I'm glad noone was hurt . put a floor mat or something similar mid chain so if it does break it will be slowed down at least. We had a chain break as they were trying to pull out a loaded tandem that got hung up. It ended up going through front windshield and stopping inches from his face. He got very lucky . I tried to push for them to buy a inertia rope to put make it safer to pull the trucks out. That winter they also had a chain break and it flung back at the loader and took out the grill and dam near the back up camera( the loader wasn't even a year old)
Northern farmer I had a friend a few years ago he got stuck with his tractor call a neighbor to come pull him out chain broke went threw front window and killed my friend...so yes it's a crappy day when you get stuck but no one got hurt...keep on keeping on and stay safe
We broke our tow rope this spring pulling out a buried tractor. It didn't hit anything or anyone, but that chance is always there. You always need to keep it in the back of your mind when you're on a recovery mission.
I had a cleves come through the back window of a 8960 john deere last year. I was pulling a truck out and the pin broke. We use a large rope like you had. It hit me in arm and broke my arm. I seen it just before it hit the window
That's a pain, but lucky that the main windscreen isn't damaged. Did the same thing myself once when a neighbour was towing me out, chain snapped and flipped over the roof of my his tractor and smashed through the windscreen. But I was damn relieved it didn't smash his face!
what did the small glass end up costing you? the one on my 7240 cracked in the heat and i've been debating if it's worth replacing before i absolutely have to. that fibreglass piece probably cost quite a bit too
still expensive for the size but not too crazy i guess. not at all surprised on that fiberglass. it's fiberglass and it's CIH so yeah you're gonna pay. hell they wanted something like $350 just for one of the steps i noticed your fender took a hit too, was that from the chain or previous damage? at least it doesn't look too bad CIH has been getting kinda crazy on parts for us lately. i had to pay about $800 to replace the inclined auger u-joint on my 2366 yet i know someone in the US that paid less then half that. getting to the point i'm gonna start going green
that's a bad day for sure.!!! when we use a rope or cable we throw an old tarp or blanket over it about half way. it seems to stop it from flying up as bad.
we had a clevis break and the tow rope sling shot it through the tow tractors window and hit the operator in the back. inches from killing him--he has issues with his shoulder still. i watched it happen---makes me super cautious every time we pull something out now.
Yeah that's the danger with those bungee straps... they get a little age on them or try to pull something too stuck or too heavy for them or both and that's what happens... Gotta be careful with that sorta thing it can kill you! My BIL had a near miss last year went to pull out an Amish neighbor's silage wagon that sank to the axles in wet ground with the Case 4WD and they hooked a stout chain from the tractor to the tongue around what they thought was a good hitch pin... He started pulling and the pin broke in half and the chain snapped back and sent a chunk of the pin through the back glass right over his seat and steering wheel and stuck it in the front glass... Rear glass shattered and the pin was stuck in the spiderweb of the front glass. By sheer luck he'd leaned over to get something or do something in the cab when it happened or it would probably have struck him square in the back of the head... Which many times is fatal. There was a little boy riding in the tractor with his Grandpa down in Mississippi or Alabama last year or 2 years ago I was reading about... Grandpa was pulling a tandem disk behind his tractor disking the field and he drove through a swale or something and it flexed the hitch, and put most of the weight of the disk on the leveling screw handle, compressing the giant leveling spring attached to the tongue... it snapped off the handle and part of the leveling screw, and shot it like from a cannon straight through the back glass of the cab... the tractor was making a slight turn at the time and so it came through the back glass and hit the little boy and killed him outright... If he'd been going straight it would have hit the grandpa in the back and killed him. That's why those disks with leveling screws and big springs to put pressure on the tongue to raise the front gang of the disk to keep it from cutting too deep, that have the handle and spring pointed at the operator, are a bad design... some have them pointed straight up or something with the crank on top, but many have them at various angles or straight forward with the handle pointing towards the operator... Not good. Later! OL J R :)
The bungee strap was 100,000 pound rated.. but it was hooked up to a piece of shit chain that had one of those fixable links on it... I didnt know it at the time.
And that curved glass is pretty hard to replace our mx5240 door glass broke and we don't know why and and the glass is curved not it has the top clear and the bottom part clear blue it has a seam in the middle and the door hinges aren't the nest either so you can't slam the door or else you can't get in from the outside lol
Yea our mx 135 door broke 4 times already... costs 600 bucks each time... the last time was my fault though...I hate that they are all glass and no frame.
Oh my goodness, please please please, you can't be careful enough with chains, if that had have been a few centimetres of a difference in the pulling tractor the trajectory could have meant it come very close to the guy in the Magnum and if it did theyd have absolutely no chance of survival
You dad drove tractors long before there were cabs on tractors, that's how he can drive the tractor with broken windows, he's snot spoiled like you are , LoL......... If you have anything less than 3/8 chain laying around, throw it away or melt it down.
my old boss did the side window on a 7120 with a mower when I was mowing he told me to leave in front of the barn then he changed his mind and decided to mow it later took out the window with a rocm
The chain had one of those screw on type links in it and I didnt know... and those are crap... I have a brand new towing chain now... that sucker wont break.
a friend of mine when we were a lot younger was pulling a car out from being stuck & he was standing back by the car another person was inside & chain broke hit his leg & that also broke NOW that's a bad day
If your really going to be serious about your channel buy a camera and stop using your phone. You could have something fantastic but not with using your phone. Keep on farmin👍
+Northern farmer To me the only problem (if you could call it that this is meant as constructive criticism as I've just found your channel and love it and am subbing right away so much potential) but anyway if my theories are correct you're using the stabilisation feature RU-vid offers? Ignore it completely!! Makes the camera seem to lag. I may be wrong though if I am ignore me lol
