Tractor rules? - newbie

[DGS]

If you have your tires frozen in the ground use reverse in the lowest range that the machine will do.
When the power is applied it will force the front down instead of lifting the front up.
It will usually break yhe rear tires free.
If it doesent you are really really stuck and you should get another machine to assist getting you moving again.
I learned this from an old timer and he said it was the only safe way to do this.
Makes sense to me.
DGS

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( When the power is applied it will force the front down instead of lifting the front up.
It will usually break your rear tires free. )</font>
Yep, the old equal and opposite reaction thingy.

If they are that stuck, washing around them with a water hose should melt the ice enough to repeat your process and be safe.
John

 

[lcorrell]

Thanks for the replies. Yes, the tractor is a gas engine, and no it does not have a ROPS. I will probably make my own ROPS for it soon. I love welding and making things out of metal. The tractor says on the tag that it is 25hp. I too have seen differing info on the HP. Some say the foreign tractors were rated at PTO HP, some say not. I have seen 27hp at the engine listed on the web. I have also seen them rated at 22hp - so who knows. The wheels are already set wide and it is a fairly short tractor, so hopefully it is pretty stable on the hills.

I just wanted to make sure there weren't any gotcha's with tractors. I blew up two used riding mowers before someone told me you were supposed to run them at full throttle all the time or they would overheat. Since they were used, I didn't have an owners manual to tell me that.

 

[jd2210]

In my province I'm sure it won't be long before we are required to have a tractor licence to operate one. For just about everything else there is and they are enforced by the Ministry of Labor. my wallet? class G (passenger cars), class A (big trucks with air ticket endorsement), class c (coach bus), clas m (motorcycle licence, but I'm only a M2 which means I need to go back again in 2 to 5 years and take it AGAIN), skidder licence, slasher licence, haulage truck licence, excavator licence, dozer licence, snowmachine licence (which I only technically needed between when I got it and 16 years old, that one I'm actually very glad they make kids take), boat licence, service truck licence (yeah I'm not making that one up) and believe it or not I also need a pneumatic tools licence, and a torching licence (oh sorry its a cutting torch licence)just to drive the service truck.

And oh yeah, those dozer and excavator licences are only good if I'm operating them while building a logging road, not if I'm in a gravel pit, because that is "surface mining" which apparently requires a completely different set of skills to do that build a bush road. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[SailorBob]

You guys are licensed to death. Those licenses are just another excuse for more taxes.

However I suppose that licensing kids to operate dangerous equipment is a good idea as long as the license requirements include some training and testing to make sure they are competent to use it. I am beginnig to think that 4 wheelers should definitely be licensed. I see kids running down the highways on them all the time and they never wear helmets. Of course enforcement would be a major problem.

Ok I am off my soap box now.

 

[daTeacha]

Any motorized vehicle except farm machinery on the roads in Ohio needs lights and license, 4 wheelers included. The drivers also need a license and younger ones need helmets for bikes and 4 wheelers. The kids have a nasty habit of totally disregarding any "rules of the road" basically through ignorance.

However, getting back on topic, the primary rule of tractor ownership is this --"Buy as many as you can afford, then buy one more" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Reg]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( "Backflips when tires are frozen to the ground was another surprise for me"

I read about this kind of accident when I bought my 670 four years ago. The one I read about was a farmer operating a larger utility tractor in Iowa (if I recall correctly). The tractor had been left in a field. When started the next day, the farmer put it in a forward gear and the machine just rotated around the axle. The tires had frozen to the ground.

That's a heck of a thing, isn't it? )</font>

Backflips are also POSSIBLE when driving a tractor FORWARDS onto a trailer.
Somewhere, probably on this site, there is a strong recommendation to only ever back a tractor onto a trailer.