New tractor ended up in the pond

[Renze]

Beenthere, I attempted the "jump on and hit the brake" move too...obviously it didnt work. :ashamed: Looking back I should have just turned the wheel!! It was running so it had power steering! I guess my mind wasn't working at that moment...It was busy thinking " OH !@#$, there goes my $20K tractor!!!"

Perhaps you were just lucky... How steep was the hillside ?? If you jerk the steering wheel over at speed on a hillside, you might have rolled it...

Anyways, i bet you double check the parking brake before walking away, from now on..

 

[Renze]

Best to let runaway vehicles go. My brother-in-law tried to catch a runaway truck and it cost him his life. Just let them go, they will stop on their own.

OOPS... Yes, that experience puts the value of new equipment in a TOTALLY different perspective, and i fully respect your point of view !

 

[vtsnowedin]

I once had a David Brown 880 tractor that had bad seals where the shift levers came up out of the transmission. If you left it out in the weather, without a sap bucket over the levers, rainwater would run down the rod into the tranny. The fluid was milky more often then not. trouble was if a speck of dirt got in it would wind up in the spool valves of the loader or three point hitch and leave you in a no lift situation. If you let it sit for a while the water would settle into the sump pan on the bottom and freeze solid into a block in winter.
I'd change your fluid just to be" for sure for sure" like a Valley girl and use the old to start brush piles on fire. With burning permit in hand of course.

 

[BroBro]

Just one question why were you operating the tractor on a bank pulling trees with the ROPS down.
I would say you were real lucky and I don't just mean the little trip to the tractor wash !!!!
Some people just won't learn until it is to late.
If you had turned the wheel and rolled the tractor I bet your wife and kid's would have never thought of how much water got in the transmission.
Just a thought if you keep operating that Deere with the ROPS down your going to need more than luck !!!!:confused3:

 

[mdelmarcelle]

could this be the one? interesting video
Tractor demolition derby at W-Mart superstore parking lot in RH - YouTube

That's the one. For the OP, at least it wasn't this bad. Something tells me that tractor suffered at least a little damage and those cars it pushed around are gonna need some scratches buffed out. And for Walmart, guess you gotta look out for falling prices and John Deer 7XXX Series runaway tractors. :laughing: