Fatal tractor rollover

[wendallb]

Sad thing yes, I am also with my VFD and we had the same thing a few years ago with a man mowing on a steep incline and the tractor roll over him... very sad indeed..

 

[eepete]

Steve, if everyone saw what we see the world would be different and safer.

The few times I've skidded stuff, I've used the backhoe as the chain attachment point. I can lower it down and get at or below the axel line, and when things snag the backhoe bucket hits the ground and it all stops. Due to the weight and leverage at the point of attachment, I loose some pulling power but I gain a mechanism that keeps things from getting out of hand. And if I do hit something, I can stop and lift the log over it, then carry on. And I go "hydro" slow. The tractor has ROPS and FOPS.

Pete

 

[Duffster]

You can flip backwards even when pulling under the axle.

How is that?

Other than weight on the draw bar, which can only bring the front end up so far.

 

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The few times I've skidded stuff, I've used the backhoe as the chain attachment point.
Pete

Not sure I would count that has being all that safe

 

[riptides]

Some people just don't know how to use their tractor in a safe fashion. It has to be taught, observed and learned from somewhere or someone.

 

[oldballs]

We had had three tractor deaths in the past three weeks in this greater area. All the way from a 14 year old crashing into a rural bridge while towing a wagon to an experienced old man doing a back flip. Being inexperienced, I'm glad my place is fairly level and I'm trying hard not to do anything stupid.

 

[J_J]

One should understand that some people are over confident in what they can do. At sometime in their life, they did something similar, and assume that things are not that difficult. No one taught me tractor safety, or operation. I purchased a tractor, and read the book, and went out and checked things out. Seat belts on a tractor may be a good thing, but not around a pond, lake, etc, and not on a tractor without ROPS. Does everyone shut off the tractor engine when getting on and off? One has to think about safety for yourself, and other people around you. Accidents are just that, they are not supposed to happen, and when they do, people get hurt or die, and things get broken, and/or scare the he** out people.

 

[JoelD]

Safest method I've seen for pulling is attaching from the back, under the tractor to the front of the tractor. Impossible to flip it over backwards pulling that way. (at least the best method to prevent back flip)


Not to mention it continues to load down the tractor the harder you pull.

Joel

 

[Mikeeemo]

Safest method I've seen for pulling is attaching from the back, under the tractor to the front of the tractor. Impossible to flip it over backwards pulling that way. (at least the best method to prevent back flip)


Not to mention it continues to load down the tractor the harder you pull.

Joel

We use this method as well. We had a fellow killed a few years ago by pulling above the axle. He tried to pull a truck out of the mud. The clutch pedal got slick from all of the clay, his foot slipped off and over it went. I think about it every time I get on my tractor. I hope I never forget it. God be with him and his family.

 

[RoyJackson]

Safest method I've seen for pulling is attaching from the back, under the tractor to the front of the tractor. Impossible to flip it over backwards pulling that way. (at least the best method to prevent back flip)


Not to mention it continues to load down the tractor the harder you pull.

Joel

What do you hook to, Joel?

I use the drawbar. My pulls are slow, steady and as straight as possible.