Ultradog MN
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Bern
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- Mount Vernon, WA
Wow! That guy is lucky to be alive!
Zeke Boniface
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Yeesh!
Last night a friend told about watching a video of a man getting electrocuted, the video was part of the training his company required of electricians working there.Forty years later and he still lives and remembers.
Zeke B.
Last night a friend told about watching a video of a man getting electrocuted, the video was part of the training his company required of electricians working there.Forty years later and he still lives and remembers.
Zeke B.
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Ultradog MN
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[i:654c4848f0]"I guess he could have been holding the
running chain saw in his lap for greater
thrills?"[/i:654c4848f0]
ROFL
running chain saw in his lap for greater
thrills?"[/i:654c4848f0]
ROFL
Mike(NEOhio)
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Lucky boy. I watched it ten times trying to figure what sucked him under the truck. The log on the left wheel came around and pushed him.
The other thing no one commented on is using logs like that to get it out. There is no better video demonstrating the consequences when it goes wrong, like it did on this person. I tried this method once, with an 850 ford, the difference being it has a loader on it. The front end would not come up, but would easily if it had no loader. It did not work after numerous attempts and I decided it was a worthless method to use in this situation. What did work effectively was a small diameter tree behind the tractor and a $88.00 H-F chain hoist with a line rigged to the base of that tree. It pulled it right out when nothing else would. They would have been better off doing the same, using the logs to make a deadman post or series of posts into the ground angled the opposite direction to rig something off and pull at the draw bar.
Without enough front weight, R.O.P.S., and a seat with a belt, tying logs to the rear wheels can easily have the same result as shown here. I lost a friend to this kind of accident over the summer, difference was the tractor and him pulling on a tree stump. Completely avoidable, but it happened and he is gone forever.
People get complacent and get killed or severely injured because they don't think these things out. They just hook a line and start pulling with no consideration of the consequences, which will be severe and final when it likely goes wrong !
Without enough front weight, R.O.P.S., and a seat with a belt, tying logs to the rear wheels can easily have the same result as shown here. I lost a friend to this kind of accident over the summer, difference was the tractor and him pulling on a tree stump. Completely avoidable, but it happened and he is gone forever.
People get complacent and get killed or severely injured because they don't think these things out. They just hook a line and start pulling with no consideration of the consequences, which will be severe and final when it likely goes wrong !
ptfarmer
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Messed up a good Ford tractor over a stuck Dodge truck no less. Found these on another site.
Sean in PA
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I don't pull much in the way of anything real heavy or stuck anyway, just small stumps of a few inches or less, but when I do it I run the chains under the rear axle and connect them to the loader frame in front of the rear axle. That way the chains are actually pulling down on the frame in front of the rear axle. Hard to get the front wheels off the ground with the main pulling force pulling down in front of the rear axle.
Fordfarmer
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It was on facebook a couple days ago. He's very lucky - only got bruised a little. Tractor wasn't even his - belongs to his father or FIL, I forget which.
Of, course.
An experienced operator disengages the clutch well before the tractor rears up. Such operator also uses the tractors lowest gear in such situation, especially with such enormously lengthy logs chained to the rear wheels.
BTDT.
Dean, who rode motorcycles for decades, and who has dumped a few....
An experienced operator disengages the clutch well before the tractor rears up. Such operator also uses the tractors lowest gear in such situation, especially with such enormously lengthy logs chained to the rear wheels.
BTDT.
Dean, who rode motorcycles for decades, and who has dumped a few....
Without the added traction of the logs, the tractor would not have reared up with the chain connected to the drawbar.
One wonders how the operator managed to get the truck so badly buried in the first place, and if anyone was operating truck during the towing operation....
Dean
One wonders how the operator managed to get the truck so badly buried in the first place, and if anyone was operating truck during the towing operation....
Dean
riveroadrat
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Definitely worth the price of a wrecker. He had it buried before hooking the tractor to it. Young and no foresight creates a lot of problems in all areas of life. It gave me enough trouble.
I used to think that, but several of the bigger wrecker companies here in the rural areas have invested in a skid steer, and a big winch on the
front, 500 feet of cable. Take the skidsteer to where you can, set the winch/ blade down, hook up, and pull.
I hear they don't do that work for free......
Paul
front, 500 feet of cable. Take the skidsteer to where you can, set the winch/ blade down, hook up, and pull.
I hear they don't do that work for free......
Paul
toolgarage
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Buried my 5600 up to the belly in mud without another tractor to pull it out. Picked up a 9,000 lb electric winch and mounted it to a drawbar - connected the power to the battery, put the tractor in neutral, and tied to the closest tree... It was out in about 30 seconds - no backflip acrobatics needed....
BushogPapa
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I had just got back from VietNam and was back on the Volunteer Fire Dept...got a call about an over-turned tractor.
It was a Ford I think a 5000.. front hood of the tractor resting on the truck front, driver still sitting in the seat, just as if he were still driving it..
The fuel tank had crushed his skull... The others lifted the tractor front while I pulled the body out from under it...
Remember: IF it KILLS ya, you WILL STAY DEAD..
BE More than Careful....be SAFE..!
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