Roll Over's and Brothers in Law

[toddwulf]

Roll Over\'s and Brothers in Law

Well, it had to happen to my Wife's Brother, who is no idiot, just not a tractor guy, yet. I had him shuttling Loaders of Sand into my power trench on my NH 1920 while I was in the trench spreading it out. To get from the Sand Pile, to where I was in the Trench, he had to cross a spring fed seasonal creek and well, we've had quite a bit of rain since Thanksgiving plus having dug over 1500' of trench, the creek crossing was something of a mucky mess.

Anyway, I heard on Oh **** and when I looked up I saw that he had the tractor, with the loader too high and full of wet sand, stuck in the muck at the front left tire. Before I could yell lower the Loader and THEN back out, he reversed it, the 4WD front tire dug in deeper and it slowly rolled over on it's side. Slow enough for him to jump out and then run back to try and hold it from completing the roll via the ROPS. I yelled at him to let it go!

Well, bruised ego but a few good laughs and some tips and what to do's, I got my contractors old tractor and we had it righted in 15 minutes. Wish I'd had my Camera and glad nobody was hurt.

Todd in Placerville

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Re: Roll Over\'s and Brothers in Law

Hopefully he learned his lesson. How is the tractor, everything ok still?

 

[toddwulf]

Re: Roll Over\'s and Brothers in Law

Tractors fine Robert. It was only on it's side for perhaps 15 minutes. I had been experiencing some Power Beyond hyd. problems prior to the roll. In the Repair Forum, I think it's been diagnosed down to a stuck releif valve.

He's a really good brother in law, don't get me wrong, in fact my wifes whole family is pretty good. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I'd have no problem letting him jump back on the tractor.

Todd in Placerville

 

[MChalkley]

Re: Roll Over\'s and Brothers in Law

Todd - But would he have a problem jumping back on the tractor, I wonder? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

We've all done stuff like that. I once tipped the Kubota over so gently that, since I was almost up against an 18-wheeler trailer, when it tipped, the rollbar hit the trailer and stopped me, but I was able to push the tractor back down with one arm while lowering the loader all the way to the ground, then back up the hill backwards. Unfortunately, I was being observed by my wife at the time. I still get reminded of that little misadventure regularly in safety lectures...

 

[ljh2]

Safety Devices

Mark - Seems that wives are sometimes pretty good safety devices... they never let you forget when you do something stupid/dangerous.

Larry /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MChalkley]

Re: Safety Devices

Yeah, Larry, and if you've ever had your wife observe something like that, the desire to never let it happen again serves as an extremely effective safety mechanism. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[billfires]

Re: Roll Over\'s and Brothers in Law

Todd, glad no one was hurt and the 1920 didn't get damaged. Just serves as a reminder that we all have to be careful when operating our machines. Hope the rest of the backfill goes safely.

Bill C