The ?must be Monday ? picture got me to wondering- any one here ever roll a tractor over? I never have but my grandfather did- he was able to jump clear of it. I also have had neighbors tip over a loaded hay wagon but so far I haven?t done that either, although I have had a couple of wagon- related incidents over the years. Also had a neighbor flop a new round baler on its side trying to unload a bale on too steep of a side hill. Not trying to bring up bad memories for anyone who lost someone in such an accident.
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Came close one time. I was plowing and felt the uphill side of the tractor coming up. I stopped and called for help. We hooked a tractor to the left side of the front axle and then moved the plow tractor and plow away from that spot. Had a combine jump out of gear on the top of a drumlin while combining down hill. I gave serious thought of jumping out but was able to steer it onto the flat below. That combine had to be moving at 50 plus MPH as I went 500 feet in a matter of seconds.
tomstractorsandtoys
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I lost my Dad in a tractor roll over 20 years ago. He was spraying fence rows in a pasture with a hand gun and had a three point hitch sprayer on a narrow front tractor. The owner of the farm had wanted some firewood and had cut a dead tree down leaving a six or so inch stump. Dad was looking at the fence row and never seen it and with a half full tank of water the slosh rolled it very quickly.Dad always sprayed with the loader tractor that was a narrow front as he said it was already beat and scratched up.He always kept the loader low. Looking at the spot latter I think even a wide front would have went over.Dad also taught me that if you ever cut a tree cut it three feet high or cut it at ground level even if it means cutting it twice. I came very close to rolling my 3020 and loader clearing a fence row. The loader step caught on a rock. My loader tractor now has a roll guard. Tom
47fivewindow
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- Location
- Davidsonville Md.
My Dad borrowed the neighbors new Cub to try out cultivating and let me ride along. He turned sharply on hill and over it went. I was pinned under the cultivator but unhurt. Scared the Ole Man so bad that he picked up that Cub enough for me to get out. This is one of my earliest memories. Needless to say we didn't buy a Cub.
greenmech
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- Location
- Lakeville MN
I was unloading a F-12 Farmall when the ramp slipped out on one side. I jumped free and the tractor laid on it's side still running. Pulled it back upright and all was well. Ron MN
Loosehandle
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- Location
- Wisconsin
Had a gravity wagon of soybeans tip over, big mess.
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
Knock on wood never rolled one but have come close a couple times,I think running tractors on hill/mountain land regularly makes drivers more aware and constantly looking for problem areas.
JoeM(GA)
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Rolled my Dad?s MF-135 back in the early 70?s, was bush hogging for a neighbor, dropped a rear tire in an abandoned dug well, over we went, Dad had it back at the dealer the next day to have a roll bar installed. Left a lasting impression on me with that bush hog running upside down. Thankful it went over kinda slow and I just stepped off as I met the ground. Little damage, except to my pride.
WAYNE-N-TEXAS
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I was loading a 450 JD doser the left track slipped but the right one caught as I was leaving the ramps to the trailer. Off I went but the roll cage hit ground and it stopped on it's side, still running. Just a big bump on my elbow. Took a backhoe put it back on the tracks. Loaded it an left for the job for a friend.
casecollectorsc
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- Location
- E central SD.
Pin broke and rolled a trailer full of wheat...no fun.
newhollandnut
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Knock on wood never a tractor. I?ve laid a cat backhoe on its side and laid a Mack Tri axle over. The backhoe was stupidity the Mack was a little stupidity and a little human error. I was hauling probably a half mile and dumping on a very slight slope but I didn?t realize the guy running the excavator loaded me really heavy on the passenger side. I didn?t even get the bed up a quarter of the way when it took off. We had two identical Mack?s where i used to work and both of them had been laid over at least twice. I?m not sure what the deal was but they definitely got a reputation for laying over
rossow (mn)
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Never rolled one, but when I was a kid the neighbor on the next farm tipped one over in the drainage ditch and was seriously injured. He survived but took a long time to recover. My father used to farm as close as possible to the same drainage ditch, and I worried. I also worried when he mowed the road ditches with a row-crop Oliver at a precarious angle.
When I was a kid running a Farmall A in a hay field with a side hill I was always afraid of rolling over the tractor. Now when I look at the same area those hills were nothing that would have come close to rolling a tractor. I guess I have always been skiddish of getting into areas that could potentially make one roll over.
MARK ROBKE
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I have rolled quad runners more times than I can count,but not a tractor. My younger brother on the other hand, has rolled a dump truck with salt in the bed and a snow plow, turned a p/u with snow plow and salt spreader completely up side down-hanging from the seat belt- and a small mower tractor. But luckily never injured. He's actually a very good operator-icy roads got him twice while barely moving, and the tractor was unfamiliar to him : it was a hydro and his instinct was to hit the clutch pedal,which it did not have! All of these happened long ago. Mark.
