Two weeks ago we had several inches of rain here in the WNC mountains. As usual each fall I plan to get all my firewood out early but as usual, those plans fall through and I get behind. I go in the mountains and winch out yellow locust with a big old 730 Case gasser. I can cut a dead 18" locust and winch the entire tree up to the road with the thing ideling at around 500 rpm. The old beast is amazing and a lot of fun. I had a really good day winching out about 4 nice big trees ready for sawing up. I left going out on the same narrow logging road I came in on o k but for some reason the road seemed a little bit narrower. I came to a place I had easily crossed coming in where a tree had uprooted above the road and I had sawed it out the clear the road. This left an incline in the road which I had crossed many times but with smaller tractors. Anyway I stopped and looked at the situation, decided to put my son off the tractor and made the WRONG decision to proceed on over the incline. I did not take into account all the rain we had had. I was easing over the slope with those big 18.5 X 34 tires sticking good, and then with a little slip, everything turned loose. In a second the rear end was off there. With about a 6 foot drop I landed with a small mapel tree between the rear wheel and the winch which stopped it dead. The only thing that kept me from being dead was the mapel tree. It was the only tree there. Nothing else to stop me for another 50 ft. It was so fast it did not have time to scare me until it was over and I got off and looked at what had just happened. The good Lord was watching after me that day. I am usually really careful and study each situation out, whether it be cutting a tree are driving tractors on mountain trails but I sure made a bad decision that day. That will stick in my mind forever and I will surely be more careful. I have thought about it ever day since. My 12 year old son needs me.
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