A year or two ago - driving a friends farmall M down the road in road gear, full throttle - bouncing along like a jack in the box (I think that seat needs a new shock cylinder)...
Front wheel wobbles like CRAZY - CONSTANTLY have to correct your course (this becomes important shortly).
I forget what I was pulling - a rake or something else that would hurt to be run over with.
I leaned back a bit to see how much traffic had accumulated behind me - and doesn't the steering wheel pop right off the shaft...
Have you ever stood at the edge of a tall building and have somebody do the "SAVED YOUR LIFE" thing when they grab you - to scare the )#(*$ out of you. It was like that.
I came VERY close to going over backwards.
Once I recovered from that initial jolt - I realized that I also had no steering now...
Oncoming traffic -
Last instinct in the world when you just almost flipped over backwards is to press forward with both feet to engage a clutch and or brakes...
ALMOST couldn't do it -
I almost died two different ways from that one stupid failure.
ALL happened in a split second.
I did manage to overcome that shock and pushed both the clutch and brake - and as the tractor slowed I even managed to slide the wheel back on somehow, and turn the tractor out of the oncoming late.
Took a while to forgive my friend though - he knew that nut was loose and never really fixed it properly.
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