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Things you don't like to do with your tractor

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I have a couple things I dislike happening. One is mowing dry grass on a hill, and the tractor starts sliding. It eventually stops, but I don't like the feeling of not having control. Another thing is stopping almost to the top of a hill, and the tires start spinning. Growing up without snow. We would get card board and find a fairly steep hill with dry grass. You can really get up some speed. Just watch out for the rocks on the first run. Stan
 
Digging out trees with the Ford 4500 backhoe on a hill or having to stop on a hill, no brakes. Having to use the woods mower under trees branches with the Ford 6610 (hit in the face), I fixed that problem with the pole saw. Having to back the New Holland 489 haybine into the shed with the Ford 4110 with no room for error (I have three inches on each side, I have to use the brakes to steer going up or down hill). The 1950 John Deere A, I don't and the 1950 Ford 8n, I have nothing that I don't like doing.
 
(quoted from post at 11:22:02 06/11/20) I have a couple things I dislike happening. One is mowing dry grass on a hill, and the tractor starts sliding. It eventually stops, but I don't like the feeling of not having control. Another thing is stopping almost to the top of a hill, and the tires start spinning. Growing up without snow. We would get card board and find a fairly steep hill with dry grass. You can really get up some speed. Just watch out for the rocks on the first run. Stan
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Let someone else drive them. Last Week a guy who drove my 2030 with krone rotary rake hit a power pole. I cannot understand how he did it, but it surely was not his fault according to him. Broke the deflector right off
 
[b:c0d58675c5]Things you don't like to do with your tractor:[/b:c0d58675c5]

Run out of fuel

Find a skunk

Find a hole

Find a log

Find a bog

Find my truck (that wasn't even lost!)

Locate that hidden Yellow Jacket nest



....I have LOTS of fun on my tractor!! *sigh*
 
I was about 8-9 years old. We had a little 2-3 acre odd shaped patch of oats at the other farm to combine. The Super M-TA was on the combine, a #25 Deere. Dad hooked the '51 M to our wagon, normally would have used the H. This patch of oats was one steep hill. I followed the combine with the empty wagon, hopper gets full and I pull up under the unloading auger, then Dad takes off and I follow till I'm at the top of the hill so I can watch the combine the whole round, I push the clutch in, shift to neutral, and snap the left brake on. The left wheel slides just a tiny bit, gets some dry straw under it and Dad is across this little patch watching ME slide His Favorite M down the steepest hill on the farm with the left rear wheel sliding and right rear wheel spinning 20 mph! About half way down I got the brake released, started braking both rear wheels lightly, the hill got less steep and I slowed, and stopped before getting to the creek. Dad didn't say anything while we were combining, or unloading the oats, or doing chores, but walking into the house he asked, "Did you learn anything this afternoon?" YEP, straw is slicker than ice!
 
Skunks are one smelly thing, but with the swather, ive gotten a hen mallard that wouldnt get off her nest and a set of twin whitetail fawns that I didnt see. Both of those really got to me.. thought i was doing ok, till the next day when the doe kept pacing back and forth looking for her fawns... I had to go to quit swathing for the rest of the day...
 
I don't like mowing down to the pond. The brakes don't work well enough to completely stop it. I have to shift from reverse to forward at the right time and sometimes it hangs and doesn't shift. I've run the bush hog completely under water before and then had to stop and get a bigger tractor to pull the tractor out of the pond.
 
Certainly operating a tractor on a slippery sidehill is one of the most dangerous things you can do, and it has killed or crippled countless operators. But operating around grape vines is right up there; I'm talking about wild grapes, whose two inch diameter vines climb trees that are seventy feet tall or more. The way vines can kill you is limited only by your imagination: They can pull branches out of trees that then fall on your head. They can snatch you out of your seat and into the path of your brush hog. They can snag tractor controls and cause the tractor to do something you don't want it to do. And the list goes on.
 

Don't like taking it into the woods. Too much ballast on rear and I make ruts in wet spots. Too little and I don't get out of the woods.
Gerrit
 
I can relate to skunks but with combines, I hit 2 different skunks with 2 different combines in 2 days. The first one was so bad my eyes burned and I almost puked.
 
getting stuck in mud done that sliding down steep hill with bushog yes stuck in snow blocking public road yup best was son and I stacking hay on wagon wife on tractor the baler hitch broke off we were rolling down hill to swamp and wife never looked back to see she found us on her next round many good memories thanks all
 
(quoted from post at 04:33:45 06/12/20) getting stuck in mud done that sliding down steep hill with bushog yes stuck in snow blocking public road yup best was son and I stacking hay on wagon wife on tractor the baler hitch broke off we were rolling down hill to swamp and wife never looked back to see she found us on her next round many good memories thanks all
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Karlin, that is a good one! nearly the same happened to me years ago, but it was a short distance and my wife did look back.
 
Running over fawns #1 I was cleaning up the edge of the fields and was careful because the guy that just cut the hay the day before hit one. Yellow jacket nest in the ground 27 bites to the back not quite fast enough
 
(quoted from post at 11:24:25 06/12/20) Pushing snow,total waste of time,fuel and effort
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Snow in central VA? Yeah of course it is a waste of time to push there. It will be melted away by 11:00 the next day.
 
(quoted from post at 15:02:46 06/12/20) Really? You don't know much about this area,28" at one time a few years ago plus our snow is heavy and wet hard to move not like the fluffy dry stuff up North.
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I was there for a major snow event twelve years ago. I was getting off 64 at Richmond with only two inches. I had a line build up behind me because I slowed for the exit. When I got onto the exit ramp there were tracks on the ground where probably ten vehicles had slid up over the curb and used the guard rail to bring them around the curve. I made it around the curve no problem, and brought all the vehicles following me safely around..... You're welcome!
 
Ever the expert,I'm in a whole different climate in the mountains than is Richmond,suit me if I never saw any snow again hate the stuff.Two ski resorts near me BTW.
 
(quoted from post at 16:46:27 06/12/20) Ever the expert,I'm in a whole different climate in the mountains than is Richmond,suit me if I never saw any snow again hate the stuff.Two ski resorts near me BTW.
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Snowshoe and what is the other? My daughter skied at Snowshoe when she was at Tech.
 
I didn't like cultivating small corn and beans. That is where I learned to take 15 minute naps that lasted a lot longer.
 
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