Posted by JD Seller on June 07, 2013 at 22:48:38 from (208.126.196.144):
This friend grew up around farming but it was with little TO-30s and Ford 9Ns. He is in his early 70s and had a light stroke a year ago. He has "moments" now when he just does not seem to think things through.
He wanted to move his boy's JD 4430 with a quad-range transmission. He has drove the tractor some but not a lot. He could not get the tractor to crank. He thought he had it in PARK. HE did not!!!! He had the left lever pulled back and the right lever forward. This is why it would not crank. So he jumped the starter solenoid with a screw driver. Luckily it was in reverse not a forward gear. He got out of the way but the tractor took off down the driveway. It hit his pickup and totaled it. The tractor was not damaged in the accident.
His pickup was on it's last legs anyway. So he only had liability coverage on it.
I talked to his son today and mentioned they may want to think about him even driving a pickup with the way he is acting. It is like he is a kid again at times. He just does not reason things out correctly anymore.
This shows you to never try to operate something you are not familiar with and to NEVER bypass start a tractor. It was lucky that things did not turn out worse.
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