What a ride.

IaGary · Jul 2, 2011

Spraying beans yesterday I hit a tile hole that was hidden in tall grass in a waterway. The hole was about 3 ft. deep and about 4 foot across. I was traveling about 5 MPH.

My first indication that there was anything there is when my head hit the windshield of the 1086. I happen to look down just as the front wheel popped out of the hole and threw me back in the seat.

Before I could get the clutch in the rear wheel was in the hole. I looked down at the front end it appeared to be still be attached. I shifted down a couple of gears and the rear wheel crawled up out of the hole.

I thought I better get out and check for damage on the front axle when I noticed blood running off the top of my head. The little bead at the top of my seed cap opened up a small gash on my head.

Finding no cracks or damage on the front axle I decided to get back in and continue on spraying.

As I was crawling back into the cab I looked back at the sprayer and the left boom was laying on the ground.

The sudden jar from the front tire hitting the hole had snapped the boom off the sprayer.

Spent the next 4 hours welding and patching to get it going again.

I am fairly sure if that cab was not on that tractor I would have been under the tractor.

I still have a headache.

Gary

Kirk Grau · Jul 2, 2011

May have been a small gash, but I bet it bled like a river. Had a 3/8" slash on my forehead once and was walking toward the house and my wife and daughter came out and daughter fainted. I did not realize it, but blood was running everywhere. Looked pretty good.

Kirk

paul · Jul 2, 2011

That makes for a bad day!

I had 10 tile lines plowed in diagonal on a field last June, cultivated it & planted beans. As the lines sunk in, made it _very_ interesting to spray & combine that field, but I knew of it, drove slow. Was a tough field. Had one big sink hole, glad I saw it be4 combining.

No fun for sure.

--->Paul

Stan - Florida · Jul 2, 2011

Gary,

Glad to hear you only have a headache!!

Stan

twostepn2001 · Jul 2, 2011

OUCH!!!! Kinda weird tho. talkin to my son just last night and he said the same thing happened to him the other day using their terragator. Best he could figure it was a hole where somebody had dug up a old tree stump and didn't fill it back in. Said he thought he might start using the seat belt after he left his face print with some blood and snot on the cab glass.

Bryan inIowa · Jul 2, 2011

wow,,glad your ok Gary .. I hit a hole like that with uncles combine once .Real eye opener .

formerly ny bill · Jul 2, 2011

gary, i'm glad it wasn't worse. it makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Allan in NE · Jul 2, 2011

Darnit Gary,

Be careful! We're gettin' too old fer this ya know. :>)

Allan

37chief · Jul 2, 2011

Glad you are ok. Things sure happen quick don't they? Stan

thurlow · Jul 2, 2011

Most of us (the real us) have done something similar; once snapped the (single) front spindle clean off on a 220 Spra-Coupe while spraying beans. Impact pushed the platform up so that I couldn't get the door open; had to push out a window to get out. My question: how could you have possibly welded on the thing without coming on-line and asking what kind of rods would be appropriate to use? :>)

the tractor vet · Jul 2, 2011

Yep know all about holes in the ground and tractors . Years back my one buddy and i bid a job of mowing gas line wright of way , like 97 miles X4 . Over some of the roughest ground that i have ever been over . We had a 310 case dozer with three point and PTO and we rented a case 430 tractor and two 8 foot brush hogs we mowed up and down hills that a dirt bike would not climb and we mowed places that were flat as a board and long enough that you could land the space shuttle . I had the 430 on one of them FLAT places and was trying to make time and i was mowing in high third when i found a place that had washed out around the line And sheared the pin on the left ft. axle and it folded back putting the ft.end of the tractor into the dirt and with 1200 lbs of iron hanging on the ft.And digging in the tractor stopped and i went over the steering wheel and ended up standing next to the engine . It was a good thing that it killed the engine when he went nose first into the ground or i would have went thru the brush hog.Three years ago i found a tile blow out in a water way while planting corn and the corn planter did not fair so well , the tractor missed the hole that i did not see in the tall grass but the planter found it and went down and ripped the left marker clean off . plus broke the left fertilizer box .

Spook · Jul 2, 2011

I smacked my head like that a few years ago, now I don't wear caps with little buttons on top.

