Don't do it.

[DarkBlack]

I'm guessing you can wrap the chain around the tire and hook it to itself.

And how do you do that with that tire supporting the tractor weight?

Plus my question in post #56 above.

 

[zzvyb6]

There are somethings potentially worse: "Can I borrow your tractor for an hour? Just need to move some rocks..."
"Will you help me cut down a tree 'branch' ?". "My car is stuck in the snow, how about giving me a push ?".
"My husband is out of town for a week, could you stop by and help me pick out a bathing suit ?"

 

[Tinhack]

I'm guessing you can wrap the chain around the tire and hook it to itself.

That sounds like too much math is required to drive over the chain at the right length and still have enough to wrap the post.

 

[DarkBlack]

That sounds like too much math is required to drive over the chain at the right length and still have enough to wrap the post.

… And then , with no side chains to keep it on the center of your tire, you then somehow finagle your tractor around so that a fence post is sticking up in front of your rear tire, without running it over or scratching/denting your platform or platform steps, and then somehow connect the chain to the post, with a chain somehow still centered on your tire?
Even if that somehow worked, which I can’t imagine unless someone explains it better, my platform and rear fenders are pretty close to the rear tires.
I could totally see the post coming out would wedge, and into my platform and fender where's they meet, and cause damage.

I don’t see this suggested method working at all with modern compact tractors, or maybe I’m missing something?

 

[Tinhack]

I don’t see this suggested method working at all in most normal cases with modern compact tractors

Nor with big tractors.

 

[BackRoad]

For what it's worth...(it would need to be an act of desperation!)

 

[California]

For what it's worth...(it would need to be an act of desperation!)

Note how he gets the clutch in, as the front goes up in the air.

There was recently a similar video on Reddit where the driver bails out as the tractor comes over on him. He just barely got clear.

 

[California]

How do you easily get a fence post lined up in front of your rear tire without first running it over, or at minimum hitting it with your operator platform or platform steps?

Looks like you need an Old School tractor like in the video above, for this to work.

 

[Alan W.]

There are somethings potentially worse: "Can I borrow your tractor for an hour? Just need to move some rocks..."
"Will you help me cut down a tree 'branch' ?". "My car is stuck in the snow, how about giving me a push ?".
"My husband is out of town for a week, could you stop by and help me pick out a bathing suit ?"

Yeah and Im like what the hell do I know about clothes.

 

[California]

Yeah and Im like what the hell do I know about clothes.

I don't think that was the point ....