Tractor Safety

S10Vette · Dec 3, 2016

From a OS-4 manual I found in a shed

Bob Harvey · Dec 3, 2016

Probly a pic of Bryce Fraser.

MARK ROBKE · Dec 3, 2016

My 300u manual has that pic too!Mark

Adirondack case guy · Dec 3, 2016

Think you are rite. Casey on his mind.
Loren

gab · Dec 3, 2016

When I was a little kid and over at the machine shed I'd pull the manuals out of the refrigerator and look at the comics, same as your book.

Bryce Frazier · Dec 3, 2016

Oh come on now!! Her hair don't look like that?!!? Been thinking about it all day!!

MT RON · Dec 3, 2016

I almost learned the hard way,I was 12 years old and headed out to the field to plow with an 8n and 2 bottom plow.We had a short hill to go down into a draw so I thought it a good idea to kick it out of gear and let it roll.At a certain speed the fluid in the tires starts to go round with the tires causing a massive imbalance.I think the rear wheels were actually coming off the ground and I knew better than put on the brakes cause I think thatwould have thrown me sideways and rolled over,I just hung on and rode it out.I was one scared kid and I never told my Dad about it.

Stephen Newell · Dec 3, 2016

The only time I ever unexpectedly dropped a wheel in a hole I wasn't day dreaming it was a hollow created by an animal and the ground collapsed. The tractor all but turned over and I could have easily put it in reverse and backed out except I was on a John Deere tractor and some idiot put some device in the seat that turned the tractor off if you aren't completely sitting in the seat. I leaned so far to the left trying to counterbalance the tractor I couldn't back out. Seat belted in I couldn't get the belt loose leaning like I was to get off that tractor so I had to sit there for nearly an hour until the family found me and helped me. Sooner or later safety devices are going to kill me.

2x4 · Dec 4, 2016

did that with my JD 350 dozer once, only I was thinking about lunch. Blade up, tracking straight downhill in a meadow & suddenly laying on my side, trying not to fall onto the still-spinning track. A deep narrow gully had washed out but was covered by high grass & the dozer just rolled into it. Tied a chain to a friends jeep & that held me from tipping over further while the dozer climbed out of the gully.

S10Vette · Dec 4, 2016

(quoted from post at 20:42:33 12/03/16) I almost learned the hard way,I was 12 years old and headed out to the field to plow with an 8N............I was one scared kid and I never told my Dad about it.

Ron- Amazing what we survived back in the day. Most of it seems to happen around age 12 or so which was probably when our dads thought we were old enough to get turned loose alone with machinery. I almost got crushed by a cattle chute that I was towing with the tow chain up at midpoint instead of down by the skids and it upended and landed on the tractor seat. Another time crossing a dry creek with a D2 and Disc Harrow, I almost went over backwards trying to climb the bank, figured out I needed to back it up, but then had to spend a half hour winching the disc harrow up the bank.

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