My hired man came across a very rough twin RR track crossing in the dark with the loader bucket quite high in the air (looking under the bucket to see) and a hay mower/crimper on the rear. The tractor started hopping from front to back and entered a very steep and deep ditch. It came to rest with the top of the cab in a drainage tile intake hole, smashing in the tin whistle in the process.. The ROPS structure probably saved my man's life, and his bruised up, and scraped up, but otherwise OK, thank God..
The mower was not able to get past the tractor, and was on the near side of the road ditch wall, nearly standing on end, with the hitch shoved about 3 ft. into the floor of the ditch. My friend and neighbor brought over a 924 Cat end loader and we were able to remove the hay mower/conditioner and put it on a trailer. The tractor we got upright and in the field next to the ditch. Just now we were able to put the right rear wheel back on and top off the fluids and drive it back to the shop. Insurance man to fallow. Pics to if I can figure out how to get them on this new computer with windows 8.1 that sucks.... from my phone.
The man is going to be fine, and the tractor and accessories will fix as well. But not the kind of weekend I really wanted. Heck I just finished planting last Thursday, and am spraying corn and soon soybeans as fast as we can...
Regards, Kirk