A neighbor's driveway is on a curve, just north of my property. The curve has a slope to it. I was turning around in that area, to come back home. It was in the winter and I pressed the left brake to help it turn. The left wheel locked, the right tire seem to suddenly drive the tractor faster, the tractor slide across the road and hit the snow bank. There isn't a ditch at the edge of the blacktop. It is a dirt bank that goes up. I hit it going mostly sideways. Two rim clamps broke and the rim came off the wheel. In a snow bank, on uneven ground, in the winter, just before dark. Sucked big time. If it doesn't kill you, you will learn how not to do some things. Using brakes to turn is ok, but don't be overly aggressive when doing it. My uncle told the story of how a man would slide his loader tractor on concrete. I think the man eventually rolled the tractor. Your tractor is going to do what you make it do, even when you are not aware of what you just made it do. Like when a person turns the key, while stand along side the tractor and it starts while in gear.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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