Scared myself today!

Someone in my grade school class died about 10 years ago when he rolled a tractor over on a hillside on their farm.

All that weight is unforgiving if it ends up on top of you.
A former Ohio congressman (Jim Trafficant) was killed about ten years ago when his Ford 2N rolled on top of him.
 
I too, am not sure it is a wheelie, unless the pic is after it veered towards the road bank and set down.

Please don't become a statistic. https://nasdonline.org/7232/d002442/tractor-overturns.html
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I use this course to teach tractor safety at the college level: https://extension.psu.edu/national-...-operation-program-nstmop-instructor-training
 
I too, am not sure it is a wheelie, unless the pic is after it veered towards the road bank and set down.

Please don't become a statistic. https://nasdonline.org/7232/d002442/tractor-overturns.html
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I use this course to teach tractor safety at the college level: https://extension.psu.edu/national-...-operation-program-nstmop-instructor-training
I don't know much about tractors but aren't they farm implements used for working in the fields? I'm not sure road work is what they were designed for.
 
I read somewhere that every time a "General Lee" was jumped it tweaked the uni-body enough to render the car unusable
Years ago I new one of the auto mechanics from the crew that made that movie and he told me the same. He said that they loaded nearly a ton of weight into the trunk to make the car stay more or less level when they jumped it. But the weight completely buckled the car when they landed. He said that they only got one jump per car and they bought up every '68, '69 and '70 charger that they could find in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina to have enough to finish the movie. IIRC he told me that they destroyed 27 cars making the movie.
 
Many years ago when I was young and single, my friend's attractive but snooty, artsy, and high-maintenance wife* would show me photos of women in fashion magazines. The models typically looked aloof and wore stupid hats. She would say "Now this is the sort of woman you want to look for - THIS is class."

I wish I'd had this picture at the time; I would have said "No, THIS is class."

* The marriage did not last, but my friend remarried some years later, to someone much nicer.
 
Someone in my grade school class died about 10 years ago when he rolled a tractor over on a hillside on their farm.

All that weight is unforgiving if it ends up on top of you.
Same with the young woman I worked with at the tune-up shop. She died a year later when she rolled a tractor. 😥
 
I don't know much about tractors but aren't they farm implements used for working in the fields? I'm not sure road work is what they were designed for.
The very first part of your sentence is correct, the rest, not so much ;) . Tractors are very much multi-purpose.
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That's a cool Case.

I spent many hours in high school on antique tractors (Farmall H, M, Super A, John Deere A) as well as some newer machines they had on the farm I worked at. Most of the antiques had the tricycle front ends. They really aren't as dangerous as people make them out to be, you just have to be a good equipment operator and know your machine and its limitations. Farm accidents are very common, and most of the time they are due to someone trying to take a short cut or not paying attention.
 
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