Tree cutting accident

[WinterDeere]

I apparently bumped the range lever, on my Kubota B3200, into neutral and zoooommed down the slope I went.

Glad to hear I'm not the only owner of a machine whose range lever is alarmingly easy to accidentally bump into a neutral position. I've had more than one work partner using my machine unknowingly and accidentally bump that stupid lever into neutral while hopping onto or off of the machine, and have to come find me to ask why the stupid machine won't move. I've always wondered what would happen if my arm or hip ever accidentally dragged the lever out of gear on a hill. Now I know!

These machine manufacturers should be held to task for such a stupid and potentially-dangerous design.

 

[RandyT]

New a guy a few years ago that had a tractor that would bump the shifter into neutral if you got off of the seat. Was driving down a hill and stood up to have better visibility and it safety bumped into neutral and went flying down the hill.

 

[WinterDeere]

Yikes! I guess I never really had to look at a 4wd HST hard enough to figure out if they're configured like a pickup truck, with the transfer case downstream of the transmission. If so, then knocking the tranny into neutral would not cause you to lose 4-wheel braking, assuming the machine is in 4wd.

 

[riptides]

From FB, not sure if it is real or not. But yeah...could happen.

 

[MossRoad]

From FB, not sure if it is real or not. But yeah...could happen.

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Well...

As long as no one got hurt, then

 

[dodge man]

Interesting way to store your tractor out of the way.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

From FB, not sure if it is real or not. But yeah...could happen.

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Fake.
I'm far from expert however:
Where are the tractor tire prints?
("But it happened and THEN it snowed!")
There's no snow on tractor.

 

[riptides]

Fake.
I'm far from expert however:
Where are the tractor tire prints?
("But it happened and THEN it snowed!")
There's no snow on tractor.

Check out YouTube. Seems real.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

From FB, not sure if it is real or not. But yeah...could happen.

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Not fake, that has been on TBN before with a story how it happened.