And You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day

...which Saskatchewan highway did this happen at?

;-)

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Ouch !!

"THEY" are called farmers for a reason:-)))))

...speed must have been a factor.

The tiller and fertilizer pup are swung before the cab in the creek indicating a violent braking motion.

Must have been trying to avoid squishing a gopher crossing the road eh.

If the damage is too much the insurance will claim the wreck and compensate the farmer.....now when's the auction of the "junk" ;-)

I knew it was a mistake to hire Al Gore Jr. to drive farm equipment.

It couldn't have anything to do with the well maintained Sask roads now, could it?

He thinks he is having a bad day now, Wait until he gets the invoice from Calvert to fix the damage.

'Global positioning auto-steer' !!??

Farmers are deliberate and powerful. This stuff will be yarded out, dried out. bent back to shape and working again in less than two weeks. = TG

Doh!

Is there diesel and fertilizer leaking into the creek?
Enviro police soon to be here.

...nothing runs like a Deere

(into a creek.)

t couldn't have anything to do with the well maintained Sask roads now, could it?
Posted by: Jim in Calgary

It's probably got everything to do with the nut behind the wheel. What the hell do know about SK roads anyway, Jim? Is there anything more obtuse than a right-wing sock puppet?

Nothing smells like a John.

How fast can those tractors go?

"How fast can those tractors go?"

...ah, but was it on its way to plant biofuel?

Reminds me of the movie TWISTER when the tornado is dropping all that farm machinery

I blame Lorne-I never met a pothole I didn’t like-Culvert.

I just hope no one was seriously hurt.

Is there any pictures of them getting the tractor out??? Do you know how the heck that happened???

Hey Conrad, although I can't speak for Jim in cowtown, I can tell you that a heck of a lot of albertan know a frick of a lot about Sask roads. Half of them travelled on those excuses for roads getting the heck out of that Dipper province.

There is nothing really wrong with Saskatchewan that a few years of good government and capital investment couldn't cure. And yes, I have lived there.

Back on topic: This is another example of how farming is actually a pretty dangerous job. Hats off to those who work the soil.

Being born in Sask. Conrad, I know a lot about the roads. Heck I even knew enough not to vote for your buddies the dippers.

Texas, Jim, You bootlickers are just regurgitating talking points you think Kate likes to hear. Truth be told, you don't know your arse hairs from celery shreds as far as SK is concerned.

So are you trying to engage in a flame war? I will not stoop to your level. Suffice to say I lived there, have friends there, my daughter was born there and my brother still lives there. I know of what I speak and I do not lick anyone's boots.

Behead all those who don't know their arse hairs from celery shreds as far as SK is concerned!

Comrade Conrad will NOT be second-guessed by bootlicking talking point regurgitators!

Jesus, an accident, and all of you have to make a political statement out of it?
Sometimes an accident is just an accident.
Get over yourselves!!

Lee?

How fast can those tractors go?

The farm tractors I've driven down here ( not as big as a combine-puller ) can run 35 MPH easily-- which may not seem very fast, but with no suspension, tires usually filled with water ( for weight & traction ) sloppy steering gear- it feels like about 100 MPH in a pickup truck or older car. Like you are right on the verge of losing control.

I doubt if that had anything to do with bad roads. I wonder if the driver pushed in the clutch at the top of the hill and had the wild ride of Mr. Toad until he hit the guard bridge at the bottom.

Farm tractors pulling big loads don't handle very well at speeds above 50 or 60 kms/hr and could actually start to jump around enough for the driver to lose control. Just speculating though on this one. Glad it's not my outfit.

Banachek...I would think that is highly likely...thank you ...great detective work.. from... Obsessively compulsed in Alberta.

Banachek at July 7, 2007 7:55 PM

I was thinking along the same lines.

Conrad, have you ever lived anywhere but Saskatchewan? Looks like you could use a little more experience with the big wide world beyond the play pen.

Are those the scabby knees of a troll under that thing ?

Ooops, my mistake, I missed Conrads thingy.

I just want to thank Kate for posting those pics. My husband came in from the yard complaining and I showed him the pictures and his problems didn't seem so bad. It shut him right up. Maybe all farm wives should have copies on their fridges.

It looks like everyone is okay.

What is interesting is the background.

"At the Hundredth Meridian, where the Great Plains begin" - Tragically Hip

(Going East to West of course.)

That's one expensive oops - hope no one was hurt.

Driving back from S'toon one day I saw a brand new John Deere mowing the ditches through the Battle River valley. As we drove past one I commented that the driver was about to tip over. The words were barely out of my mouth when... Made the old farmer in me want to cry. Brand new tractor on fire on its side.

Probably was daydreaming trying to figure out how to right off the plasma tv in the motorhome as a farming expense.

kada: go back to school and learn the difference between "write-off" and "right off"...besides, jealousy will get you nowhere in this world.

Conrad: Only a confused socialist comrade like you could twist around something terrible like an accident into something political. I could pray that someday you are in a wreck and no one stops to help but then I'd be lowering myself to your standard so I won't. Don't be surprised if it's a right wing sock puppet that saves your sorry ass sometime down the road.

As for the accident location, I've crossed that creek hundreds of times and the highway is, in fact, almost brand new (repaved in the summer of '05). It's about 6 or 7 kms. north of Rosetown on Highway 4 heading north to Biggar.

cqcq - I don't think you grasp the logistical nightmare of what you're suggesting. Besides you're going nanny state. The photo is of something that's a rather rare occurence. Also, the tires are NOT filled with water, that freezes in the winter - I believe it's a calcium solution that's used.

I was emailed these pics a few weeks ago. I guess the it was a young fella driving and something to do with too high a gear going up the hill and he stalled the tractor out... It then rolled backward down the hill and off the bridge. Thats why the seeder is jackknifed like it is, as it went in first.

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OOOCH! I wonder if he downshifted coming down that hill and it got away? Hope no one was badly hurt.

...judging from the 'steep' hill in the first picture and the level plane in the second, me thinks it still is a speed factor.

That or it was a slow motion crash.

Heh, I had a college crony whose father farmed St. Lawrence bottom land (clay soil)in Quebec who had a tractor of that species. One spring the plow hit a large buried glacial boulder which stopped tractor dead, and the #$%& tractor dug itself into the mud up to it's axles in the time to took my friend to regain his senses and take it out of gear.

Apparently, you can learn vocabulary in several languages from your father and his friends like you wouldn't believe when they see the problem.

Remember, pulling on something stuck in glutinous soil that has just dug itself in will just get the puller self-dug in too. A Lot of manual shovel work was involved over several days.

What you're talking about cqcq is basically an "idiot" option, something you only need if you make the unwise move of taking your tractor out of gear when going down a steep hill. Nobody is going to pay an extra few grand for an option like that. Profit driven companies won't offer it, unless forced to.

If he did blow a shift (unlikely) and rolled backward into this predicament, the parking brake on the tractor should have be sufficient at the moment he stopped forward motion.

cqcq - I didn't say you said the tires were filled with water I was referring to an earlier post. Thicken up that thin skin of yours a little.

Furthermore - wth should you need brakes on equipement designed to be pulled most of it's life @ 5-8 mph dragging IN the dirt? Nanny state, one photo of one isolated incident and it's "lets pass a law" time.

More Gubmint!

Banachek, at the top of what hill? This is Saskatchewan.

That is not a hill. It is the plateau. One comes down off the plateau, oh, say 20 feet, to the flood plane created by the rivulet; and he fell off the bridge. I think he was silly or drunk, maybe both.

I took the Pics. The bridge is 2 miles west of Hiway 4 on a gravel road. He was going north and finished in the drink faceing south. That model JD will do about 18 KMs per hour ,tops.Driver got some stitches on his nogin , he claimes the tractor stalled partway down the hill.Seeder was loaded with grain and fert.

If the driver was quite young, and i would guess he was, as it looks like the unit backed into the creek.
Just imagine, either not knowing enough to step on the brakes or not being able to reach the brake pedal or even set the parking brake.
or by simply dropping the cultivator into the ground...he would have had all the brakes he needed.

At least no one was hurt....
Oh well
now he can put some red in the feild and have some green in the bank....
instead of the creek!