Scariest Tractor Moment

[dixiedrifter]

Was box blading around a 3 foot high steep embankment next to a road.

Tractor started to slide down the slope, only thing to do was to steer into it and hope it don't roll.

Of course the box blad caugh on the embankment, and somehow I managed to have an M9000 tractor hanging in mid-air balanced on two tires... one front and one back on opposite sides.

Nothing bad come of it, but dern my rear end done puckered up!

 

[farmboy12]

Wow! These are all good! Keep 'em coming!


Kyle

 

[EMS503]

On my old GC2300 I was using my sub soiler to open a trench for wires. I was on a small slope no seat belt on all of a sudden the tractor went up on two wheels and threw me out trapping my one leg between the seat and steering wheel with me standing on one leg in the wifes new flower garden. Don't know why it did'nt keep coming over but it started going foward and set back down on all four wheels. I now wear my seat belt all the time. I don't know what would have hurt more the tractor coming over on me or my wife had I messed up her garden

 

[farmboy12]

But was the garden OK....


Kyle

 

[dqdave1]

But was the garden OK....

He wrote this post; garden must be ok.

 

[DavidVT]

(1) First day I had the tractor I just had to make war with an old dead tree in my brook....
Did I ever learn that it is not a good idea to pull a tree in reverse with it connected to the bucket..... Putting that new tractor into 4x4 (in reverse) suddenly found my rear wheel climbing into the air as the front wheels wanted to continue under the tractor......

(2) Three engine hours later that same new tractor was totaled by a car with me on it.

Both quite scary...

 

[LBrown59]

This needs more explaination!

So it does

 

[Jeff244]

About 20 years ago I was leveling out some piles of dirt for someone with an old JD450 track loader with no ROPS. The area was full of brush and I couldn't see the ground. As I was pushing the dirt in 1 area, I ended up on a large branch that was in a ditch that broke. The machine started to tip. The operators area is kind of tight and as I was trying to get out I think I didn't have my legs in the right position and I got stuck momentarily, and then I froze. The machine teetered slowly and I thought for sure it was going to tip over but it didn't. It still upsets me that I froze because I have jumped off machines before and even onto that machine a few times. We used to have trouble with the starter and would use a screwdriver at the solenoid and a couple times it was in gear when we did it and it would take off, luckily in a low gear. I've also had to jump in a moving pickup truck and a tandem axle dump truck to stop them.


Jeff

 

[farmboy12]

That happened to my grandfather as a kid. He was mowing with a rear mower on his Oliver 60, the mower caught a stump, flipped him off, started moving again, and he had to catch up to it.


Kyle

 

[KHNewman]

Two events spring to mind...

I was felling trees and cutting them into large sections and was dragging and pushing the large (20-30ft) sections to move them closer to the trailer to cut them up further and load them to go to the dump. I had been at it for a few hours and was getting too comfortable and pushed a long section forward from the butt end so I could reposition it to drag it out of the pile. As I started to push the butt end the brush end hung up and the branch loaded up and popped off the FEL bucket shooting past my head with enough force to easily decapitate me. Needless to say that I learned a lesson about pushing with the FEL and then changed my underwear.

The other incident was simple enough...I was moving some dirt around grading in my backyard so I was dropping loads and backdragging with the bucket. I had dropped maybe 20 buckets and I threw the tractor in reverse to backdrag and went backward about 35 feet from where I dropped the load and stopped. I looked at where I had stopped and nearly choked because my left rear wheel was parked on top of a rock that was on top of a 4 foot high boulder wall. If I had backed up another 6 inches I would have flipped the tractor backwards and sideways off of a 4 foot wall. To make it extra scary I had the folded ROPS down and no seat belt on.