On Dangerous Ground

Is there any sticky situation that you can’t find a way out of! Those trucks look heavy, would have made a big splash..

Believe me, I have been in a lot worse; but, when it gets that bad, I ain't got time to be taking photos.

These photos do not do justice as to just how slick and slippery the situation was; when a truck is still slowly sliding over the hill thirty minutes after you have jumped out of it, it's steep.

A couple years ago, we had a similar situation.

One of the guys had a brand-new huge big Massey-Ferguson tractor.

He had been driving tractors of all kinds for fifty or more years.

This new one had all manner of silly "safety" requirements that had to be met before various operations could be performed; every lever and pedal had to be placed and held just so before the starter would engage and likewise for other operations.

The engine choked out and he was frantically trying to meet all the criteria for it to start while it and the loaded truck it was chained to were both sliding over the hill.

After it finally fired up and everyone was back on solid footing, he climbed down out of there and announced "these modern safety features are gonna get a bunch of us KILLED"

Needless to say, warranty or no, the next time we used that machine, all of that dangerous foolishness had been bypassed, wired around, and eliminated.