Can all tractors flip over easy?

[Eagle1]

play it safe - let only a trained professional drive your tractor. Seems to be majority answer to all other problems.

 

[MossRoad]

Depends on land your using for and how much seat time under your belt.

Again, while experience makes an enormous difference, the physics of a 3 wheeled tractor and a 4 wheel tractor make the 3 wheeled tractor less stabile on slopes. Always!

Having the knowledge to know that is irrelevant to the physics. It just means you know better than to try it.

 

[IndyJay]

And that the tractor’s CG moves as it yaws, rolls, or pitches, especially when it is in motion due to centrifugal force.

Hit a bump or a hole and all bets are off.

Also comes to mind how the old 3 wheel ATVs all went away in favor of Quads. Those old three wheelers would flip in a heart beat. Basically the same tread width, same wheelbase.

 

[2manyrocks]

I thought about buying an older tractor like an 8N, but then I started reading about them flipping over. I'm sure you can use common sense be pretty safe, but I got to thinking that maybe all tractors could flip? Was looking for advice on safety. I was thinking I probably need a sub compact now because they look safer, but I could be fooling myself.

It for plowing new ground with stumps and roots, mostly the leftover roots.

Edit: I have no experience with tractors, if you couldn't tell.

There comes a point when it makes better sense to hire a dozer or excavator to root out stumps once they get to a certain size simply in order to get the job done without tearing up a tractor.

Hit a bump or a hole and all bets are off.

Also comes to mind how the old 3 wheel ATVs all went away in favor of Quads. Those old three wheelers would flip in a heart beat. Basically the same tread width, same wheelbase.

I was also thinking about the Consumer Product Safety Commission banning 3 wheelers because of all the accidents.

 

[LouNY]

Fond this nugget when searching…

And they were all wide fronts, so must be more dangerous

 

[Cycledude]

Probably the main thing that makes tricycle type tractors easier to tip over is they are usually taller than the 4 wheel stance tractors. Either way the knowledge-experience of the operator probably makes the biggest difference.

 

[tjandrews]

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That would be true if both axles were rigidly connected. But every wide-front tractor I've ever used has the front axle jointed so that on uneven ground it isn't constanly trying to twist the machine.

 

[LouNY]

There comes a point when it makes better sense to hire a dozer or excavator to root out stumps once they get to a certain size simply in order to get the job done without tearing up a tractor.



I was also thinking about the Consumer Product Safety Commission banning 3 wheelers because of all the accidents.

I was under the impression that they got banned because so many riders got their feet under the rears and they got eaten by the ride.
Also many kids got seriously injured on them from not being big enough to control and handle them.
It has been a long time since that happened.
So like any good overbearing government bureaucracy the consumer protection agency sued and got them banned.

 

[tjandrews]

Widening the rear wheelbase is a fine idea - unless you are going to plow with a moldboard plow. If the rear wheel of the tractor doesn't line up properly with the plow, you'll have no end of trouble with it.

 

[Tony H]

Just a common sense thing. Adding spacers to rear tires will give you a bit is a wider, more stable stance.