Yeah - I thought about this more, and I can see where the drawbar would actually help keep the tractor from flipping - if you think about it sort of like a see-saw, with one end shortend and chained to a tree. You couldn't raise the other end too high without finally getting to a point where the chain would keep it from going further.
The tractor would be like that, by pivoting on the axle.
However, if you were at that full height point and the chain snapped, then you could be in trouble.
As I said in my other post, there was a guy in town that died from this. It was such an awful, gruesome situation that it really set the fear of god into me about tying to anything that doesn't move.
But I also know he didn't chain to his drawbar, until now I never really gave that detail too much thought. But now that I do think about it, not hitching to the drawbar is probably what caused the accident more than anything else.
Either way, I think it's accurate to say that you really don't KNOW for sure what a tractor is going to do if you tie it like that, and the clutch doesn't break free.
To me, that little bit of uncertainty is enough for me to not do it. There's too much power and weight at play to take chances.
I look at it sort of like handling a gun. You just never take chances with it because if something goes wrong it can be catastrophic.
Personal decision, again, don't mean to preach. Just wanted to clarify what I had said in my original post.
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