Glen: You reminded me of a trucker sent out on mild winter day to pick up a big dozer left at a remote construction sight. He wasn't an expert heavy equipment operator, however he had loaded and unloaded many machines. He fired the old dozer up, went back to the truck dropped his beavertail ramps, got his binds and chains in order so it would be quite exit once loaded.
Back to the dozer, pulled the power shift in no. 1 let off the decellerator, headed for the low bed. As he approached the lowbed he depressed the decellerator, nothing happened, pulled it to neutral nothing happened. He panicked and jumped, broke his ankle on hard frozen ground. He lay in the snow and watched the dozer chew and spin for a bit as it came up against his truck cab. In the end the dozer preveiled taking cab, engine and transmission with it into a bog where it lost traction. He spend hours in the cold, cell phone gone with the cab. Finally co workers came looking for him.
They believe that machine had been tampered with. I know the company offered a reward to anyone who may have seen folks playing with the dozer. I never did hear the results. I can well imagine the bill on the Mack tractor, bringing in another mahine tow tow the first one out of bog, where it lost traction. Those things don't pull out of a bog very easy.
Your right, that building in the photo wouldn't slow the 175 down very much. There is a story around these parts about a John Deere A with a hand clutch. Grand father was putting it in the drive shed for the night, forgot about the hand clutch. His grand son claims the last thing they remember was the old man yelling whoa, damnit, whoa. Luckily yhe John Deere took the whole wall in front of it, roof stayed up and grand father was not hurt.
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