraulic down pressure. It's possible that as the tractor went over, the centrifugal force caused the loader to 'swing' out/ up.

 

[jimmyj]

I don't know about the loader, fordguy has a good point. It would seem odd the driver was going up with the loader way up like that. But, would it have swunt out and hit the tree that fast on it's own. Quite a mystery.

It's good he was OK, that thing could have rolled right on down the hill if that tree was not there! Yikes.

It's amazing how quick these things can go over, we can never be reminded too often.