So I can say I'm a pro star tractor driver now. I was up at a friend's farm helping him build stuff and spent 3 days hauling dirt in a tractor with a front end loader. Thing is it was half off road and the buddy in his Bobcat was chewing everything up... made it bumpy. The real fun came driving off the road. A tractor is front heavy, and add a crapload of dirt in a shovel and it gets even front heavier. Add driving down the ditch off the road and you have yourself a REAL good time. That is until you have the load too high, and the tractor tips. Yep, I tipped a tractor. It fell forward onto the shovel. If it was low no problem, but cuz I had it high it went down hard. I bailed and landed beside it. The wheels were still going which was scary, but I was in shock and hurt my knee bad enough that I couldn't stand up so I'm lucky the buddy saved my ass by killing the engine and righting it. In the end I had a cut on one knee and a mild sprain in the other one, and the tractor was unharmed. After that I learned the RIGHT way to go down a hill and aside from great amounts of fear everytime I drove down the hill the week finished without further incident.
Lessons learned this week.
#1 - Keep the dirt low
#2 - Drive slow
#3 - Metal siding and roofing
#4 - How to change the teeth on a ditch witch
Good times
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