Posted by Wardner on May 27, 2010 at 13:55:44 from (207.69.139.159):
In Reply to: Stupid mistakes posted by FarmallFan on May 25, 2010 at 12:25:12:
TheDurk said: (quoted from post at 01:05:26 05/28/10) I was sixteen years old and mowing at the top of a hill with a brand new 1966 140 with C-4 Danco belly mower. I decided to take out a small hedgerow and got the mower hung up on a small short stump I didn't see through the brush.
I came back the next day with a bumper jack thinking I could raise tractor and mower and then cut the stump. I forgot I hadn't set brake or left it in gear because--duh--the tractor sure wasn't going anywhere. I raised the mower maybe two inches and tractor jumped forward down the hill. Then it was like the hand of some evil god reached down turned the wheel real fast and pointed the tractor into the center of the field and then pointed it straight downhill toward the pond (about 500' of 12%grade. I am running behind it with my hands on the seat back thinking about jumping on to the drawbar and then getting control but she is going faster and faster.
I chicken out and let her go. She hits the bottom of the big hill going going 30 or so bouncing a few feet in the air, steams up the short slope to the pond and lands in the middle with a ginormous splash. It sunk down so just muffler and top of steering wheel were above water.
I called my old man (who was at a cocktail party) and he told me to take a picture. "Next time you start thinking you're so smart I'm gonna show it to you," he said.
Tractor is now mine and still running great. The old man was gone two years later.
I'll bet Gary Mahan of Basking Ridge, NJ doesn't let you drive his Macks. He has the niceest collection of antique Macks in the country.
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