Not a tractor, but an International tractor reversed into a forklift that I had rented.
Being a reversed tractor, it would travel faster going backwards than forwards because the tractor's gearing was kept.
When I went to return it to where I'd rented it, I took off down the road from my house going backward for the forklift, but forward for the tractor, but sitting backward 'cause it was configured for a forklift. About the time I hit full throttle in top gear, the unit began to drift toward the road ditch. In one horrible moment, I realized I didn't know which way to turn the steering wheel, since the tractor was reversed.
I throttled down and tentatively tried the steering wheel. Thankfully, my first try was correct. I didn't even want to think about hitting a deep road ditch at 15 mph on a forklift.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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