Spotted Horse · Jul 2, 2011

The FIRST thing I do when I get a NEW cap,.... is take the darn button OFF.

Tom in TN · Jul 2, 2011

tractor vet,

I have a TVA high voltage, high tower right of way running through my farm. About every five years they send a crew out to brush hog under the lines. My farm is very hilly and very rocky. They sent a crew out last week to clear under the lines. Four big tractors with brush hogs like I've never seen before. They tipped one of the tractors over on one of the hills. It took them four hours to get the tractor back upright.

I don't even try to navigate those hills with my little equipment.

Tom in TN

colekicker · Jul 2, 2011

I never like to wear a seat belt in/on a tractor that has one. This would be one of those times where you may have wished you were wearing one.

Fergienewbee · Jul 2, 2011

Gary;

You guys have some nasty washout out there. I've run across a few while hunting. Fortunately, I see most of them before I disapear.

Larry

Tony in Mass. · Jul 2, 2011

"I shifted down a couple of gears". Hum, the hi side of 5 mph huh? Speed kills. If not you, or your equipment, then the day. Any way you cut it, you lose.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 2, 2011

Your description reminded me of when I was a kid, and plowing with dads tractor (Ferguson F40) and a solid beam plow. I hooked a Sassafras tree root that stopped me like an arrestor cable on an aircraft carrier. For days, I had very sore ribs and the imprint of a steering wheel hub on my chest.

Farming....Who knew it was a contact sport...?

IaGary · Jul 2, 2011

When I'm going across the open field I run 8 mile an hour while spraying. So yes I had slowed down to cross the grass waterway that is normally as smooth as the field.

I shifted down to crawl the wheel out of the hole without killing the engine.

Tony are you one of them guys that runs the minimum 40 mph on the interstate?

John Harmon. · Jul 2, 2011

Your head is not that hard.Better have a doctor look at it.Head injuries are serious buisness.

John A. · Jul 2, 2011

Gary, Darn-it We are too old for this S#it. Be careful! Mark that hole for a later fill in. Now go get the 4 wheeler and take a fast run through on the rest of the ground you are to spray to see if there are any hidden obstacles that you might just need to know about before you are right on top of it, in the dead middle of another S#it Storm.
I guarantee that front glass kept you on the operators platform and not under the tractor playing Dodge the Tractor Tire. Stay safe my friend.
Later,
John A.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 2, 2011

Rminds me of the time when I was cutting wood with a chain Saw, slipped on a small round log and the saw going full speed, cut my knee,

well I put a bandage on it and kepted cutting wood, at 10 am,,, when 2 pm came, the knee would not stop bleeding after I replaced the bandage a few times, so I decided to go into the (( URGENT CARE )) just 7 miles to town

When I got there, they looked at the knee and said they were calling an AMBULANCE to take me to the Hospital,
I said (( You can't fix this little Scratch ??)) and they just looked at me funny !!!

I said, I drove here, I can drive to the Hospital, just 6 blocks away --- the Doc there said, YOU Can't make him take an Ambulance, so I drove to the Hospital, and
they fixed the cut and stopped the bleeding,

the knee is fine now,, but what a trip ....

BANDITFARMER · Jul 2, 2011

I think you should get your head checked out, Not somthing to be messen with. About 20 years ago I was plowing a field that I had done for 15 years, And hung the back bottom on a rock. A BIG ROCK! Stoped the 1850 dead in her tracks! To bad I didnt stop to, Took the steering wheel the muffler and the air stack off as I went off the front end to the ground. Dad called the life squad and 5 hours later I had 18 stiches 2 cracked rib, 2 degree burns to my chest and a concushion from hitting the ground and a very sore crotch area! For 2 weeks I didnt know who I was but I knew I was hurting. Get it check out! Bandit

keh · Jul 2, 2011

I hate dealing with rough ground. Today I was baling on a small field the original owner had plowed with a 3ph hitch subsoiler and not smoothed down. It's been years since he did it and the present owner lets me cut it for hay. Raked the hay parallel to the rows and was going pretty good until I turned around on the end. Tractor bounced seriously and i had to get a tight grip on the wheel to be able to push in the clutch. I was glad it was a cab tractor too.

KEH

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