Oliver 500 Wa
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I put mine on it's side in a drainage ditch. Plowing a small field for a friend and got too close to the ditch and the edge gave way. Actually happened kind of slowly or at least that's how it seems in my mind. I just held on tight until it stopped. Called a tow company and described the situation and they sent out a regular tow truck. The operator hooked up a couple cables from the boom and pulled it right up and out. He had more trouble driving across the fresh furrows than the doing the recovery. Cost $125 IIRC. Drove it back home and banged out the tin a bit and that's pretty much it.
No, but have worked on hills quite a bit given the terrain here. Some areas are downright scary to work on. My good friend and farmer worked these lands for over 50 years, never rolled a tractor, but I know of one hay wagon rolled over with his son in it stacking,(no injuries) and him finding an old cistern on the very top of a field with a tractor and mower conditioner, needed a crane to hoist it up, surprisingly little damage.
Worst thing I can think of here on this farm was one of the help somehow managed to freewheel down the hill I live on while spreading manure with a JD 2010 wide front & with a loader. This somehow ended up on the 2nd floor of the larger of our 2 barns, spreader hanging off the back. That part of the barn was framed with heavier timber floor joists like an industrial building of the era would have been, very strong. I barely remember this, was very young, but distinctly recall the hole it made in the barn. To this day I still cannot reckon with how this is even possible to have happened.
Worst thing I can think of here on this farm was one of the help somehow managed to freewheel down the hill I live on while spreading manure with a JD 2010 wide front & with a loader. This somehow ended up on the 2nd floor of the larger of our 2 barns, spreader hanging off the back. That part of the barn was framed with heavier timber floor joists like an industrial building of the era would have been, very strong. I barely remember this, was very young, but distinctly recall the hole it made in the barn. To this day I still cannot reckon with how this is even possible to have happened.
Farmer Rock
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Thankfuly not,but have come very close on an old massey backhoe doing loader work,and since all the weight is on the back it very unstable going up hill.also i almost ran over my dad once when we where stretching fence on a very steep hillside,pop was unhooking strap from tie front weight bracket on the 585,so i started backing up the hill,and it slipped out gear and pop was probably 8ft away by the time i stopped,with his back turned.i am so thankful the Lord took the wheel,because it happened so fast.so be sure and stay safe.
fixerupper
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The wide front saved me from laying over the loader tractor once. I usually carried a 1300 pound cement weight on the three point and I was accustomed to the stability it gave the tractor. This time the weight was off the tractor and I had the bucket high carrying a long tree that sagged down to the ground on each end. The left wheel came up but when the front end hit the stop the tractor quit tipping. I was off the seat standing on the loader bracket ready to jump but didn't have to jump. Lowering the loader back down brought the rear wheel down to the ground again. Dad laid a Deere A with a Caswell loader on it. The rear wheels were set in narrow for plowing he had the loader up higher because he was along a fence. He was plowing, the right rear wheel was in the furrow and the left wheel went up over a rock and over he went. HE said it laid over on it's side real slow. Nothing hurt except battery acid coming out of the batteries and engine oil coming out of the breather. The A was an ANH with 42" rear rubber, single front wheel and long axles. He traded that tractor for a regular row crop A in 1951.
chuck machinist
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When I was about 13, I was hauling a load of hay up the lane with a Ford 6000, front end started wobbling, theSplined steering shaft coupling Pin snapped, and she rolled hard to the left. I dove off the right fender clear of the tractor. I still have dreams about that incident today at 65 years old. CM
Tgrasher
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- Location
- South Southern illinois
Ever had a paper clip on a rubber band - stretch it watch it twirl. Was on a David Brown chained/cabled between a semi-trailer with log racks loaded and a Timber Jack log skidder trying to pull the trailer up a hill. Nothing damaged but a whole lot smarter.
jon f mn
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No tractors, but dad ripped several gravity boxes on the side picking corn. He would get the slanted part full and turn on the end on a hil and over they would go. I tipped two anhydrous tanks on the side, both times was after I switched from wide rows to narrow and forgot about the narrow tanks being tippy. Both time turning on a side hill.
flying belgian
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Not a tractor but I was spraying a meadow on an unfamiliar farm I had just rented. I have one of those Hahn highboy 3 wheeled sprayers. Back wheel drove up on a hidden rock about the size of a wheel barrow. Sprayer went up and teetered but when the solution sloshed back it stayed right side up. Lucky because had I survived I would have had to deal with 200 gallons of round up spilled in the city limits of North Mankato.
farmerjohn
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Had two rollovers within three miles of home that I can recall, both elderly farmers. One survived, one didn?t.
