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Near miss report: New tractor owners, read this.

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Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on October 21, 2005 at 15:46:11 from (209.71.222.98):

I'd always wondered how a tractor operator could run over himself while dismounting. Now I know.

I was moving scrap iron with my Massey Ferguson 35 and I wanted to adjust the chain on the loader holding the object. Leaving the tractor in neutral and idling at about 400 rpm, I started to dismount when out of the corner of my eye I noticed the left rear wheel TURNING.

Immediately I stopped my dismount, pressed the clutch, returned to my seat and discovered: 1) the gearshift was inside the cuff of my jeans, 2) the tractor was in first gear.

Odd. I tried to shift in without the clutch. No go. But it was definitely in first gear, and definitely moving ahead, so I finally concluded that I must have stepped partially or fully on the clutch as I attempted to dismount the tractor.

A bit of tangled clothing in this case, if combined with a distraction or a slip, could quite possibly have produced an ugly injury. Luckily I saw the wheel turning and took action before things got out of hand.

Maybe this is why the manual is so insistent about setting the parking brake before dismounting the tractor. It's pretty easy to shift a 35 into first gear by accident.

Lesson learned.

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