Hey Mel????

I knew Willy backed my ol Case into Your Wife's G in Waterloo but I did not know the extent of the damage!!!!---Tee

Picture I took of Delores's G 1 hour after Willy backed into it---

Picture your lawyer sent me to show alleged damage!!!! As black as the oil looks I think it needed a oil chance anyway!!---Tee

Now thats pretty sad there TEE. Lawyer's picture don't show all the damage and then there is Dolore's personal stress that we will factor into this deal. How many acres do you own? Lawyer likes making land deals.
I waved when we went by your place today but you didn't even look. Was on our way back from Mason MI pull. Did ok with the big G. 4 1sts, 2 thirds and a second. Tim drove Dolore's G in the 5900 3 mph jackpot pull Fri. night and won it for $200.

Dolores and I raced to the end but she won. I think I spotted her a little to much track to catch up to her.

Good job by the whole family! I read Bob D's posts. The Gs did good!--Congratulations. I saw you go by and waved but You had your head against the window and were sleeping and didn't see me--Do you always drool when you sleep????? I have NO $$$$ or land but have a couple of blue silos you can have! See Ya---Tee

good grief, I hope everyone is ok!!! Ive seen this happen before, and the driver didnt fair well at all. Think hes got plastic legs now Ive read in the archives and seen that there are some physics majors on here who say that once a pulling tractor comes over center of the hook chain, it has to come back down and this is impossible! ive seen it with my own eyes and know better, now all you have as well! In the case I witnessed, the man was on a farmall M, pulling off the stock U bar. The wheelie bars on that M were attached directly to the U bar!!!! during the pull the bottom brackets underneath the axle broke, and the top ones held, that hitch bent up and ended up about under his seat, his wheelie bars and all!!! that condition pulled the tractor right over backwards from an approx 48 hitch height the man slid back out of the seat so fast he couldnt push the clutch in. You mind if I ask how this happened? I pray that no one was hurt, but I am very curious of the circumstances

That was a picture Tee put up just to rib me some. I don't know anything about it but Tee might. I saw an Oliver stand up on it's back wheels at Sigourney couple years ago. If I
remember right his hitch broke and the top adjusters were on the axle centerline. When it broke it went straight up. The guy managed to hang on and clutched it but when it
came down his foot slipped off the clutch and it reared up again. He was pretty lucky. The wheelie bars didn't hold the tractor or were designed wrong. There is a You Tube
video of it happening out there some where. Saw a couple do wheel stand this weekend in MI. Sled pulled real hard starting out and if you clutched it to fast it stood up. About
threw the one guy off his A JD. Broke a wheelie bar and pulled the hitch cover loose from the rear end. Good point to discuss though. Mel

The damage to Dolores's G was pretty minimal. Just bent the rod we use to hold the weights on but can't let Tee off to easy.

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Ah ok MSD, I thought one of yours buds or the mentioned Dolores was the driver of the pictured tractor. I actually just saw that same picture on the beer money pulling page on FaceBook the other day anyways Im sure Glad none of you guy were underneath of it ! The event I saw was pretty hairy. Really feel sort of bad about it, since I was the flag man! but i know it wasnt my fault. So anyhow I was trackside, holding the red flag, and I saw that wheelie bar/hitch combo folding up under his M. I flagged him off right away, but he wasnt looking at me just then, and that damned U bar bent up so fast and high,he just slid right back out the seat! He had no chance to push the clutch in, and I doubt he could have done it even if he stayed on the seat. That M turned over so fast it was unbelievable If the nose hadnt landed on the stack of cement blocks behind it, and/or hed of stayed in the seat, he woulda been as dead as a doornail. Then there he was legs pinned underneath, screaming like maimed soldier in a war movie. His was M running full throttle in gear, upside down on top of him til one of us was brave enough to hit the kill switch, and then about 10 of us managed to push the tractor up off of him and onto its side, and the town fireman strapped him on a board and hauled him off to the ER. This was years ago, and he can walk with just a slight limp by now. He still runs one of the local antique pulling clubs in NY, not far from me, but hes too spooked to get back in the seat, dont blame him. If we arent safe at our pulls, and we have enough accidents like that, you can kiss our sport goodbye. The local FD never hosted that pull again Friend of mine just sent me that same picture actually, just tonight. He asked me about a pull he had been to down south of us recently, that didnt require wheelie bars and how could that be a good idea?. Some real smart physics major guys on the internet, seen their posts on here, have said its impossible and wheelie bars arent needed for stock tractors, I say horse manure! I guess my point is that we all have to be safe, this stuff is for fun and its not worth getting hurt over. The man I saw maimed and nearly killed, he could have come out it fine if his wheelie bars were separate to the tractor, instead of bolted to his hitch. Then when his hitch broke as it did, the bars would have held him up just fine while the hitch broke, and it wouldnt have been any more than an inconvenience, rather than a near deadly accident. The wheelie bars on my own tractors could hold up a mack truck, but I sure cant say the same about the stuff some others have on their tractors. Sorry to talk everyones ear off, but I thought it oughta be heard, happy holidays gentlemen