I just got a grant to convert one of my corn fields back into grass and with all the rain it has really put us back on getting fields tilled. It was dry in some spots today, so I put the old single bottom plow on the Kubota and throught I would see how it would do rolling sod over. It was doing okay until on the lower part of a hill I popped my tire up out of the furrow. This was fine, but as I cranked the wheel to reenter it, over it went...the slowest roll-over I ever experienced. I just stepped off the tractor as it was headed onto its side. Fortunately the bucket was down low enough, and the furrow side kept the tractor from really flopping over. I also had the skidder about 500 feet away so it was not a big deal to flop it back down with all four wheels on the ground. I know it is impossible to flop a bulldozer over, but apparently not a farm tractor. This is the first time in 43 years of farm life that I ever flipped one over. I know, I know...pictures or it never happened. Here are the pictures!
I know I talk a lot about my skidder, but have never posted a picture of it. Katie snapped a few of it behind my wood pile as I was going to flop my tractor back over. Its not much, a 1979 664-C Clark skidder, with automatic tranny, 3 forward gears and 3 reverse. Limited slip on both axels and weighs about as heavy as my ex-wife...12,000 pounds. It does pretty good pulling wood out though, about 1 cord per twitch with 7 chokers.
You need to settle down.... Recently ya tried to give yourself a Texas Chainsaw makeover.... Sheesh, there ain't no award for most damage to self and property Be more carefuller LT...
I don't have a cell phone. They say that 93% of Americans have a cell phone, so that makes me a 7%'er. The way I figure it, that just puts me 6% closer to being a 1%'er!
On Monday I cut my chin with my chainsaw (but not bad), then I got an infection in my gum from a tooth that was extracted on Friday, then I flipped my tractor over today...all this and it is only Tuesday. By Friday I will have a meeting with the undertaker at this rate!
My grandpa didn't flip it over@LodgedTree but hung up on a stump. I'm a John Deere guy, but really liking the Kubota's.
Yeah I probably should, being on my 8th life and all. Not much I could have done differently here as it is hard to watch your plow and where you are going all at once. usually the front wheel stays in the furrow but climbed the cut for some reason. Part of the problem I think is that last year the rims rusted through from the calcium chloride that leaked around a valve stem. We puled the tires off and rebuilt the rims, but could not find out liquid tire pump hoses. We found the pump, but the hoses were gone, so we never reloaded the tires. The dealer wanted $1000 per tire to dismount, remount and add beet juice to the tires for additional weight. I am not paying 2 grand just for extra ballast. But I think that contributed to the problem of flopping it over on its side.
