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Robert Davis

11-01-2004 13:35:34




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Tymoc

11-01-2004 19:22:49




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 Re: Don't try this in reply to Robert Davis, 11-01-2004 13:35:34  

Friend of mine worked on a line crew (Those big towers you see all over) and were in a field working when they saw a farmer with a stuck tractor, had his wife on a N to help pull him out. Said she took the slack out of the chain and tractor flipped right over on top of her. The line crew got down to their truck, which wasn't known for starting well and it fired right up and they ran over to the flipped tractor, hooked up the wench and lifted the tractor off the women. Said she was still alive but bleeding every where and had turned black. Her husband and "blown" his guts out trying to lift the tractor by hand. Friend said he heard she survived after a long hosp. stay. Lucky for her they were there. BE CAREFUL!!!!!

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Adam Paul

11-01-2004 17:01:40




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 I kinda liked it... in reply to Robert Davis, 11-01-2004 13:35:34  
Sure looks like a good way to save time on front axle removal... Or perhaps he had a flat we couldn"t see, no lug wrench on hand and needed to get one of the wheels (probably the far one) back to the shed... Very inventive!
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Eric ATL

11-01-2004 15:48:49




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 Re: Don't try this in reply to Robert Davis, 11-01-2004 13:35:34  
Robert, Scary clip but I feel kind of sorry for the guy, busted tractor and all. Of coarse he's incredibly lucky he wasn't killed. Did the guy have the load hitched up wrong? Or, will the tractor acctually wheelie even if the load is hitched below the rear axle? Eric



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old

11-01-2004 16:45:27




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 Re: Don't try this in reply to Eric ATL, 11-01-2004 15:48:49  
Yes it will and it can happen so fast that all you can do is hope for this best. Seen to many of them wheelie and its very bad news if your not a lucky one



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gahorn

11-01-2004 22:03:11




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 Re: Don't try this in reply to old, 11-01-2004 16:45:27  
Back in the 60's my folks had a beach house at Matagorda, Tx. It was a house right on the beach and stood on pilings or "stilts", which formed a convenient open-air, two-car carport. A farmer donated his old tractor to us for a "beach buggy". It was an old AC I think. Anyway, it had a wooden platform on it's rear with a school bus seat bolted to it for riders. He kept it stored under our house for his convenience when he visited the beach, and we had permission to use it all we liked. Being from the city, we had no idea of the inherent dangers. My folks let me drive it up and down the beach all I liked unsupervised. I was a teenager, and had a blast driving it in three feet of surf. (Doh!) One day I headed back towards land behind the dunes which was a huge area of marshland. I got the thing stuck to the bottom of the tranny/differentials. My brilliance really showed itself when I lashed a pair of long fence posts thru the rear-wheel spokes in an attempt to have the tractor lift itself out of the mud as if the fence-posts were snowshoes. Damn good thing I only tried it in reverse, for I popped the clutch time and time again trying to get those rear wheels to suck up out of the mud. Had I ever put those posts thru the front spokes of the rear wheels I'd probably have flipped it over on myself. God sometimes protects fools. I eventually slogged home and hired a wrecker to winch it out. God sent a thief for the tractor before my next beach-house visit and probably saved my life. We've got to tell everyone we know about the dangers of tractors to their unknowlegeable drivers.

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