Ohio88
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- Location
- Fairborn, Ohio
Rolled a Super77, bailed off the back. Scary.
Tracy Brown
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Not a tractor but I layer my Wrangler front end loader over on its side and I turned my excavator bottom side up in a ditch.
My grandfather on my dad's side was just telling us a story about that after we found an old picture of him on an H. He and his father were bailing or loading hay in the mid to late 40s. Pop (my Dad's father) was on the wagon and Pop's Dad, Edgar, was pulling the wagon with a fairly new Farmall H. They farmed on some steep hills that Pop said "should have only been farmed with horses". They were stopped up on the hill, Pop on the wagon, when the tractor started rolling down the hill. Edgar ran after it for a while but the tractor and wagon kept picking up speed. Pop yelled for him to quit for fear he'd fall and be ran over. The tractor rode down to the bottom of the hill and flipped. He said they repaired it, as tractors were still hard to get after the war, but he said it never was right after that and they later sold it. We sat there for a little, absorbing the story when someone asked "Wait, where were you then while the tractor and wagon rolled? Did you jump off?". Matter-of-factly Pop just said "Oh no, I was on the wagon". He rode it the whole way. Somehow he came out unscathed.
J.Wondergem
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- Location
- Rockford, Mi.
Not a tractor, but a team of horses and a load of hay. I was about 5 years old playing out in the yard, heard a bunch of racket coming down the hill. The neighbor boys were up the road loading hay and coming back home. Later We found out the britchin broke and the wagon ran into the horses and they came down the road stretched out. When they got to the driveway they turned and the wagon, load of hay with John and Ted on top went flying across the garden. They were yelling at the top of their lungs, Hay was flying, wood was flying and so was the boys. The horses broke loose, went through the gate into the pasture and over the hill. Boys got up and went to the house. I don't think they were hurt. Their Dad found the horses after he got home from work. Banged up a little. The wagon and harnesses was totally destroyed.
olgentdc
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Ithasbeen 10 yrs since i turned on over , So i hope i am not due.. Rolled over on its side Yanmar 2220, Massey 1010,and a Massey 210. All little Compacts with loaders ,Every time i was in reverse GOING SLOW .thinking this could go bad ...watch youraz!..LOL . The little 1010 threw me in the pond , (well I Jumped there). I have flipped Gravity flows half full and loaded behind a pikup on these gravel narrow roads we had here until 20 yrs ago . Someone comes flying at ya around the blind corner and there is no place to GO except to take a ditch or kill them if you Hit them ..lost a load of hay more than once too . Things have changed alot since 30 yrs ago . The Girls around here used to drive like hale.And Yes , It was always a female not paying attention and taking the whole road for granted.
Had a nephew roll a WFE 826 IH in a ditch. He went off the road to avoid a car. Driver stopped and it was confirmed. His brother, broke both wrist rolling a 560 Farmall WFE turning too fast. Flat ground paved road at that. Saw the same nephew lift the back wheels off the ground on one side of a 1566 IH turning too fast off the highway onto my farm. Had a neighbor back in the early 70's roll a narrow front JD that killed him. Another guy I knew killed himself on a NF Farmall H going down hill, baler and part way loaded wagon. But that was stupidity.
Rick
Rick
I feel like the luckyist guy on here, by a miracle im still here, angels and the good lord watching over me.i was loading a couple tractors on my gooseneck trailer, after a local show. drove myshepard sd3 up the ramps backwards, ground was wet tires were spinning, drove back down, put in faster reverse, got it up there that time, up to front, broken board in deck, back tire in rut, shucks it wont go any where? didn't chain down, went to get other tractor, a hart parr 18-27 single front wheel, drove it on, next to sheppard, back of trailer went down,(parked on slight incline), sheppard started rolling into me (hart parr has clutch on right side to add to confusion). rest is a blurr, I remember thinking to jump clear, that didn't happen, ended upside down in seat, knees up to my chest, couldnt wiggle out tho, my friend was watching, came over and turned the seat to one side, and I got out of there. the sheppard went over the other side of trailer. a series of small mistakes, lead to major castrophe. one, I have a winch on trailer that should have been used,2, should have chained the first tractor down before loading the second tractor. 3 I should found a more level spot to load. my friend thought I was dead! I ended up with bruised ribs, but nothing else. we tipped the tractors back over with another tractor I had there, went home to do chores. my wifes mother had died that day so I went home to listen to my wife upset about that before I could tell her about my accident. for her It didn't sinkin till couple days later
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