This incident happened a while ago, was applying on a farm that was broke into several smaller fields. To go into the back field, I had to go down a moderately sloped hill. Had done this many times before the incident.. Started down the hill with a loaded set of wagons (approx. 11000 gallons), they started to push the tractor, tractor went sideways, I couldn't get it to straighten out and hope for the best, so I went for a ride.. All I could do at that point was apply the brakes and hope the brakes on the wagons slowed me down, close my eyes and hold on. I still feel lucky I didn't go over, or that the drawbar on either tractor or wagons didn't break.. It could have gotten much worse in a hurry!
After that incident, I told the company I worked for that I would never apply that farm again, as it had many steeper hills than the one that this happened on, and was much more aware of some of the other hills I had worked on many times before (before I left this company about a year ago, I had over 5000 hours in the seat of the 9430, and many many more in other equipment). Other than being stuck a time or 2, this is the only serious incident I ever had.
When John Deere came out to help us get back moving, this is what they said caused the accident.. I believe the line split because of the accident, but we will never know for sure.
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