Yes they can and do so so fast that there have been many times people can not react fast enough and people are badly hurt or die . If you have the tires locked to the ground and not enough ft weight they will come up fast, even with ft weight they can and will stand up on you and looking DOWN the oppen end of the muffler is not a fun feeling . On the hills around here it is not uncommon for this to happen plowing . even on flat ground if you snag something or hit a patch of hard pan it will bring the ft. up . Now i personally have never had the ft. come up while disking even with the 18 foot disc behind the 1066 as normally she will break traction even with the duals on before she will come up . BUT plowing or deep ripping i have had her five feet in the air before . Worst one was my old Farmall 460 as she went straight up while on a hill when a pin sheared in the tel-a-depth control system when i tried to just lift the plow a bit when it snagged a root on the last round . You try and stay in the seat and hold the clutch down while the tractor is standing straight in the air and do some FAST thinking of your next move , to late for the Bail off now is it going all the way over backwards or is it going to drop like a rock . To get her down it was stuff it in rev. and ease the clutch out and when we started down STAND ON THE BRAKES . Even with the brakes on when it broke over center with the hitch all the way at the top and the plow hooked to that root when the root broke man did she hit hard . In my 60 plus years of running equipment of all types i have had many experiences and it does not matter how careful you think you are DO DO happens and happens fast , I have had excavators side unload i have had dozers slide off the side of trailers i have had dozers slide side ways down a hill on frozen ground , came close to rolling a combine on a side hill i have had brake failures on scrapers and the electric steering fail on old Le Tourneau scrapers while on the haul road running flat out while loader and now way to steer and shoving down the clutch and standing on the brakes that were about worthless and no way to drop the bowl as everything except the drive was electric controlled . Then ya use a tractor for loader work . One can NEVER have enough weight on the back end for loader work . And as we age we slow down and do not react to a fast problem like we did in younger years. This stuff can KILL YOU IN A SPLIT SECOND , So stop and THINK before you do and then stuff can still go from good to BAD fast.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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