When I was about 12 or 13, was pulling our 336 Deere baler and 2 full hay racks down the road with our 756. Wasp got between my glasses and face, and I tried to swat him away. Knocked my glasses off, and I couldn't see a thing. Ran that whole train off into a ditch and up a waterway.
A bit later the best neighbor a man could ever have came along, found my glasses in the road, unbroken. He calmed a scared young man down, got the whole thing back on the road, and followed me home. He never told a soul, as far as I know.
When I was in tech school, I was driving a 4020 power shift up a steep hill into the shop. At the bottom of the drive was a sharp curve, with a deep pond below it. Just about at top of the hill, and the thing ran out of fuel. Took off like a rocket backward downhill, brakes would not pump up manually. Finally got it jammed into park, about 10' short of going over the bank into the pond. I was in the process of bailing off when it stopped. Was afraid it'd go over backward when park caught, but it didn't.
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