It's amazing how stupid you feel when in the middle of a bad situation knowing as it unfolds that you could have avoided the whole mess.
I had an old farmall with badly glazed brakes. I wasn't using it because I had another tractor and put off fixing the brakes.
My SIL called, she was stuck in the mud. I went down to the barn, my first tractor wouldn't start and I didn't want to leave her too long so I jumped into the farmall and pulled her out. They have a narrow drive on the side of a hill and I was getting turned around. I backed up and went to shift from reverse to second but didn't quite get the tractor stopped and couldn't get the tractor back in gear. I stompted the brake as hard as I could and slowly kept going backwards until I was over the edge of the driveway, then things became much less slow. No ROPS, no brakes, limbs hitting me every which way as I steered like a madman trying to avoid trees and not tip the tractor at the same time.
Those times aren't fun but I pay much more attention to what I do now, keep my machinery up, and now have ROPS and use the seatbelt.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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