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Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 03, 2006 at 07:17:10 from (216.208.58.144):
In Reply to: Re: Wheels and safety posted by Allan In NE on December 03, 2006 at 05:30:48:
Allan: Especially if the tractor has a cab. I briefly followed a 100 hp 4x4 NH the other day, going over potholes I swear you could almost see daylight under a rear tire at times. I watch guys around here pulling couple of large grain wagons. You'll see them coming off a field in 4 wheel drive, making a 90 degree turn onto a gravel side road. One can see the outside rear chewing gravel on road, and can further imagine back wagon still being on soft soil, those front wheels are pulling. That could flip one of those big tractors so fast, to the operator inside it would be just like a slam dunk. I use to own a Deere froestry skidder and those were on 84" wheel tread. When you loaded them up with 60-70 foot spruce that quite often put as mus as 5 ton of weight on the rear wheels, held 4' off ground by logging arch, and hanging in cables. You have to be awfully careful making turns, and any turn over 45 degrees is an absolute nono. The draft load of those long trees, will just flip you on your side. I've never had it happen, but I saw it happen one day. Man did the operator get one pounding even in a ROPS with seat belt on. He hit the ground so hard, you'd swear machine had been dropped from 50' up. Again, the front wheels keep pulling. I can see much the same thing with the tractor if those grain wagon fetch up solid.
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