"I didn't see it!"

[Oldoak]

That is called 1 beer too many.

Or texting while driving!

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I will admit, I do like to watch tractor fail videos on YouTube.

This one cracks me up every time. Russian tractor broken in half ))) - YouTube

 

[k0ua]

Thanks BCP. I am still laughing as I type this...:laughing:

 

[hawkeye08]

Back in the fall of '76, I was farming (about 300 acres irrigated land) and had a piece that had nice 1/2 mile runs when planting. The wheel tractors had trouble pulling a slight grade with all the equipment so was using an International TD14 crawler to pull 8' disc, 8' packer, 8' grain drill, all in one train. I put in long days, dawn to dusk for a couple of weeks to get it planted to winter wheat. Sometimes, Pa would come down (it was 65 miles from home, so I commuted) and help move the truck along the end of the field with the seed and help load the seed in the drill as needed.

On one end of the field was a 10' deep waste water ditch and one day I was very tired so Pa took a turn planting while I took a nap at lunch time. I woke up and could not hear the crawler pulling the hill as it should have been by then, so I drove across the field to see what was wrong... he had fallen asleep driving the crawler and woke up when it started going into the ditch. His quick reaction got it turned and out of the ditch but turning that sharp and quick was a mistake. The hitch on the disc got caught up in the track and went up over the cab of the tractor.. the hitch was beyond repair, so we used a logging chain to connect disc to tractor.. wish I had a camera then to capture one of the few mistakes Pa ever made.. I did not let him "relieve" me after that..

Some of the dryland farms (no irrigation) in central Washington were thousands of acres, kids fell asleep driving tractors all too often.. most of the time, no damage done.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Most of the maneuvers appear to be intentional... but of course they're not. Reminds me of monster truck competition.

The ones that are in the ditch etc or the Hydro tower in the middle of the field are most often from the operator falling asleep at the wheel. Long hours and the boredom of up the field, down the field, up the field, down the field.....take their toll. Happened at a farm not far from me a few years ago to a guy packing a bunk silo -- just drove off the far end and stood the tractor on it's nose. Luckily it didn't go over.

 

[Thomas]

Talk about pucker power. :confused2:

 

[Gator6x4]

Back in the fall of '76, I was farming (about 300 acres irrigated land) and had a piece that had nice 1/2 mile runs when planting. The wheel tractors had trouble pulling a slight grade with all the equipment so was using an International TD14 crawler to pull 8' disc, 8' packer, 8' grain drill, all in one train. I put in long days, dawn to dusk for a couple of weeks to get it planted to winter wheat. Sometimes, Pa would come down (it was 65 miles from home, so I commuted) and help move the truck along the end of the field with the seed and help load the seed in the drill as needed.

On one end of the field was a 10' deep waste water ditch and one day I was very tired so Pa took a turn planting while I took a nap at lunch time. I woke up and could not hear the crawler pulling the hill as it should have been by then, so I drove across the field to see what was wrong... he had fallen asleep driving the crawler and woke up when it started going into the ditch. His quick reaction got it turned and out of the ditch but turning that sharp and quick was a mistake. The hitch on the disc got caught up in the track and went up over the cab of the tractor.. the hitch was beyond repair, so we used a logging chain to connect disc to tractor.. wish I had a camera then to capture one of the few mistakes Pa ever made.. I did not let him "relieve" me after that..

Some of the dryland farms (no irrigation) in central Washington were thousands of acres, kids fell asleep driving tractors all too often.. most of the time, no damage done.

A lot of farmers suffer from the same problem, "sleep deprivation" and as a result have had some very "awakening incidents" while driving farm equipment.

 

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Ditch? What ditch? Where?

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Bruce

Last picture may not be a fair accusation. The combine may just be getting a drink.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Along with sleep deprivation and boredom is the issue of GPS driven tractors now especially in the larger HP farm tractors that do everything in one pass. The only action required is push a couple buttons at each end, turn the tractor to the next pass, push the engage button again and the tractor drives itself till the next turn around. I guess that would make for a quick nap easily.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Along with sleep deprivation and boredom is the issue of GPS driven tractors now especially in the larger HP farm tractors that do everything in one pass. The only action required is push a couple buttons at each end, turn the tractor to the next pass, push the engage button again and the tractor drives itself till the next turn around. I guess that would make for a quick nap easily.

I think some of the programming is ahead of that now. A couple guys around me claim to make the outside pass and the rest is up to the computer for driving, especially the positioning for the next pass -- within inches. All they have to do is watch the monitors. I still fail to see why/how they seemingly embrace technology that is going to put them out of a job.