I'd be curious -- Anyone ever have a tractor go up on three wheels and tip over while they're on it?

The John Deere Manual stresses "Don't Jump!"

The tractor has a "roll bar" and a seat belt. I keep the seat belt fastened, even on level ground with no load.

I understand the part about putting the loader bucket on the ground to stabilize the rig when it tips.

But I work on uneven ground, pastures, on slopes, with loads. I understand the part about "drive up and down the incline, not 'across' the incline" . . . I understand that part. But there are some spots where it's a toss up.

I've skied. I understand about the "fall line."

Still, I find myself moving across the pasture REALLY slow . . . 1 mph or less, creeping along, and the damned wheels hit a low spot, the rig leeeeeeeeans over really slow and my butt puckers.

The other day I had a short log on the forks of the loader, pushing it into a slash pile, and the damned rig went up on three wheels -- steep!

Forks were impinged in the load and not readily available to get back down on the ground for stability.

Rig is tippin' . . . and swayin' . . .

And my reaction, gut level, self-preservationist, is to jump clear -- even though I'm strapped in with the seat belt.

I asked Fred at the shop, "How far will it tip before it goes over?"

"I've never been there. And I'm not going."

Anyone "been there" ???

Yes many times------on the smaller machines as well as the row crop ones when shredding or plowing the side of a hill have the bucket as low as it will go without touching the ground and have some large rocks or dirt in it..

If you have a smaller tractor 50hp or so it may make sense to fill the rear tires with a water/antifreeze solution. Also can have the tires filled with a semi solid silicone type solution but that is expensive.

did once on an old narrow front allis , it tipped all the way over and landed ontop of me. fortunately it happened when one tire hit a really low depression and i landed in the depression with the tractor ontop, but not touching me.

I wonder about the people who have them tip over and don't live to post about it . . .

I had a friend in high school who was pulling an old rotary hoe down the gravel with a narrow front end, an "M" if you know what that is.

Our football caoch was follwing him and saw that the tractor and hoe started to oscillate hard and head for the ditch.

My friend tried to jump off, but it looked like to the coach that he got his foot caught and landed in front of the hoe which rolled over him and killed him.

The tractor ended up in the ditch upright, so if he just would have stayed on, he would have been alright.

I had a Troy Built lawn garden tractor that I tipped over backwards. I kicked it off me and it landed beside me with a big clunk and cloud of smoke. I got it upright and started mowing again. I only had to change a couple of body panels and it looked about as good as new.

Not "lawnmowers" -- tractors, PTO's, differential locks, 4WD . . .

I'm not dismissing the fact that having the lawnmower roll over is dangerous, but I'm worried about the tractor. I work on sloped ground, uneven, and it gets wet.

Just a "small one" but weighs a ton -- literally, and gets tippy with a load.

zedo look a article called ,,Room To Live,,,,always wear your seat belt and keep your hands on the steering wheel,,,,yea it sucks bbut less than the hospital..the worst problem withe the older JD tractors was when they would overpower and flip over backwards,that would get really nasty...khh

i have never tipped, but i have intentionally had it on the back wheels on numerous occasions.
it was a 70hp, 3.5ton tractor

Tractors aren't the only things that can tip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWV5lhStwl0

Does a 9510 John Deere Maximizer combine count?

Not myself but I once had a friend who did. He was 45 and had just retired to a farm after a career as a Marine officer. Good man, great loss.

A few years back, the Jackson, WY police chief had a tractor tip over going down his his driveway. The bucket was up too high, he slid into a post, crushed his chest and died.

One of the fields that I plowed has a shallow wash in it with no soil only hard clay in the bottom. The section harrow had very little drag on the down slope entering the wash. The governor would close due to the lack of load going down hill and as it began to roll up slope I would pull the throttle wide open. As the International H tractor began to pull the load up slope the governor would go wide open and the front wheels would lift off of the ground and hold about a foot in the air for 20 to 30 feet. This exercise happened every time I crossed the wash.
I eventually cut a corner too tight with 6 sections of harrow dragging and the chain caught on on wheel dragging the harrow up on the tractor. I got down between the tire and steering wheel as I got on the clutch and brakes awkwardly. The section harrow crashed down on me as the tractor rolled to a stop.
I got a knot on my head but the steering wheel caught most of it. I hit the kill switch and climbed out from under the harrow and looked around to make sure no one was looking.
After getting my self composed I climbed ip on the left 13X38 tire and lifted part of the harrow off before the tire was punctured.
I eventually got it all back on the ground and resumed going in circles. Never did that again and never told my grandfather.

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Posted 11 November 2008 03:07 Hide Post
I wonder about the people who have them tip over and don't live to post about it . . .

Many more than will respond here.