Re: loading smta on trailer

Posted by Haas on May 18, 2004 at 05:42:55 from (12.65.25.172):

In Reply to: loading smta on trailer posted by paul on May 17, 2004 at 18:36:06:

I also must disagree with Hugh. Unless the loading configuration of more than one tractor does not allow it, I always back my tractors onto the trailer. No chance of flipping over that way and unloading is much safer. Couple years back, a fellow was killed near here unloading a Farmall M off a trailer at a tractor show. The tractor was forwards on the trailer and he was backing it off the trailer. For whatever reason, he was coasting it off with the clutch disengaged, but the tractor was in first gear. His foot slipped off the clutch and the tractor flipped over on him. This would not have happened had the tractor been backed on the trailer in which case unloading would have been in the forward direction. I've seen some loading operations (and unloading) at shows that make me cringe such as too steep ramps, no chocks on the trailer wheels, ramps with no supports at the trailer, young kids loading and unloading tractors, unloading in wet slick conditions, etc. It's a wonder there are not more accidents. One of my tractors was damaged recently at a show(I did not see it happen) because someone unloaded near it while it was raining and his tractor slipped on the ramps of his trailer and slid in to the front of my tractor.

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