Re: What is the most DANGROUS

Posted by Jim K on January 08, 2007 at 15:54:44 from (207.69.137.206):

In Reply to: Re: What is the most DANGROUS posted by PhilcaseinWPa on January 08, 2007 at 10:00:37:

A tractor with insuficient brakes! or no brakes at all. Was touring the woods around my uncles house. with my cousins JD log skidder, had his wife, my wife, his daughter, and him. He was sitting on the back half with the winch, (it was an articulated machine) and the girls were sitting or holding on up front with me. Heading down a hill I figured I needed a little higher gear so that I could just let her idle down the hill at a liesurely pace rather than have the motor screeming.
As soon as I put in the clutch to change gears she started picking up speed and I couldn't get it into 2nd gear because it wasn't a sincro mesh tranny. so here I am standing on the brakes which are not doing anything and now I am starting to feel lumps building up in my shorts.
Cause this thing is really bouncing and still picking up speed. Just then my cousin yells at me from the rear to drop the blade that it had on the front, so I did and it came to a tooth rattling stop. I still cringe when I think what would have happened had that skidder not had a blade on the front.
Never change gears when going down a hill especially if towing a load.

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