If you can capture the adrenaline rush of having your loader full and up too high while you are slowly backing up (sideways on the side of a hill), and suddenly realize your right rear tire is 12 inches off the ground, I think you'd have a surefire winner.
Especially when, even if you stop, you see the tire is moving further off the ground in kind of a slow arc. Finally, you throw your body weight to that side of the tractor and the tire stops coming up. Backing up is what made it come up, so going forward will make the tire touch the ground again, right? NO! It comes up even FURTHER!
Think quick! What will make it stop? You know that dumping your load on top of your BRAND NEW FENCE will kill the fence but probably get you out of the jamb you're in. With nothing else to lose, you release the bucket and watch your fence sag with the weight, all the firewood you've just spent the last 30 minutes cutting, splitting and loading goes rolling off down the hill. But, the rear tire *finally* drops down and you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Now back up again *very* slowly and get the tractor facing up the hill. Pick up your sagging fence and get it back into shape enough to keep the sheep from escaping. Start gathering up your firewood and resolve to not try that again for a good while.
Scenario number #2:
Different tractor, same hill. Hill is really just a driveway 1/4 mile long with a 30 degree slope to it. Peanuts, really. OK, so this is just a lawn tractor -- you know, the kind that has the brake and clutch on the same pedal? So, you're coming down the driveway with a trailer hauling a 200lb load of driveway patch.
You get going a tad bit too fast for the engine to stop you, so you hit the brakes. The tires skid for a few seconds, then let go. Now you're doing about 10mph -- a bit too fast to just jump, and you don't really want to send $2,000 worth of equipment down the ravine on the edge of the driveway. But, there's a field at the end of the driveway (across a 55mph road). It has a 10 ft deep creek running along side it, but there is an access point 30 feet down the main road that you think you can hit. By the time you realize this, you're going 15mph and still gaining speed. You're pushing that brake pedal as hard as you can, never stopping to think that if you let off, the engine might slow you down better than the non-working brakes.
By the time you cross the road, you're doing 20mph plus, and there is essentially no steering control, so you have to jump part of the creek. You almost make it across, but the front tires catch, making the lawn tractor do a nice little flip or two with you on it. You wake up with it laying on top of you (all 500 lbs of it) and try to crawl out. It's still running, so you shut it off, flip it back over. Then you twist the misshapen metal trailer back into shape, adrenaline coursing through your blood. Finally, you pick up the bags of asphalt patch and your tools and load them back up into the trailer.
As you start up the lawn tractor and begin the drive back up the hill, you realize that your back will be hurting like the dickens in a few hours, so while you are feeling no pain, you fill in the holes and tamp them down flat. You get done just as your back starts really killing you, head back up the hill with said tractor, put it away, and just go lie down for a few days.
Hey, at least now you have an excuse to buy a *real* tractor and you have a nice bruise on your leg in the shape of a steering wheel to show off to your virtual friends...
