Scariest Tractor Moment

[farmboy12]

folded ROPS down and no seat belt on.

Actually, if you look at instructions printed, usually on fender of tractor, it says that if ROPS is down, seatbelt should be off so you can jump and not be squished by tractor landing on top of you.

Seatbelt should be on when ROPS is up, so you stay on and not crushed.


Kyle

 

[KHNewman]

yeah I know it says that if the ROPS is down the seat belt should be off but let me tell you that if I had gone that extra 6 inches I would have been upside down way before my brain would register what happened and jumping would not have been an option.

My point was more along the lines of seat belt on and ROPS up = no brown stain in your tighty whities...

 

[jimmyj]

And they say cats have 9 lives.

For me there is the standard stupid too much wieght in the loader on a slope and having it almost roll. Also, cutting a tree when the top broke off and fell towards me - in a panic I ran away to outrun the crown instead of running off on an angle.

Once a friend and I were doing backhoe work in the forest. The stabilizer feet were down and he was pulling a big stump. I was walking past and the one stabilizer foot slipped down into a big hole. The whole hoe (which was up so the bucket was about the height of my head) swung over and the bucket missed my head by no more than 2 feet. My freind and I just looked at each other for a minute and went "gulp."

Another time he and I were moving a huge rock from one farm to another and when he started driving down the sideroad we came to a hill. Well, the front end weight was too much and the rear tires of the hoe came up about 6 inches but no more. The hoe had to basically do a rear wheelie for about 80 feet before we thought to lower the loader and have the rock hit the road.

Then there was the time I hit my pants with the chain saw. Cut the coveralls and pants but not my leg.

My co-workers think I'm accident prone but they just do not understand how many "situations" rural life exposes a person to! LOL

 

[farmboy12]

My co-workers think I'm accident prone but they just do not understand how many "situations" rural life exposes a person to! LOL

Amen to that!


Kyle

 

[jake98]

We maybe should sub-divide this into..2..3 ..8.. closest I came to death..
Mine was in a hose factory. Me trained on applying tank truck hose materials to a 50' mandrel, but, not in the safe removal thereof.

I seen'em do it, an' I needed a mandrel... The way you get a new big hose off is you crack it loose first. I did that. but the air valve tecknique (is that how you spell it g?) is, there's a word for it...

I applied air and heard the whinning, and the product came off, when I did it, I was looking at the valve? I think my eyes should have been crossed, when the 2" hose w/wire went kabluie past my head and hit the backstop with a pooom. 27" f.m.h. 220 mph (that's my estimate) big bang.

so that's my scariest story that could be applied to a tractor moment for now.
jake

 

[Skerby]

on a beautiful bright summer day i started to work on my old simplicity mower. the engine was hard to start. hard enough in fact that i had to jump it with my car to cut the grass.. i figured i'd jump it and make adjustments to the carb until it sounded better and the engine rpms went up.. so after working on it and sitting down on the ground with my legs splayed a while i stood up and then realized the blades were spinning the whole time.. this just had me sitting there feeling lucky/thankful....

 

[jake98]

skurbu,

I tend to disbelieve on account of my simplicity. mine's a snow blower. not sure what you're talkin about with the pushing w/car...

grandpa's simplicity has started on the 1 or 2 pull for forty yrs.

ps what's with the commie avitar?

jake

 

[Airic]

Scariest Moment for me was when going down my back hill with a full front load of large rocks and a stick flipped up from a tire and knock my tractor out of gear. I was a newbe and only had 5 hours of seat time and the first reaction was brake. With a heavy load they did not help one bit. I maybe got up to about 10 mph with stones bouncing out of the bucket dodging them and trees on the way down. Made it through OK but, since learned to use my bucket or impletents as a brake rather than the brake itself. Brakes on a tractor seem pretty useless when weight and foward momentum is in play.

 

[jake98]

Scariest Moment for me was when going down my back hill with a full front load of large rocks and a stick flipped up from a tire and knock my tractor out of gear. I was a newbe and only had 5 hours of seat time and the first reaction was brake. With a heavy load they did not help one bit. I maybe got up to about 10 mph with stones bouncing out of the bucket dodging them and trees on the way down. Made it through OK but, since learned to use my bucket or impletents as a brake rather than the brake itself. Brakes on a tractor seem pretty useless when weight and foward momentum is in play.

Might we ask what you were driving (riding)? Bet it was large 2wd.

That's the bad thing about panic, it get's you to always hit the wrong pedal first...

Jake

 

[Rara Avis]

My point was more along the lines of seat belt on and ROPS up = no brown stain in your tighty whities...

Actually that's not quite right either...
Seat belt ON and ROPS UP = Alive to wash the stain out of your tighty whities...