Why your tractor won't go.

[Cliff_Johns]

Why your tractor won\'t go.

So you put your tractor in gear or you step on the hydro pedal and it either doesn't go, or it acts like it really doesn't want to go and you're sitting there wondering why, here are some possibilities.

Likely reasons checklist:
1) Parking brake is on.
2) The FEL is on the ground (maybe with some down pressure)
3) Your 3pt implement is on the ground.
4) Your tires are frozen to the ground.
5) You're in nutral
6) Your backhoe is hooked on something or you forgot to pull up the stabizers.
7) You've driven over a stump or rock and it's caught on somehthing (probably something fragile).


Other reasons:
1) You forgot to start it.
2) You wish you had a tractor, but you're actually sitting on the ground going "Voom Voom"
3) You ran out of fuel.
4) Your spouse chained up a 47" diameter oak tree to your axel and pad locked it.
5) There's a deep pool of some kind of oil beneath your tractor.
6) It's not your tractor, and you're stepping on the break thinking it's the hydro pedal.
7) That loud bang you heard a moment ago was your two minute warning and your two minutes are up.


Make sure you figure it out before you just use more power.

Cliff

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Not that I know who did this, but when someone tried to back my Kubota off the trailer there was still one strap securing the tractor to the front end of the trailer /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[KiotiJohn]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( So you put your tractor in gear or you step on the hydro pedal and it either doesn't go, or it acts like it really doesn't want to go and you're sitting there wondering why, here are some possibilities. )</font>
Or you have the clutch locked in the depressed postion so you can start it while standing on the ground and forget to unlatch it. John

 

[SCB]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Now that's funny! I don't care who you are! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JerryG]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Turn off the PTO.

 

[grandad]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Not that these ever happened to me, of course, but

8) You drove over some branches the wrong way and got one wedged in the linkage from the pedal to the HST.
9) You misjudged the end of the FEL and have it snagged on a tree, fencepost, mailbox, culvert, corner of the house or the rear bumper of the CFO's car.
10) The ROPS really doesn't fit in your garage, or you forgot to fold it down.

 

[Casco1]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Thanks I needed This. Ive been pushing snow for the state and private jobs for what seems like the last two weeks and my brain feels a little spongy. After reading your posts I'm sitting here laughing out loud. Thanks again /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

Oh, I forgot an important one:

8) You forgot to insert the quarter.

Cliff

 

[Mith]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

the wheels fell off /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[rozett]

Re: Why your tractor won\'t go.

I've "heard" that it happens to gear-drive tractors also. Especially when you run over a recently pulled stump and it retaliates by jumping up and ripping the hydraulic filter right off the tractor. But it's only a rumor.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif