BE CAREFUL I was lucky

Glad your ok. I like the front end weight looks like good use of a 2 cylinder deere block to me.

That would have been scary. Glad you were able to think fast and bail out quickly. Thanks for posting.

Edited by Redpower1456 - 28 Dec 2010 at 11:52pm

Glad you are OK. Pretty scary for a moment. Thanks for posting ---- stuff happens fast. Ya'll take care in the New Year.

Oh how quick such a thing can happen. Glad you are ok.

.Anyone driving on a hillside needs to first get a simple tool (called by different names) so you can avoid reaching critical tilt.

Its called a tilt meter, tilt guage, clinometer, inclinometer, ect. Not expensive. Clap

Shocker it’s a NFE baffles me the guys in here that convert a perfectly good WFE and make it narrow.

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Daniel Adams wrote:

.Anyone driving on a hillside needs to first get a simple tool (called by different names) so you can avoid reaching critical tilt.

Its called a tilt meter, tilt guage, clinometer, inclinometer, ect. Not expensive. Clap

I don't know, I think that would just give a false sense of security. The guy said he was on a hill and ran into a hidden hole on the lower side. He could have very well been within the limits gauge, but still run into the whole and turn over.

It's also hard to make a blanket statement of "don't go sideways on hills". On some farms around here, you are either going up, down, or sideways on hills. There just isn't any level ground to travel, so you can't help but go sideways on a hill sometimes. A man just has to know his limitations.

Wide fronts are a little safer on hills, but it doesn't make as big of a difference as people think. All a wide front does is raise the fulcrum point of the front axle closer to the tractor center of gravity, from the ground on a narrow to the pivot point on a wide. Of course you do have the axle stops on the wide, but on a hillside, by the time you hit the stops, you are beyond the point of no return. I have seen axle stops save a turnover on level ground, but not on a hillside.

10 year old post, but still instructive... Hug

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That is so sad Chris. Accidents DO happen, it's just one of life's mysteries, but with age comes wisdom. At 14 he was the same as all of us, in his mind, indestructible. It's a shame and a great loss for his family. He wasn't old enough to have the wisdom not to do whatever it was that happened.

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I cannot tell you how DELIGHTED I am to see that you made it from that serious accident - could have been FATAL!!

You may remember in a post of mine some time back I lost a friend who was using a loader. You are never too safe.

Remember, you are on borrowed time. Make the most of it.

Good Luck! - you really have it.

Bill Long

ps: Interesting how well the tractor looks. They are TOUGH

A lot of accidents occur when running a side hill, even a moderate one on tricyle tractor and then dropping rear wheel in a hole or soft spot. Of course when I was young, never thought about that stuff. Our own family tractors were mostly wide fronts by the time I was running them, in our area there were enough hills the tall tricycle type tractors had fallen out of favor I suppose. I had a bad experience on neighbors Deere 60 when I was raking hay too fast and a rear brake locked up on an end turn. Learned not to do that again and throttle way back before turning.
Bush hogging is especially bad since the weeds hide stuff. Many a front end casting broken by dropping in a hole.
Glad you came out OK.

Edited by Rick of HopeIN - 02 May 2020 at 10:06am

1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless

As a kid back in the early sixties I was taught the only thing we ever used a narrow front was for planting and backing wagons in the shed. Wide front for everything else. That setup doesn't look save to sit in a barn let alone use.

I’m still a fan of narrow fronts. If anybody has a narrow front D19, I will gladly trade you a good wide front for it. I’ll also take any 100 series narrow fronts, and give you a wide to replace it with.

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