Sure glad you are ok there. Things don't always go according to plan...at least not for me. I have a large grove, or what ever you call it, of bamboo on the front side of my 76 acres. The old 8N just doesn't have the grunt to cut all of that mess and it's tall and hard stuff anyway. I do keep it cut back to just that area. My neighbors father planted that many years ago, probably about 1920 or so. That stuff grows like a wild fire. I believe it would take over a 5 acre field in just a few years if I didn't cut it. I was cutting close to a couple of big pines that had died in the field and some of the bamboo shoots were coming up sort of close to them. As I swung around close to the tree an old bamboo was leaning over close to the tree (had been knocked over the year before and was really hard stuff when it dries out dead. I thought it just push it out of the way, like you were thinking with the tree piece. Well, the left rear wheel caught it and did like you said and that thing came about as close to impaling me in the right side of the chest as it could. I still have a scar where it went in some. Could have been much worse but I got the tractor stopped before it went any further and checked it out and backed up and definitely breathed a prayer of thanks!
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