Re: Tractor Deaths/Injury Due To Flipping Over

Posted by Michael Soldan on February 08, 2003 at 09:43:08 from (216.46.130.8):

In Reply to: Tractor Deaths/Injury Due To Flipping Over posted by patpeery on February 08, 2003 at 04:36:31:

At the International Plowing Match hosted every year in Ontario, the farm safety league does a demonstration with a small Ford tractor with a roll cage around the body of the tractor. They have that thing upside down more than it is on its wheels. One of the main culprits for an accident is not hitching properly. The tractor's drawbar is the only safe place to hook up..any where else is asking for trouble. Yes, pulling stumps or hauling logs has killed a lot of unsuspecting tractor drivers. When I was about 14 I was pulling a load of manure out of the yard and I had to go up onto the cement pad to get out the gate. I was driving a C Chalmers, when the rear wheels caught the cement pad and had traction the heavy manure load didn't want to come so the torque of the tractor lifted the front end up almost straight up..my Dad screamed at me and I hit the clutch..the tractor came bouncing back down..my Dad said another foot or two and it would have been over top dead center which meant it would have flipped back over onto the spreader with me on it. We were awfully carefull about how we came out of the yard after that..we parked on the cement and loaded there..it was a little further for the loader tractor but a lot safer. Familiarity breeds contempt..you do something so often that you begin to believe nothing could go wrong...Jeesh! Mike in Exeter Ontario

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