Yesterday after work my youngest son and I took the loader off my Mahindra 8560 and hooked to the round baler to get it ready for this year. Knew that we had a hydraulic hose leaking (short hose that hooks to the door lift). We got everything out of the way so we could see the hoses, could not see where it was leaking, started the tractor, moved the hyd. lever and found out very quickly which hose was leaking. We removed the hose and today after work I went to the hydraulic shop and got a new one made. After supper I went out to put the hose back on but the tractor was gone. Got to the shop and found tractor and baler had rolled down a hill and into the side of a storage trailer. Bent the brush guard around, crushed the grill, hood ruined and broke the windshield . When I bought it 4 1/2 years ago had to insure it for full coverage for the financing. I have paid it off but kept the insurance I will find out tomorrow how good the insurance is. I am sure no one else on here has ever forgot to set the parking brake. By the way the tractor sat there for over 24 hours before it started to roll because I saw it in front of my shop when I got in from the Hydraulic shop.
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Larry EC-OH
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That kind of bites....
Gravity keeps on working no matter what.
Thank goodness no one was hurt.
Gravity keeps on working no matter what.
Thank goodness no one was hurt.
Billy Shafer
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Friend of mine did that with an old grain truck. We worked on it one day got it running. Left it for the night. He got up the next morning truck was gone. But there was a new door in the barn.
showcrop
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I watched that happen once to a friend's tractor. I parked it for just a minute while I was preparing to hook it to something. I was leaving it running on a very slight grade. I couldn't find the parking brake so I turned the front wheels so that they were pointed up hill. In less than a minute the front wheels had turned themselves downhill and the tractor started to roll. It didn't go thirty yards before going into some brush and there was no damage.
Kickinbull
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Years ago in winter the feed delivery driver locked the brake and step inside to get check for the feed. When he went back outside truck was not in sight. It rolled down hill ran thru a gate. The gate post caught on the platform of feed body. Stopped it.
When I was a kid, maybe 10 years old my uncle was getting some new Harvestore silos put up. The semi the hauled everything in on was parked up by the barn and one day it decided it was done being parked. Rolled down the gentle slope right into my aunt and uncle's house. Damage was limited to the kitchen which was an add-on but it was pretty well destroyed.
Helping a neighbor with silage a few years back, the chopper unhooked from a wagon and hooked to a new one that Sam had just taken out. He stopped the chopper driver for a few minutes to talk, and climbed onto his tractor to hook up to the full wagon. Just when he started to move, so did the full, yet unhitched wagon. We were at the top of a hill, and ten tons or so starts to move quickly. It gained speed as it went through a barbed wire fence, taking a thousand feet or so of staples out as it tightened the wire. It headed directly toward a stream that cut across the pasture in the bottom If it had been on an adjacent road, it was well over the speed limit as it went over the creek bank. It hit the bank on the other side, and the running gear and unloading box crumpled up like a JA Pan car hitting a wall. The load of silage headed to the front and took out the top two beaters and bent the lower one. The sides bulged out some like the fool that won the hot dog eating contest, and about half pf the load went about fifty feet or so past the wagon on the other side of the branch. The carcass of the wagon now rusts in peace behind Sam's tool shed......
Goose
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Several years ago, a local farmer parked his old pickup in front of the bank and went in to do some business. It was the kind of old beater pickup that you never bother to take the key out of.
He came out of the bank and the pickup was gone. His first thought was that one of his buddies had driven it around to the other side of the block. Then he found out what actually happened.
He'd forgotten to shift into Park. All by itself, the pickup rolled down the block, started down a hill, rolled three blocks downhill, across a railroad track, and rolled to a stop on the lawn in front of an Oerscheln's store, a trip of some six blocks total. It apparently didn't hit a thing on the way, even though this was on a heavily travelled state highway.
They never did find anyone who even saw it.
He came out of the bank and the pickup was gone. His first thought was that one of his buddies had driven it around to the other side of the block. Then he found out what actually happened.
He'd forgotten to shift into Park. All by itself, the pickup rolled down the block, started down a hill, rolled three blocks downhill, across a railroad track, and rolled to a stop on the lawn in front of an Oerscheln's store, a trip of some six blocks total. It apparently didn't hit a thing on the way, even though this was on a heavily travelled state highway.
They never did find anyone who even saw it.
Years ago I heard Dad tell a story about a situation he had heard about. The vehicle owner parked their car at the top of their drive. When the went out the next morning, the car was gone. They called the cops, and it was reported stolen as there was no evidence of anything other than it was gone.
Several years later the area had a drought, and the pond across the road from the end of their driveway began drying up. Low and behold there sat their car, off in the middle of the pond.
When they checked out the car, they found that the parking paw in the transmission had broken, and allowed it to roll all the way down the drive, and into the pond.
Several years later the area had a drought, and the pond across the road from the end of their driveway began drying up. Low and behold there sat their car, off in the middle of the pond.
When they checked out the car, they found that the parking paw in the transmission had broken, and allowed it to roll all the way down the drive, and into the pond.
larry@stinescorner
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no one was hurt,,that is what matters most,tractors can be fixed or replaced
gene bender
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Now it would have left tracks going into the pond how could they miss that
In our area we logged some very steep hillsides, one day my cousin had one tree hooked to the dozer and stopped at the top of the hill to hook up another, he did not set the brake thinking if nothing else the tree would act as a brake. While he was working on the second tree the dozer started to roll, I was working below, saw it, and yelled a warning. He ran and jumped on the winch, worked his way around to the seat and just as he was going to apply the brake the dozer hit the tree I had been next to when I saw it start to roll. He was ejected, flew over the machine (blade was all the way up and that is what hit the tree) did a tuck and roll landing is all the cut off limbs from a previously cut hemlock which cushioned his landing. He did not even suffer a scratch and we went back to work.
