Re: Halloween Scary Stories

Posted by Slappy on October 31, 2002 at 04:47:52 from (143.88.58.77):

In Reply to: Halloween Scary Stories posted by FREDDY on October 30, 2002 at 22:48:02:

Here's my contribution: On a beautiful fall morning last year my wife Ame and I went into the west pasture to clear some scrub and bushes that always seem to grow faster than we can chop them out. I was working with an ax and spade on some small stuff and Ame had fired up the H and was pulling small bushes out with a chain. I was about 100 meters away when I heard a scream above the din of the engine. I looked up in time to see the front end of the tractor standing exactly straight up in the air and starting over backwards. All I could do was watch as the tractor came over. Fortunately, it rolled only as fast as first gear would turn. When the back of the seat hit the ground, Ame began to crab walk backward. It was like watching a bad movie, Ame scrambling backward at almost the same speed as the tractor was settling. You couldn't have slid a piece of paper between her and 4000 pounds of Farmall steel. I had run closer now and watched the front grill settle into the ground pinning the tip of her tennis shoe and sock. The engine chugged twice more then died. There Ame sat just looking at the tractor, one shoe on, one bare foot. The steering shaft was mashed right into the center of the seat, I don't imagine that a body imposed between the two would have fared well. Later, we pieced together what had happened. Ame had some difficulty attaching the chain to the draw bar and had connected it to the three point connection behind the seat (mistake 1). She then hooked the chain to a bush that was too big to get out without a little chopping first, but she thought she woud try it before calling me over (mistake 2). Finally, when the bush began to give, she turned to watch it come out, taking her eyes off the front of the tractor (mistake one too many). It took me a year to repair and replace everything on the H, but it's running now and Ame is back to disking, mowing and yes, even pulling some bushes (but not big ones). I would guess that neither of us will be taking any short cuts on the tractor ever again.

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