Glad you made it. Those things happen fast. Just like the accidents of someone towing something behind a tractor with a chain. Turn a corner and the chain hits the wheel and it is over before you know it.
Back in my heavy equipment operator period working road construction, I rolled a pavement roller (aka steam roller. It was the end of the day and we were patching a county road on its edges. Being the end of the day, I was hurrying and staying close behind the blade. Anyway, I was rolling the edge and got to far over the edge of the ditch while going too fast and it rolled over. I felt it starting to go and jumped off and landed in a wheat field. The roller rolled over upside down in the ditch a few feet behind me.
It was only afterwards that they told me to jump off on to the road on that side when that happens. The ditch was narrow and deep with a 2 foot drop below field level that stopped further rolling. Any other ditch and it might have kept rolling right over me. Only thing wrong with the roller was a bent shift lever.
I operated a lot of different equipment for them and they just basically gave me a few minutes of instruction and go. When I first began running a scraper, the superintendent did ride with me for a a couple scrape loads and unloads and then I was on my own. I mainly run the milling machine and paving machine when we were working on asphalt projects.
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