Posted by oldtanker on November 29, 2017 at 06:51:49 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Narrow vs wide fronts? posted by Oliver 500 Wa on November 28, 2017 at 10:08:48:
They have done studies that prove that the biggest stability problems with a NF tractor is down hill with something pushing the tractor. That situation killed a guy I know a few years ago. He had been around tractors all his life. Owned a business in town and did a little hobby farming too. He was 70. On a paved road, NF Farmall M, square baler and partially filled hay rack. Going down hill had to make a turn onto another road. Started the turn and the weight of the baler and wagon did the rest.
But I can remember well my dad and several other local farmers going on about how unsafe NF tractors were. I was shown a place where a guy died rolling a NF tractor on a neighbors farm. The hillside in question? Really would only be safe for a crawler. The owner had farmed it for years, first with horses then a JD B. That hill wasn't a question of "if" you would tip a tractor but "when" you would tip a tractor.
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