A few years ago when my brother and I were taking down some oaks for firewood, one of our sisters was helping us, driving the tractor to drag the trunks out to an open area where we could cut and load them easier. She backed the tractor up to the trunk and lowered the arms and draw bar down so I could wrap the chains around the trunk close enough to the bar so she could lift it enough to drag it out. I was bending over, doing the chain, and she had it in reverse and dumped the clutch. That tractor jumped up back on me, and I stood up and started running backwards straddling the trunk. I grabbed the fender and vaulted out of there because the tractor was coming back faster than I could back peddle, and it was either that or end up under it. She came to a stop with the tractor straddling the tractor far back from where I started. Scared the devil out of me. I truly thought I was dead. There was nowhere for me to go. My sister shut it down and to this day will not touch that tractor.
Gotta be careful, I guess. We all do dumb stuff and don't realize how dumb until a near miss that could have gone very badly, but luckily didn't that time.
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