Accident Waiting to Happen

[MasseyWV]

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[MasseyWV]

Just to put things into perspective, the following video illustrates what could have easily happened to the guy in the first video.

 

[Ted Summey]

Oh SH1$! Both of those are crazy! The first guy should have called a neighbor to help pull him out and shouldn't have had the kids watching. He looked a bit inexperienced and might not have known better. He probably doesn't know better now experience or not. Success there just seemed to breed more cavalier tractor operation - the standing and leg lifting going down the road.

The second guy it is hard to tell but when the tractor high centered the first time he should have reassessed the wisdom of his intention to cross that hump. I hope he lived to plow another day but it didn't look good at all! Just a different kind of cavalier on a tractor. The second vid shows how quick things go bad.

 

[jerrybob]

Agree......dumb moves on both these guys parts. I also hope the 2nd guy is OK.....what was he thinking? Another reason for ROP!!

 

[Thomas]

Than they wonder why there tractor always needs work..hope guy 2 ok.

 

[MBTRAC]

No ROPS & no seat belt is a fair indication of no brains as an operator - both tractors are probably now for sale by their widows & advertised as careful owner/light work only.........nothing like getting off without incident the first time to build the confidence for even greater acts of (tractor) stupidity.......

 

[creekbend]

RE: The First Video. I think that the operator was openly proud of himself but far too conceited. I also think that getting that Ford Tractor unstuck was not his "First Batch of Pickles" - Mountain Talk. RE: The Second Video. I don't know that individual personally, and I don't want to chastise his behavior too much. But, I think that he was DUMB and STUPID to attempt that maneuver. The incline appeared to be steep and the turning space at the end was much too limited. Since he had someone filming, he surely didn't expect the results.

 

[Don87]

If you pause the second video, almost at the end, you can see his feet sticking out from under the seat as the tractor crushes him.

 

[Soundguy]

ever see the guys chain logs and fence posts to tires to get unstuck. makes me shiver to watch..

 

[Ted Summey]

The man in the first video is a professor at a Appalchain State University and is chair of the computer science department! His farm is located in Creston which is in the far Northwest corner of NC and little else but mountains that hold the rest of the world together. I thought I had ceased to be amazed.....

 

[Mace Canute]

From James Wilkes comments on youtube when he uploaded the video:

The boys and I were getting oak logs to use for mushrooms out of the woods on the trailer. When I turned around to make sure no logs were falling off the trailer, I drove the front of the tractor into a branch next to the road. After trying to back out and using a come-along to no avail, I decided to drive down the hill and into the creek. It was a little hairy at times, though hard to tell from the video, and required taking down two fences, several small trees, and a big rock, but turned out okay. Much of the video is boring back and forth on the tractor, showing the persistence required to get out. We were quite happy in the end.

It appears he simply drove off the road because he wasn't looking where he was going!

A lot of educated people think that because they are educated, they are automatically smart and capable...this video shows that it isn't always so!

 

[creekbend]

From James Wilkes comments on youtube when he uploaded the video:

It appears he simply drove off the road because he wasn't looking where he was going!

A lot of educated people think that because they are educated, they are automatically smart and capable...this video shows that it isn't always so!

Here's an old saying from Appalachia: "Book Learning don't do you no good, if You ain't got Common Sense to go along with it".

 

[Tchara]

can you say 4WD

 

[MasseyWV]

The man in the first video is a professor at a Appalchain State University and is chair of the computer science department! His farm is located in Creston which is in the far Northwest corner of NC and little else but mountains that hold the rest of the world together. I thought I had ceased to be amazed.....

Being a professor, you'd think that he'd know better. :confused2:

 

[TripleR]

Having grown up in a time when no tractors had seat belts or ROPS and farming with a tractor just like that, I have seen and done things I sure would not do today. It was fairly common practice for someone to ride the hood to act as a front ballast when needed. My dad drove his Ford 600 until his death at the age of 79 and the things he did amazed me and he never turned a tractor over. A local logger still skids trees out with a tractor similar to that on slopes I won't go near on my 4WD tractors; scares me to death.

 

[MasseyWV]

my 3WD tractors

I hope that's a typo. :laughing:

 

[TripleR]

I hope that's a typo. :laughing:

:laughing:

 

[joshuabardwell]

I can't understand why the second guy didn't stop when the tractor started to lean. Maybe he'd done it a hundred times before and just got careless? I dunno. I'm far more timid than I probably need to be, due to my inexperience, but no matter how experienced you are, a tractor rolling over on you is going to ruin your day.

 

[TripleR]

NEBRASKASPARKS doesn't post on her anymore, but he had some interesting threads on tractor roll-overs etc. that are worth looking up and reading.

 

[k0ua]

I sure don't know what that second guy was thinking by turning around trying to pull that plow uphill, that he barely got down going downhill.. but he will not have to worry about it any more... RIP friend.