Lowell, nice to see your post and I certainly can because it was so simple and very easy to repeat. I was getting ready to move my SMTA tractor into my new heated tractor shed addition I completed this past summer for the winter and the battery needed a charge. The battery being beneath the seat so I removed the forward two bolts which hold the seat in position to the battery box. Hooked up the charger and let it run for a couple of hours while doing something else. After it was charged I flipped the seat up and put one of the hold down bolts back in place finger tight. Jumped up on the tractor to start it and that bolt flew out and the seat with me in it flipped over backwards. I landed on my head and left shoulder breaking several bones along with a big gash on the back of my head. Finger tight is not good enough for that bolt that's for sure. I will never do that again without putting both bolts back in and tightening them up. I just thought maybe the battery needed replacement and would have to remove them again later. I'm guessing my head height would have been about 8 feet above the concrete floor so I'm sure I hit very hard. Glad to be on the road to recovery but still have several months to go with the spinal fracture at L1. My collar bone, shoulder socket and ribs have done well and now trying to get full use of my shoulder again through therapy and my back through exercises. Hope to be fine again this spring sometime, Hal. P.S. You look good in a Santa suit if that was you on the tractor that was posted the other day as "Dad's 1950 Farmall H", Merry Christmas.
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