tractor upset

showcrop · Sep 4, 2019

Just got back from a FD rescue call for a man pinned under a tractor. He was on soft gravel and very little weight on one leg only so he was unhurt but he was stuck. We used the jaws to lift the tractor off from him, and it all went pretty quickly. The guy made at least three mistakes when just one would have done the trick for him. The tractor was equipped with ROPS but he didn't have the belt fastened. He was moving from the pile to wherever he was going with the filled bucket high, and he drove up over the edge of his pile. And this guy is a retired twenty year LEO.

Steve@Advance · Sep 4, 2019

Last time I was at Big Bend National Park, they had just recovered a body in the desert.

Every place you look, there are warnings, "If you break down, stay with your vehicle, a ranger will come by within 24 hours".

This man broke down, took off walking cross country, not even on a road!

An active duty LEO.

old · Sep 4, 2019

Sadly people do not learn to keep a loader bucket only as high as one needs to be able to travel where they need to go and then lift it only as high as needed to dump the load. I see many people drive around with the loader way up in the air and that is why they have a problem due to having the center of gravity way up in the air so a tip over become oh so easy

fixerupper · Sep 4, 2019

It just takes one slip up to turn our world upside down. We have all inadvertently make dangerous mistakes and survived.

Ray · Sep 4, 2019

One killed near me in ohio yesterday when his ford tractor flipped over on top of him while trying to pull a big tree.

8NHENRY · Sep 4, 2019

Good job Showcrop, it is kind of nice when something works out and actually save a life that could've easily gone the other way!

dpendzic · Sep 4, 2019

showcrop--do you guys ever use the inflatable bags to lift vehicles? lots of departments favor them, in my heavy rescue course the instructor was from FDNY and he favored hydraulic jacks

the tractor vet · Sep 4, 2019

Trees and tractors do not go well together , never did and never will . But ya get people who move out of twon and get some land and the next thing is they go buy a tractor and start doing stupid stuff with them like tryen to pull trees out of the ground , dragging trees out of the woods with a chain and not havve the log or tree off the ground so it does not get caught . Run around with a loader way up in the air , no added balist on the back end . Just like experienced farmers running around the field with the loader up in the air while mowing hay on a hill side when with the new loaders today it only takes a couple min. to drop the loader and not have that extra weight beating up the ft. end while flying across the fields with a disc bine in one gear down from road gear.

John in Mich · Sep 4, 2019

We lost a friend last year pulling a tree with his ATV. It came down on top of him. His wife was watching.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 4, 2019

Did it damage the tractor much? Hate to see a good tractor get torn up.

VADAVE · Sep 4, 2019

Not to sound stupid--What's a LEO?

in-too-deep · Sep 4, 2019

Law Enforcement Officer

showcrop · Sep 4, 2019

(quoted from post at 13:05:03 09/04/19) showcrop--do you guys ever use the inflatable bags to lift vehicles? lots of departments favor them, in my heavy rescue course the instructor was from FDNY and he favored hydraulic jacks

Yes, We use the air bags. In fact on the way to the scene I asked the FF who was with me on the engine which she would go for and she replied "air bags" and I told her that I would tend towards them as well. When we got there however, I had no sooner deployed the wheel chocks for my engine than they were calling for me to set the air bags up. They had been partly set up but the FF who had arrived a minute earlier on the rescue wasn't adequately familiar. While I was getting them set up the O1 and another FF had raised the tractor with the JAWS. They saw a good lift point which was above a good bearing point so they went that way. With 6 personnel we had 2 medical 2 on the primary lift means and 2 on the secondary lift means within 3 minutes of first unit on scene. So we not only got it done quickly but we had a back-up in case the primary hadn't worked.

Billy NY · Sep 4, 2019

A friend stopped by over the weekend, described a recent tractor flip over, man was pinned, but was not fatal, the ensuing fire killed him. Lost a friend and local head brewer last year, flipped over pulling on a tree. 13 years ago, a neighbor got bounced out of the seat on a 640 while using a rotary cutter, got run over and through the mower, very graphic and horrible scene. No loader on my 4630 ford, but I put up the foldable rops and use the seatbelt whenever I run it. No restriction pathway to the rear tire on either side, just lean far enough you could fall off. I bought a ford landscape rake over a year ago, guy had a super low hour not so common MF 165 if I recall, just sitting in the woods. His son had close call with it, parked it since.

730virgil · Sep 4, 2019

there a guy about 3 miles from me who will go down the road with a round bale on his skid loader as fast a he can with bale as high as it will go. road is bad shape I look for him to go over sideways onto car coming from other way.

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