Saw something scary

Farmall plowboy · Aug 21, 2018

Yesterday on the way home, saw a young man Bush hogging a steep slope and he had the fel arms all the way up, please be careful out there.

Mike Groom · Aug 21, 2018

We had a neighbor doing the same thing and the tractor tipped over,when they say to travel with the bucket low to the ground they mean it.Guess how they know!

oldtanker · Aug 21, 2018

(quoted from post at 07:16:23 08/21/18) Yesterday on the way home, saw a young man Bush hogging a steep slope and he had the fel arms all the way up, please be careful out there.

Heck I see older farmers here running tractors with a FEL up all the way all the time cause the loader blocks their view.......most of em old enough to know better.

Rick

Farmall plowboy · Aug 21, 2018

Only good thing to say about it was he wasn't playing with his cellphone!

PJH · Aug 21, 2018

My neighbor has a Ford tractor, don't know the model but small enough that he needs a ballast box on the back. He hires a custom operator to cut, tedd, rake and bale his hay in the heaviest bales I've ever seen. We often see this guy carrying one of those bales high enough that he can see under it. I have tried to tell him that loader loads should be kept low, but the information is not well received. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know!" There's a limit to what you can do about things like that. I've moved on to the "wait for the phone call" stage.

So far the only casualties have been a couple of failed cylinders.

Brian G. NY · Aug 21, 2018

(quoted from post at 15:16:23 08/21/18) Yesterday on the way home, saw a young man Bush hogging a steep slope and he had the fel arms all the way up, please be careful out there.

I'm an old man and I run my loader real low.....lots of times in my part of the country you need a "rock detector". LOL

JPK · Aug 21, 2018

I always take loaders off when doing other types of work with my tractors.
They block view and hard on front ends.

Phil in TN

rlp in Co. · Aug 21, 2018

A guy was loading my flat bed with a skid steer loader, 1800 pound bales. As he would aproach the trailer he would raise the bale. There was a little dip that tipped the skid steer forward and almost threw him out of the front. They had damaged the door long ago and threw it away. Ha ha. His shins hit and almost broke his legs but it kept him from being thrown out the front. Be careful out there. They don't put doors and seat belts on them for nothing. My Dad always said " machines don't have any feelings, and they can hurt you.

47fivewindow · Aug 21, 2018

You need more tractors, LOL

Kansasredneck · Aug 21, 2018

Saw a guy many years back approach a trailer with a load of bales held high. He was on a slope going down hill. Knocked the rack off the running gear and made quite a mess. Learned two things, keep it low and always approach going up hill.

Bret4207 · Aug 22, 2018

Sometimes I wonder if we'd let the idiots of the world have their own way and kill themselves off if we wouldn't have a brighter population. Not that I want anyone hurt, but ya gotta wonder sometimes if we aren't defying nature.

hd6gtom · Aug 22, 2018

Yep guy south of town was killed doing that, big bale raised all the way up so he could see under it, narrow front tractor rolled over on top of him.

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