If you had suggested a rops to that 75yr old or using a winch. You would have been at best told to mind your own business. And more likely to have caught a cursing. Because he had been loading tractors for 65 years without a problem and knew what he was doing. Always seems to be somebody cutting corners to save time and money. I've seen fools at shows trying to load and unload steel wheeled tractors on sloped decks. As the wheels spins and skid. Didn't seem to bother the drivers at all. Packing that extra narrow front tractor on the trailer is another classic.
Kansas man killed in tractor accident at Nebraska State Fair
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:28 am Updated: 12:29 am, Mon Aug 27, 2012. By Tracy Overstreet tracy.overstreet@theindependent.com 0 comments
A 75-year-old Kansas man was killed Sunday morning when he was loading his antique tractor at the Nebraska State Fair. Charley DeWeese of Thayer, Kan., was loading his 1936 John Deere tractor when the right back tire went off the loading ramp, causing the tractor to flip. DeWeese was driving the tractor at the time of the accident and was thrown from the tractor and pinned underneath it as it toppled over, according to Nebraska State Patrol Lt. Dennis Leonard. “The back wheel just came off the ramp,” Leonard said. The Grand Island Fire Department was called, but DeWeese died at the scene, Leonard said. DeWeese had come to the Nebraska State Fair with his wife and was part of Saturday’s world record-setting antique tractor parade, Leonard said. RFD-TV set out to break the previous Guinness Book of World Records of 745 classic tractors in a parade. More than 1,100 tractors were preregistered for Saturday’s event. The parade got started about 40 minutes late Saturday due to rain, but the record was broken with tractors that were at least 30 years old and drove the entire two-mile parade route. Sunday’s accident happened shortly after 10:30 a.m. in the new east overflow parking lot located on the east side of Stuhr Road. That lot served as a staging area for the antique tractors, Leonard said. Officials with the Nebraska State Fair declined to comment on Sunday’s accident.
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