Not where it happened but we did log the hillside in this picture and the farm to the right of this view.
Not where it happened but we did log the hillside in this picture and the farm to the right of this view.
Bruce from Can.
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Silage wagons are bad for run a ways . My cousins had several wagons , and while the dad was chopping the son would run wagons . empty wagons where left at each end of the field , and when the wagon behind the chopper was full , the chopper guy could change wagons and continue . by mid afternoon the chopper would have filled more wagons than the fella running wagons could empty , and by the time the wagons where all empty it was time to milk.
Well this one day the dad had just changed a full wagon for a empty , and started back chopping . All of the sudden he caught a glimpse of a wagon going by , and you guessed it . The full wagon smashed head on into another empty wagon , destroyed both forage boxes.
Well this one day the dad had just changed a full wagon for a empty , and started back chopping . All of the sudden he caught a glimpse of a wagon going by , and you guessed it . The full wagon smashed head on into another empty wagon , destroyed both forage boxes.
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
Things happen in a moment.Back in the 60's a local farmer had bought new IH tractor and baler his hired hand was baling got off the tractor to check something on the baler,brake jumped off the tractor or never set the brake and it and the baler went over a cliff at the edge of the field into the river below totaled both.The hired hand left and went home knew he was fired.
1948CaseVAI
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Much luckier than the guys who left this feed truck unsecured. The lawsuits will go on for years.
http://www.kansas.com/news/state/article66279717.html
K Effective
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My first vehicle was a 1972 Toyota LandCruiser FJ40 inherited from my Uncle, who drove it when stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. USMC shipped it to me when he retired. Stick shift, I parked it in first gear, Dad cautioned me about using the parking brake, since it was rusted from living in the salt air. I used to transport the neighbor girl to and from school, and she liked to sit close to me, to stay warm in the soft-top -only vehicle, of course. Well, best I can figure, getting out at our house, she might have kicked the transfer case into Neutral, because a couple hours later the other neighbor lady called and asked why I had parked in the cul-de-sac. There it sat, still in gear, moved about 50 feet down the driveway into the road. After that, we fixed the parking brake.
Case Nutty 1660
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Glad no one was hurt other than some repairable damages,, I loaned a SC Case to a neighbor to pull a hay rake years ago, they got done with it and brought it back,, the guys son drove it here and parked it, he did engauge the hand clutch But neglected to leave the transmission in gear,, it sat there 4 days or more, I came back from the hay field and seen it was ,,gone,, it had rolled down the hill about 400 feet and had ran the RH rear tire along my soon to be wife's Trans Am,, doing 1500 plus damage to it,, it could have been far worse had it not turned a bit tot he left
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jdknut2350
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The ultimate in forgetting to set the parking brake occurred a few years ago in a small town in Quebec, Canada when a train driver parked a train loaded with crude oil for the night, and forgot to set the brake, or whatever you do on a train to secure it, and then later on that nite the train rolled into the town, derailed and then blew up most of the town. I'll bet when he heard the "boom!" outside his hotel room he might have began to wonder??
37chief
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Glad no one was hurt. Now you will find out how good your insurance is. They roll real easy when not in park, or the brake set. Stan
I assume the ground was dry at the time so no one saw any tracks.
With that in mind, I watched a thing on TV the other night where they see things in pictures taken from a satellite, and 'investigate' them.
In one they had a strange looking object show up in a pond sitting in the middle of a small town. Enhancements of the picture, etc, made them suspect it was a car.
When they got on site, it turned out to be the car of a man who had disappeared, without a trace, quite a few years before....along with what was left of his body inside.
They never did figure out how he got from the road, into the pond, without leaving any kind of trail that would have been seen when looking for him after he had been declared missing.
In the end it I guess it all comes down to 'crap happens'.....
With that in mind, I watched a thing on TV the other night where they see things in pictures taken from a satellite, and 'investigate' them.
In one they had a strange looking object show up in a pond sitting in the middle of a small town. Enhancements of the picture, etc, made them suspect it was a car.
When they got on site, it turned out to be the car of a man who had disappeared, without a trace, quite a few years before....along with what was left of his body inside.
They never did figure out how he got from the road, into the pond, without leaving any kind of trail that would have been seen when looking for him after he had been declared missing.
In the end it I guess it all comes down to 'crap happens'.....
MattCatlin
Member
One thing I like about the syncroshift on my deere 4010, it has a park and wont start in neutral. I have started a ford 8n in gear and a farmall cub in gear while not on the seat (terrible practice), good way to get run over and no fun chasing after an unpiloted tractor. My ground is flat or I am sure Id have done just this.
MattCatlin
Member
Jmore I am 44 a 73 model. That N is a 1950. I'm not the
original purchaser lol. You are correct the original foot starter
has an interlock, my tractor came with a little push button
starter and no lock when I got it and I never changed it.
original purchaser lol. You are correct the original foot starter
has an interlock, my tractor came with a little push button
starter and no lock when I got it and I never changed it.
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