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Just wondering

07-25-2007 13:46:44




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With those metal pan seats, if you hit a big enought bump, wont you fall off the seat backwards?




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Bob Kerr

07-26-2007 20:15:12




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
I know someone who got pulled off an M while plowing. She had the trip rope wrapped around her wrist and The plow hit a rock underground and the coupler on the plow released ( they are supposed to do that if it hits something), Well she got a lesson real quick! I was acually suprised she did that as she is one tough ol farm gal who knew better. Wasn't hurt outside of rope burn on the wrist and knocked the wind out so catching back up with the tractor was a chore.

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Hugh MacKay

07-27-2007 19:25:15




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Bob Kerr, 07-26-2007 20:15:12  
Bob: My dad probably felt worse than your lady friend. He hooked the H to No.8 plow. He had a about a golf ball size steel ball on end of trip rope. Normally he tossed that over the loader frame just above the light bar. If the plow hitch tripped the ball would go flying by him, but never hit him. He had guides welded to loader frame aligning rope half wat between operator and wheel.

He had used this for years and no one had ever got hit by the ball. One day he was just plowing a small garden, thus threw the rope over his right leg allowing the ball to go down left side of seat. Well, the plow tripped, and the steel ball got him right between the legs. He said he was close to 10 minutes before he could even budge from the seat. Kind of what one would call laying on an H steering wheel, with tears in your eyes, I think.

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rd/oh

07-26-2007 18:32:19




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
My granpa fell off a seat forwards. He was planting beans with a F14 in high gear and the 4 bolts that hold the front pedistal broke and the front wheels went back under the tractor and the front of the frame was in the dirt.He wasn't hurt but he sure lost his sense of humor.



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Sam#3

07-26-2007 05:42:49




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
Not if the attitude of the nut connecting the seat to the steering wheel is properly torqued.



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Tallperson

07-25-2007 20:48:59




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
The only pan seat I ever came off of was on my John Deere #4 big sickle bar mower behind my percheron team. I was cutting hay in a strange field and ran diagonally into a small irrigation ditch....The lines to the team were not nearly as secure as a steering wheel. I went off the back into the ditch, the team stopped, the mower rolled back and pinned me down.. Nothing hurt just couldn't move.. I still had the lines and asked the team to step up... they took one step and pulled the mower off me.. I got up, brushed off and we went on mowing... I was very thankfull for a well trained and calm team of horses.. Tallperson

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Elvin C Frank

07-25-2007 19:54:36




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
I can vouch for the pucker factor. It kicked in on me while we were dragging my Super M off the trailer with the 9N last week. Was a very tense unloading operation.



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Janicholson

07-25-2007 17:17:58




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
It is a concern in a litigious society. Very few fell off, because they were aware of the operating parameters and limits of the tool they were using. Is it dangerous? NO. Are they a problem for less than qualified operators not really. Those who fool around or go too fast might be better off out of the gene pool. A broken seat is different, I had one fail under me on a MM U that allowed me to be dragged for 100 ft till it hit a phone pole. Maintain those brackets. (It was not my tractor) JimN

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Jimmy King

07-25-2007 16:17:59




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
The only person I ever knew that fell off backwards was my Dad. O'h I forgot to tell you as he went off backwards the Super A was going over sideways.



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Hugh Mackay

07-25-2007 14:04:26




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
I got on my first tractor with a pan seat in July 1948. I had one ever since, probably logged 7,000 hours on pan seats, never fell off of one yet, not even a close call.

What are you thinking about, using it like an ATV?



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ScottyHOMEy

07-25-2007 13:51:26




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 Re: fall off seat in reply to Just wondering, 07-25-2007 13:46:44  
Not if you have one hand with a firm grip on the wheel and at least one foot on the deck. When the pucker factor kicks in, your foot, butt and hand will make a rigid triangle and wedge ya in.

Just how fast are you gon' anyway?



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