Weirdest close call with-OUT tragic results

[FritzII]

I decided to push an old 275 gallon oil tank sideways down hill toward my garage. I was going to cut it in half and get rid of it. It caught something and rolled over. No problem I thought until it rolled over again, this time a little faster. When it rolled the 3rd time, I jambed the tractor into hi range and passed it up. I pulled in front of it and let it roll into the hoe to stop it. It was rolling straight towards my new truck. I'm not exactly sure how many times it rolled over, but it rolled about 60 ft before I got it stopped.

 

[fishmen222]

35 years ago when I was thirteen, I worked on a friend of my dads farm baling hay every summer in Rockbridge county VA. Used an old Farmall tricycle for cutting, raking and moving trailers to the barn. Would not have traded the experience for anything except one that I will never forget. Had a hitch on the three point that I unknowingly used instead of the lower permanent one to move a full nine stack bale trailer. Now Rockbridge is in the middle of the Blue Ridge mountains, and flat land does not exist up there. Started going up a steep hill and up comes the front of the tractor. So here I was staring at sky and did not want to stop or rear brake to steer for fear of losing momentum and sliding backwards. I jumped off only to see the tractor continue on up. Did not want to get in trouble either, so I jumped back on and crawled up on the hood (like my skinny butt was really going to bring the front down). Burnt my hands on the stack, but it finally made it to the top in one piece. Learned a lot about leverage and pivot points that day that I have never forgotten. In hindsight, I also have learned alot about safety since.

 

[Combustix]

Was moving logs with my grapple next to the pond which was fortunately dry at the time, when I hit reverse and went right over an edge which was a little vertical indent in the pond. I remember the weird feeling as the tractor was moving backwards and down while the front was going vertical. It came to rest like a teeter totter balanced on a rear and opposite front wheel. I jumped off then and with my hand on the grapple could rock the tractor back and forth. Any way got it pulled out with the truck. I look a lot more backing up and start out slowly

 

[Todd727]

The driver, a company salesman, immediatley pulled to the berm, visibly shaken... He wasn't the only one....!!

I offered to call the Ohio Highway Patrol, to make about a report, to get his car repaired, but he refused... He was just happy it did not hit a nano second later. Me too... Both our guardian angles were with us that day...

Awesome typo for this story.

 

[DJ54]

Awesome typo for this story.

LOL..., Yep, the Angels had the angles figured right that day...!!

 

[acme97]

My closest pucker event was on my L35 TLB. I have a special lock that is suppose to secure the controls so that it's more difficult to steal. I was digging stumps on a part of the front property once. Instead of taking it back home, I left it in the field with the outriggers down, backhoe down and extended, and the FIL down. Put the lock on and went home. Next day got up went to work and didn't think anything about it. Came home and went to do some more digging. I jumped up on the machine hit the key and before I knew what was happening the backhoe lifted the whole back up about 3 feet off the ground! I was thrown on the steering wheel looking down and a steep angle over the hood. I immediately killed the tractor and stayed very, very still. The thing was ballanced on the bucket of the backhoe, and FIL. I carefully took out the lock key and removed the lock. Then I was able to lower the unit back down to the ground. Learned my lesson that day! Double check everything.

 

[Daronspicher]

About 35 years ago when I was a kid, was riding in a 510 MF combine with my grandpa, 18 ft wheat head on it.

We were headed down the high grade gravel road, down a pretty big hill. About that time, my aunt (probably about 18 at the time) was driving a ford grain truck back to the field. Apparently the need to hold speed to make it up that hill without stopping or stalling overrode her thoughts about us not having anywhere we could go with the combine to get over so there was room for her to get by us.

All in some flash, she made it past us, but at that same time, my grandpa was able to slow/stop the combine... But the last of that stopping effort was feet on the dual brake pedals, too much on the right side.

The right front tire planted while the combine rotated to face the canyon off our right side. Rear wheels went way high in the air and for 20 or 30 seconds we teetered there looking at about 80 feet of drop off until the rear started slowly back to the ground.

Once it was back down we gently reversed back to straight on the road and slowly continued on our way to get new underwear.

Later, my aunt couldn't recall even meeting us along the way. Totally out to lunch on the whole incident.

Till now I can fully replay the entire scene in my mind.

 

[MasseyWV]

About 5 years ago, while mowing the edges of my driveway, I went over a steep (60 degree slope) embankment... backwards. I was in a hurry and got a little too close to the edge while turning around, then over she went, with me holding on for dear life. Thankfully, the mower stayed upright and I stopped about 10 feet down after I hit a tree, but had I went much farther, things would have been very different.

After it was over, I realized that I had nearly lost my left foot to the spinning blades under the mowing deck. My shoe had a huge gash in it from the blades, but no real damage was done.

Oh, and I needed new underwear too.

 

[whitedogone]

Not something I did....But.... my ex boss decided to take a FULL hayrack of special needs kids on a hayrack ride with his little JD 790 something (not sure of the model). He started down graveled hill and found out real quick that applying brakes only compounded the problem. His little tractor was pushed sideways down the hill faster and faster by the loaded hayrack. He and the wagon were airboune by the time they reached the base of the hill. When he got her stopped, he jumped off the tractor to check for casualities; only to find all the special needs kids laughing and wanting to do it again.

 

[Qapla]

My brother called me to ask if I could "lend him a hand - he needed some help".

He had been working with the TLB in the ditch along the front of our property near his house. I went up to his house from mine (we live closer to the back of the property and cannot see his house from ours). When I got there I found the tractor "stuck" in the ditch. Actually, it wasn't stuck as in the mud ... it was balanced on right front tire and the left rear tire and would not move. He had no idea just how he had done that and couldn't figure out how to get it out.

One side of this ditch is quite steep and the other is slanted. The entire ditch in only about 5' deep and about 10' wide. But, with the tractor balanced the way it was, it could not be driven out of the space.

It took a bit of lifting and squirming with both buckets before I could get enough tires on the ground to drive it out on the sloped side.

He hasn't taken the tractor into the ditch since.