Re: Near Death Experience

Posted by chadd on January 05, 2005 at 12:42:37 from (155.92.197.182):

In Reply to: Re: Near Death Experience posted by Jeff Smith on January 05, 2005 at 11:08:08:

Did almost the same thing myself. I was moving round bales on a hilly field with the Farmall 656 Hydro and the 3 pt bale spear. I didn't think that the hill I was going up was too steep and thought that the 656 should weigh enough to keep from tipping. I thought wrong! When the front tire touched a small bump, the front end started coming up. I yanked the hydro lever back almost to neutral and the tractor froze in place, front end about 2 or 3 feet up in the air and just dangling there. You see, the Hydro on this particular tractor was beginning to weaken. So, when you moved the lever to the lowest speed settings(1/8 in. or less), the tractor just sat there with enough hydraulic pressure in the transmission to prevent rolling but not enough to actually move the tractor (kind of a makeshift park brake). I sat there with the front end in the air for what seemed like an eternity (it was actually about 1 minute). When I slowly pulled the Hydro lever toward neutral, it gradually lowered the front end down. Thank god for the Hydro, because with a normal transmission tractor, there is a good chance that I would have either broken the front axle coming back down or just would have kept rolling down the hill and flipped over. Let me put it this way, I don't drive frontwards up hills anymore while having anything on the fast hitch. Even if our 806 has 800 pounds of front end weights, it just isn't worth it.

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