Fall off tractor?

[Anonymous-0]

The metal seats on the old tractors look pretty dangerous to me. If you hit a bump going fast enought, wont you go over the back?

 

[Allan in NE]

I fell off the wagon one time. :>)

Allan

 

[Rich Va]

I'm still on the wagon.

 

[dhermesc]

Yeah, you can fall of the back easy enough and get run over by what ever you're pulling (not a pretty sight). What made you think you wouldn't?

 

[Red Dave]

Yup, saw my Dad get launched off an old McCormick ground-driven pull type sickle bar mower once. Grandad was driving the tractor and hit a groundhog hole with a mower wheel while Dad was riding on it to raise and lower the bar when needed.

Learned many new cuss words that day.

 

[john d]

The keys to safety are: Hang on to the steering wheel, don't go too fast for conditions, know your equipment and the terrain where you're operating it, don't get complacent, and no riders.

Are they as safe as a new tractor with a seatbelt and ROPS or a cab? No.

 

[jim in N M]

On the wagon,off the wagon, I fell off a Bar stool a few times,and I thought it was moving !! Jim in N M

 

[Tim...OK]

bar stool wasn't moving,but the room was spinning

 

[Mike M]

One may be able to agrue ? that having a cab,seat belt,air bag,antilock brakes and whatever else they add only makes you THINK your safer so you end up taking more of a risk ? and actually doing more harm.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I've NEVER needed, nor Wanted, all the "crapp" on a tractor, such as you mentioned. And I have spent many hours operating tractors in my life. Safety is what you make of it. Safety is your responsibility; not the tractor's.

 

[jubilee johnny]

There were lots of things not as safe in those days. Suicide doors, lack of shields, even my favorite 2cyl john deere tractor's hand clutches were not very safe. What about seat belts in cars, and not child safety seats? What I don't understand today are the states who still allow motorcycle riders to go without helmits. We call them "organ donars".

 

[Anonymous-0]

You can rack yourself up missing a step getting on and off a none running tractor! Lots of way to screw up.
I think those old tractors didn't go as fast and with manual steering you had to have two hands with a pretty good grip on the wheel.

 

[georgeky]

You ought to slow that damn thing down going over bumps. Have logged thousands of hours on old tractors and never been thrown off or fallen off.

 

[old]

Safety on these old tractors is one place and one place only. To bad few people now days know where that safety is. IT BETWEEN the person on the tractors ears. People now days seem to need to go to fast doing a job and few think about how unsafe it is to say brush hog in 3 or 4th gear, etc. Ruff ground you go slow tractors have no springs and if you go to fast ya you could fall off or also brake an axle etc. etc.
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

Rough ground; slow down, that simple. If I were to catch someone on my perfectly steering 2N racing it over rough ground they wouldn't need to worry about getting runover or hurt by the tractor. It would be the owner they'd need most to beware. This tractor functions flawlessly in all aspects; it would not have remained as such if it had been idiotically, unsafely operated.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Going over a bump will not necessarily thrown you off of the back because you are moving at the same speed of the tractor. You're more likely to go off the back if your foot slips off of the clutch and the tractor takes off (without you).

 

[CWL]

I saw a bar stool at the race track one time that had four wheels, handle bars and a weedeater motor to power it around. Talk about a sobriety check! The guy could even pop little wheelies on it.

 

[Anonymous-0]

that's why you don't let go of the steering wheel with both hands, like an insane motorcycle jumper.

 

[buickanddeere]

So lets see, more safety equipment is bad.
Lets add more whirring shafts, chains, sprockets in closer proximity to the operator. This will make him more alert and safer.

 

[02XLT4X4]

Another thing to keep in mind is many of these tractors only have one bolt holding the seat on, if it should happen to break the seat and everything on it fall off the back.

 

[Mike M]

You mean something like a 227 corn picker ?

 

[Lanse]

Theres a ROPS on my holland. I hate that thing-it takes down clotheslines, and small branches. I only use the seatbelt when doing teenager stuff ( doughnuts, wheelies, racing, etc)

 

[Anonymous-0]

I was on a bar stool once and the stool stayed put but I moved 2 1/2 feet. It worked out ok though, the floor stopped me!

 

[Anonymous-0]

I ran over a small log with one rear tire on the H Farmall the other day, and it sure tried to toss me off to the side the way the tire raised up and spun the log out and then grabbed forward again. It was going up a steep hill. Put butterflys in my stomach and I wasn't going fast at all, 1st or second gear, just hit it, just right. Thank God for fenders! (yes I stopped and cleared the log out of the way for the next trip through there)

 

[Lou]

Unlike falling off the wagon,I bet you only fall off a tractor once.

 

[Lou]

Ill say one thing I dont hear mentioned much , that ROPS will kill you in the woods.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Bought a 60 Oliver two years ago. The owner drove it around for about ten minutes before he drove it on the trailer. Hauled it about 65 miles. The owner kept the battery so, my son sat on the seat and operated the brakes as I pushed it off the trailer and pulled it into the shed. The next day, I climbed on it to check things out and as I sat down (the clamp holding the seat on was loose)the seat fell of with me still in it. Hit the ground flat on my back. As I was hoping I wouldn't croak bacause I couldn't breath, I was also thinking about destroying that seat then, as I started to breath again, I noticed a draft. As I checkeed it out I noticed a hole in the crotch of my pants and a little cloth the same color as my pants on the drawbar. When I checked and found everything else in order in my pants, I laughed so hard that I had tears in my eyes. I never get on a tractor now without checking the seat and making sure that the two nuts are tight.

 

[Flewster]

The most dangerous part of the tractor is the nut that holds the steering wheel.

 

[Anonymous-0]

This fits very well.
Use your brain.

 

[Leland]

It only hurts until the disk or bush hog finds you .

 

[bm3501466]

I remember once in my 1086 with a cab I had the seat adjusted wrong and I hit a bump on the road in road gear and it bounced me up and my head hit the top of the cab. That is why some of them have seat belts.

 

[bm3501466]

I remember once in my 1086 with a cab I had the seat adjusted wrong and I hit a bump on the road in road gear and it bounced me up and my head hit the top of the cab. That is why some of them have seat belts.

 

[Randy-IA]

One other thing you might not want to do is try and hitch up a plow on a wet day with houseslippers on HA-HA . I did that Sunday and my foot slipped off the clutch ( twice ) on the Farmall M . Ended up almost pushing the plow sideways into my pickup . I was hitching it up at a sharp angle . Everything ended up intact but it taught me a lesson . ...Randy

 

[Pete in MD]

Only one time??

 

[buickanddeere]

I'll take my chances with a rops in the woods/bush/forest. Not many here haul trees,logs or maple sap.
One time in my youth while running in International crawler. Can't recall the model but it was a turbo six with a hydrostat trans. It was equipped with a four post rops and roof.
With my uncle on the Terrex 82-30, we were pushing down slash/poplar trees. As we were pushing a tree pile together, I heard "wwwwwwwwwhoosh-Twang-Thunk". I didn't even have time to duck or really see it coming. Unknown to us a 50-60ft length of poplar trunk had been getting bent into a spring loaded bow shape. One end let go and swung back at speed towards me. With about the last 2 ft of tree trunk the front right vertical of the rops took the hit instead of myself. The tree hit hard enough to remove paint down to bare metal.
If it had been for the rops, that tree would have done more than just "leave a mark" on myself.
I'll use a rops among trees.