[Farmall] Tractor rollover

[Randy Lacey]

Same thing happened at our show in SW PA about 5 years ago. Guy flip his
tractor loading. I play it safe I back my tractors on and pull them off.
My 10-20 on steel I pull on with a wrench and roll it off with the
wrench.

-----Original Message-----
From: farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Bill
"Bear" Hood
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:13 PM
To: farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: RE: [Farmall] Tractor rollover

Kay
You have my permission to reprint this and you can look at the reply to
Andy as to contributing factors.  You may print our club name, but
please do not print the individuals name at this time.  The prognosis is
good, but I would like to respect his and the families privacy at this
time.  I did publish his name in case some of you tractor guys want to
send a card--he has a long road to recovery.  Bear

Live every day of your life like a three year old.  Get down in the dirt
with it, roll in it and smile a lot.  Bear

--- kallen at texasdata.net wrote:

From: "Kay Allen" <kallen at texasdata.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: RE: [Farmall] Tractor rollover
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:22:30 -0500

Thank you for this reminder.  With your permission, I'd like to reprint
it in our club newsletter.

Kay Allen, Editor
Hill Country Antique Tractor & Engine Club
Fredericksburg, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Bill
"Bear" Hood
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:41 PM
To: Antique Tractor; Farmall 
Subject: [Farmall] Tractor rollover

Be careful out there

The Lone Star Antique Tractor and Engine assn show was this weekend was
this weekend and was the best by far for our short seven years.  BUT at
the end of the day Saturday, we has a tragic accident.

One of our members was loading a narrow front JD 720 LP row crop on his
high deck trailer and it flipped over on top of him.  He was loading
forward and parked his trailer uphill which both contributed to the
problem.  He completed a 3 year restoration on this one last week.

If the tractor had not had the LP tank, it would have crushed him
completely.  He was able to drag himself out from the fenders and was
crushed between the seats but the steering wheel did not get him.  I was
announcing the pull and saw the accident out of the corner of my eye.  I
radioed for EMS/FD who were on the grounds and ran to the site.  He was
soon being taken care of and I was able to cut the ignition on the
tractor and cut the feul off-- the tractor was still turning the wheels
in its upset position. I had to get loud to get the crowd to move back
and give EMS room to operate and privacy for the patient.   His new wife
was standing beside the trailer as this happened. 

Several mistakes were made that contributed to this accident, but the
bottom line is a friend was hurt and and will be a long time recovering.
He had lacerated liver, several broken bones, left arm lacerated from
wrist to shoulder, broken ribs, bruised lungs and hip.  He will recover,
but will be in rehab for a long time.  He was removed from the
ventilator this afternoon and faces two more surgeries on his arm in the
next ten days.  We delivered the tractor to his shop this afternoon and
are supporting his family all we can.

I posted this to remind all of you that this can happen and to remind
you to be safe in this great hobby of ours.  I have loaded tractors on
trailers for 50 years and I think I will relive this every time as we
load and use our equipment.   We can "say what if" and rehash this, but
in a split second a man was severely injured.  We have said lots of
prayers at the show grounds, last night and today. 
Be careful out there
Bear



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