"The" Un-Safe Tractor Operation Thread

[beppington]

beppington, if your rear wheels come off ground when FEL is chained down, it's a sign that you would benefit from more rear weight... would not only certainly let you get the max out your FEL lift capacity thus likely pulling more stuff up, but would be safer while doing it as well. You do want to let your tractor be all it can be, don't you:thumbsup:

Tires are already filled, just didn't have box blade or bush hog on the back.

 

[Danno1]

I couldn't find where one already exists, so maybe it'd be good to list what you've done with your tractor that isn't safe ... Maybe you still do it; Maybe you learned a lesson - Tell your story here!

There's a thread called dumb things I did w my tractor in (I think) Owning/Operating


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[soulasphil]

Reading about the problems of conscience you get with seat belts, I'm glad tractors sold in this country don't have seat belts. You get fined though if you don't use one in a car...

 

[jlsmith]

How about riding in the FEL tree trimming while your buddy drives you around the land. Also useing it to hang christmas lights around the house. Im guilty.:laughing:

 

[Reverend Blair]

Yeah, or standing in the FEL throwing bundles of shingles up on a roof.

Here's one I learned from my grandfather. Pull-starting one tractor with another while alone:

1. Chain tractor A to tractor B.
2. Place tractor B in gear.
3. Get on A and pull B until B starts.
4. Put A in neutral and jump off while it's rolling to a stop.
5. Run back and hop on B, get it in neutral and stop it.

Oddly enough, nobody was ever killed on my grandfather's farm.

 

[TripleR]

Yeah, or standing in the FEL throwing bundles of shingles up on a roof.

Here's one I learned from my grandfather. Pull-starting one tractor with another while alone:

1. Chain tractor A to tractor B.
2. Place tractor B in gear.
3. Get on A and pull B until B starts.
4. Put A in neutral and jump off while it's rolling to a stop.
5. Run back and hop on B, get it in neutral and stop it.

Oddly enough, nobody was ever killed on my grandfather's farm.

Ah, but we are not our grandfathers. How many of us could hand start an old John Deere by spinning the flywheel or hand crank one of the other models to life. They were truly a tough bunch that did things of which we can only imagine. My hat is off to them.

 

[Reverend Blair]

Ah, but I have performed that tractor-starting feat. I learned it from my grandfather, but he had this old Deutz with a bad starter and if it didn't start rolling down the hill, you still had to get it going.

And I have hand-cranked a Cockshutt 30 to life. It wasn't necessary, that being the tractor that always started, but we found the hand crank and just had to try it.

 

[TripleR]

Ah, but I have performed that tractor-starting feat. I learned it from my grandfather, but he had this old Deutz with a bad starter and if it didn't start rolling down the hill, you still had to get it going.

And I have hand-cranked a Cockshutt 30 to life. It wasn't necessary, that being the tractor that always started, but we found the hand crank and just had to try it.

I would wager you are in the minority.

I have also done this in my youth, but time and tide have taken their toll. I remember when we got our first car that didn't have a hand crank for backup, boy were we mad.

 

[slowzuki]

Guilty on:
-Not wearing seatbelt in cab tractor
-Use hst pedal all the time to help lining up implements
-Operator pressence bypassed (used to kill the machine in bumpy ground)
-Allowing passengers in cab (other tractor has a jump seat)
-On occasion using cruise control on hst while picking up square bales out of field my myself. We used to do that with the horses, they'd just plod along while we stacked.

 

[Don87]

My wife trimmed the rhododendron bush, while standing in the FEL, using a broom to operate the joystick, with no weight on back of tractor, and no fluid in the tires.
This was with the GC2410 I have now.

Does that classify as a 1 or 2 or 3 on the rating system?