Could'a been worse.....I guess

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2011

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I was picking corn yesterday,going up a pretty good sized hill and the top of the hitch broke right off the tongue of the picker. The PTO pulled apart. I had 2 ropes hooked to the center link on the tractor which was chained up with a small chain. The chain let loose,but not before the rope to the draw pin in the wagon pulled and unhooked the wagon. That took off down hill backwards doubling speed about every half second. It started turning more and more til it completely turned around and started right back up hill from the momentum. The hoses popped out of the couplers,but one of'em broke a chunk of casting out of the cylinder before the coupler broke away. No other real damage,but I was sure glad there weren't any kids in the wagon and nothing or nobody behind it.
You just never know.

 

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David G

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• Oct 19, 2011

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It was good no one was hurt, you got lucky.

 

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Lloyd In South Carolina

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Wow, that sounded like a major near disater avoided. Glad your ok. Bummer on the broken parts!

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randallnMo

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• Oct 19, 2011

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'ALways has to happen when you're going "up hill" thus tripling the damage effects. Why doesn't that stuff happen out on the flat? I"ve always said that in farming, "there's always SOMETHING that's 'JUST ON THE VERGE" of being screwed up! Bet that was a pretty helpless feeling setting there on that tractor "watching the show"!

 

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Tony S.

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Once dragged a manure spreader down the road about 30 yards by the hoses. Don't know why they didn't release.

 

Brian G. NY

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• Oct 19, 2011

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" glad it wasn"t any worse!
While reading your post, I couldn"t help thinking of that old joke about a guy hoisting a barrel of bricks up a building at a construction site! LOL
Sorry!!

 

J.Wondergem

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Lucky your wagon didn't tip over. That's a big mess in it's self. Ask me how I know.

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Yep,I know too. I used to have a Uni-Harvester and when you turn with one of those pulling a wagon,it comes around pretty fast. A neighbor had an old bolster steer wagon that I was picking in one time. When I came around the end with about three quarters of a load,it started pulling awful hard. That's 'cause it was laying on its side.

When that happened yesterday,I just shut the tractor off and watched the wagon go,waiting for it to go over. By some genuine miracle,it didn't.

 

Goose

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• Oct 19, 2011

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An uncle of mine once commented about a cousin of my father's, back in the days of binding and threshing, "I swear that guy could upset a hayrack load of bundles on a level field".

Actually, it kinda summed up the guy.

 

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Nancy Howell

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Glad you"re ok.

 

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NY 986

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• Oct 19, 2011

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It makes you mad when it happens and then the next day you realize how fortunate you are that it was not far worse.

 

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Rich Iowa

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Good to hear you're ok, and that the wagon didn't go on its side. Think of it this way... now that you have parts to fix, the wife can't give you a to-do list.

 

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oldtanker

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• Oct 19, 2011

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(quoted from post at 11:59:43 10/19/11) Good to hear you're ok, and that the wagon didn't go on its side. Think of it this way... now that you have parts to fix, the wife can't give you a to-do list.

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You just gotta learn to ignor her then that list of hers don't matter!

Rick

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2011

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I had the tools with my to get the tongue out and bring it home on the tractor. Didn't take long to weld it up,then she went back up with me to put it back together,so she knows it's fixed already.

 

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Deere Scotty

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• Oct 19, 2011

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What model Picker was it? I have A New Idea; which maybe I should take a look at. I had the rear hitch welds brake once. Noticed the wagon seemed kinda far back from the husking bed; but was still attacked.

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2011

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325. Looked like it had been broke half way through on top and on one side for quite a while. I've got another one sitting here that's patched up the same place this one broke. Must be a common occurrence.

 

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Billy NY

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• Oct 19, 2011

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Glad you're ok, darned hitches, neighbor was baling across the hedgerow from us, same thing happened, luckily nothing real bad happened, broken hitch on the back of the NH315, and a wagon to get out of the hedgerow, sometimes the things we take for granted we should be looking at, you just don't think the tongue or hitch parts would ever have any problems, this baler was a clean low useage baler, a one owner that sat in a dry shed, he keeps it the same way now, who'd have thought, metal fatigue, rust or something you'd not expect to happen but it does and did.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Oct 19, 2011

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just glad no one got hurt,everthing else can be fixed, Best of luck to you in tue future, My neighbor turned over a wagon when the wheel sunk in a ground hog hole last week,

 

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36 Coupe

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• Oct 20, 2011

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I have a better Coulda been worse story.Fellow went in to our post office.Postmaster asked him he heard what happened o Will Johnson.Will was visting a married lady late one night.Her husband came home a day early.Will got beat up pretty bad.Fellow said It coulda been worse,I was there the night before.