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Re: Farmall BN rollover in Stuck and Troubled
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Posted by ken2 on August 21, 2004 at 00:21:43 from (66.84.80.94):
In Reply to: Re: Farmall BN rollover in Stuck and Troubled posted by David B on August 11, 2004 at 06:57:21:
Rollovers are easy on my land, especially with a tricycle front end. Doesn"t take much, just a second of not paying attention, or getting flustered and accidently pushing the throttle forward when you were lunging to grab it from a sudden 40 degree tractor angle and pull back. I got rid of my tricycle fronts and changed to adjustable fronts on both my Cs, I lost the turning radius, but I feel a little safer. I have hills and boulders. When a rear wheel suddenly climbs a slanting boulder hidden in waist high meadow grass or barley that you forgot was there, a tricycle front end can kill you. I have also slid my rear wheels halfwzy out the axle from the in close arrangement they had when I got the tractors. I also moved out the front ends to match them. Mowing on the side of a hill you want all the stability you can get. Stay in first gear when doing things around boulders or slopes. In other faster gears you won"t have time to react if a mistake is made. I haven"t rolled anything, but I have come close (especially during the first year I had this place and had no idea there were boulders and two foot drops in yonder meadow with all that tall grass), and people in this area (Blue Ridge Mountains) have died from both rollovers and sudden back flips. We also get sink holes in the karst topography around here and a few years back someone had one open up under their H. That"ll test your reflexes.
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