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Posted by john d on December 06, 1999 at 05:46:11 from (206.141.74.34):
In Reply to: Whats your close call on a tractor? posted by Highboyford on December 05, 1999 at 16:42:04:
Spring of '74, I think; very wet that year in central IN. Dad and I went to help a neighbor and good friend finish plowing. I had the M with a trailing IH 3-14 plow. A sudden rainstorm came up which was obviously going to end plowing for the day, and we all headed out of the field. I was the last of 4 tractors to get to the end of the field, and headed toward the barn area through a grass lane and a partially wooded lot.
It was raining HARD, I was cold, and getting colder. I dropped the M into 5th gear and was probably moving about 10mph when the front wheels (narrow front) went into a depression, throwing me up off the seat. When the front came up, it was fast enough for it to leave the ground, by a foot or more. I was in mid-air, and my only contact with the tractor was a good grip in the steering wheel.
When the tractor front came up suddenly, the drawbar went down enough for the plow hitch to disconnect from the clevis. The plow tongue dug into the ground and flipped the plow forward, landing it upside down.
Meanwhile, I had pulled myself back up onto the seat from my "flying" position, and got the tractor under control. When I looked back, the plow was upside down, wheels turning, and exactly where I would have been laying if I hadn't held onto the steering wheel so tightly. I still get chills thinking about what it would have been like to have that plow land on me, or what it would have been like for Dad and our friends to have to pull it off of whatever was left of me.
Farm machinery is inherently dangerous. Being in a hurry in bad weather makes it deadly.
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