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jon f mn

jon f mn

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The tractor was on the trailer behind the white truck on the left! I watched it fall off right in front of me. Guess he shoulda had a bunge or 2 on it.
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(quoted from post at 13:35:11 04/19/16) The tractor was on the trailer behind the white truck on the left! I watched it fall off right in front of me. Guess he shoulda had a bunge or 2 on it.
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WOW! Glad no one was injured! I'm not real fond of folks that don't tie stuff down!

Rick
 
Gee Jon, just what do you do,or what have you done to be involved in these situation,? If not getting dinged in a truck stop or broad sided by a deer, you almost had a Ford tractor for a Volvo hood ornament, the correct police would not be amused.
 
He was real lucky.

My dad's autoshop door was across the street from a drive in bank. Someone put their truck in park, got out, it drove across the street, though his door and rear ended a car he was under the hood on. I think he got real lucky that day. The cop came over looked the situation over and just shook his head.
 
I lost an 11 shank, pull type chisel plow off of a trailer once. I still don't know how it got off.

I'd bought the chisel plow and a six row cultivator on a consignment auction in St. Paul, NE. I had them load the cultivator first and boomed it down. Then they sat the chisel plow on top of the cultivator, and the way the shanks and frames of the two sat down together I thought that chisel plow can't go anywhere.

One of my wife's brothers was with me and we headed for his house in Columbus. Everything was fine until US30 turned north onto US81 on the south edge of Columbus. When I made the turn, that stupid chisel plow came off the trailer and rolled over to the curb. Didn't even hurt it.

We didn't try to load it again. I parked the trailer with the cultivator at my BIL's house and pulled the chisel plow home behind the pickup. Then went back for the trailer the next evening.

That's been 30 years ago, and my BIL still refers to that intersection as the "Chisel Plow Corner".
 
If you would have been a few seconds sooner you wouldn't have been able to do a thing about it except watch it hit you. Thirty years ago or so i saw a trailer upside down in a ditch with a tractor under it, still firmly chained down, or maybe the trailer was chained to the tractor now that the trailer was now on top. This happened a few miles south of our local threshing show a few days before the show was to start. I was glad i was not the owner.
 
A few years back, I knew a man that owned a flat bed roll off wrecker. He had numerous problems, mostly revolving around excess drinking and ex wives! (Maybe one led to the other...)

Anyway, one of his exes calls him one night, her car was broke down, needed him to go get it. So he goes and loads up the car and heads back home on a winding, rough country road. Parks the wrecker, stumbles back to bed.

Goes out the next morning... No car!

He back tracks out the road he drove in on, there sits the car, up against the fence in the ditch!

He loads it back up and takes it home, not a scratch (according to his story).
 
Thought I was smart. Several years ago I need floor pans welded into a vw convertible I had. No problem. Just removed the body. only took 34 bolts, two wires and throttle linkeage. Only had to go 3 miles to the welding shop. Put a chain on her and hooked it up to my luv pickup. pulled it up about 2 miles and turned onto the street to the shop. saw a big chug hole so hit the brakes a little. Looked to my left and I was being passed by a vw frame with no body. oh no I says. jumped out and jumped up onto the frame and got her stopped. Sure glad no one was coming. Lesson learned.
 
My neighbor had a Farmall C with a belly mower. They rigged a hitch to the front of the C so they could pull it down the road a few miles to a couple remote farms to mow the grass. The tractor broke away and hit the ditch twice, first time the ditch was steep and a rear axle housing had broken off by the time it hit bottom. The second time it drifted off and rolled in a shallow ditch with two brand new wagons hooked behind it. The tongue on the front wagon was twisted like a cork screw. We pulled it back over on its wheels, he started it up and drove it home, high gear, throttle wide open holding up the steering wheel.
 
Glad you and they all appear to be OK.
Yes, made the mistake of failing to adequately chain down a Farmall 706 with a 7 foot chisel plow on it - -man, does a 706 really bounce on those spring chisels.
 
I remember my dad saying "You are responsible for securing your own load" Ive always thought of that any time I have hauled something. Overkill isnt always overkill....just more safety.
 
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