Kubota M7060HD12 almost crushed me

[Ortimber]

Glad you are ok.

Also thankful you shared your experience so that myself and others can give our own safety another thought.

 

[Ivan49]

Glad you are alright. My rule has always been any mech. device can and will fail at some point in time. I never take a chace as I don't want to be in the way

 

[Ortimber]

Very poor design if you can't trust a parking brake.

Any mechanical device can fail. You can’t trust any of them with 100% certainty. Heck, even airbags fail and kill people, and their main purpose is to save lives.

 

[inode]

If the engine had been off, would there have been any tractor generated impulse to release the brake?

If the engine was off, I presume the tractor would not have moved, or am I wrong due to the grade?

Seems to me like you violated several standard tractor safety procedures. We all get careless/sloppy, myself included, from time to time.

You need to review and dedicate yourself to safe tractor operating procedures rather than Kubota redesign the tractor.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!

The reason for my post was to provide awareness. I agree that I should have had all implements down and take responsibility in that regard. I don't know that that would have still prevented tractor from rolling based on the grade; There's very little level ground on my place. Whether engine was running or not, I feel that it still would have jumped out of park. I'd still prefer to have a parking brake beyond shifting into park.

 

[Agvg]

Dosent matter og things are of a poor design, I do use the parking brake on my car and I'm expecting the car be in the same spot as I left it. Not to much to ask?

 

[jeff9366]

The reason for my post was to provide awareness. .

Sharing your experience is great. But you do not seem to have thought through the ramifications of your actions fully, in order to make tractor operation safer in the future.

Everything you needed to prevent the rollback was there. You failed to turn off the engine and lower the FEL bucket.

 

[Agvg]

Strange, no blame on the design, only on the driver....

 

[cat fever]

Strange, no blame on the design, only on the driver....

Yep, I think park means park. It should not move.

 

[inode]

Sharing your experience is great. But you do not seem to have thought through the ramifications of your actions fully, in order to make tractor operation safer in the future.

Everything you needed to prevent the rollback was there. You failed to turn off the engine and lower the FEL bucket.

Respectfully, who are you to determine whether I have thought through my actions? Trust me, you have ~8-10K pounds of steel gunning for you and you make it out unscathed allows for adjustment in thinking in the future. Your response makes me consider why I posted my experience. I forgot we have some true experts here that know everything.

 

[atsah]

I thought I'd re-post here to bring awareness to something that happened to me recently. I have a new Kubota M7060HD12 which has the transmission with the parking transmission and no friction-based, separate, manual parking brake. This tractor almost crushed me while using it. I was in the middle of swapping out/adjusting implements and had put it into park while on the tractor. I was on a slight grade and did not lower my FEL. I put it into park; I saw the red park light come on, on the dash. I got off the tractor and went behind it. As I was hooking up the implement, the tractor jumped out of Park and starting rolling backwards towards me gaining speed as the decline increased. I had to run around the side of the tractor and hit the brakes with my hands as there was no time to get on the tractor. This is a new tractor with ~8 hours on it. My wife and elderly parents were told of the incident found no humor in the event. Had it been a cab model and not an open cab, I would not have had time to hit the brakes. This would have been a KTAC claim as I would not have been able to stop the tractor from getting away from me.


I have heard ChuckE2009 on Youtube mention his 7060 had jumped out of Park a couple times. This is something that needs to be looked at. I won't get off tractor now without FEL and implements down. Kubota needs to add a friction-brake to all models of their tractors.

In the meantime, others in another post had suggested carrying wheel chocks. I don't think that's out of the question for this model tractor. I use the tractor in hilly terrain and I no longer have a warm and fuzzy about it being in Park when the dash light says it is. Be careful out there...

So do you have a foot brake you can lock along with the park feature?