JUST GREAT: A NEW WAY THAT YOUR TRACTOR CAN KILL YOU! 💀⚠️☢️

A viewer wrote me telling me about his recent rollover. Very recent, as in earlier that day. He was telling me what happened and also what he planned to get for his tractor to prevent this from happening again. If videos on tractor safety seem redundant to you, they are! We have new viewers all the time so we preach the same things over and over. Let's go over some tractor safety basics again in today's video.

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This video is for entertainment purposes only. Good Works Tractors (Good Works Lawn & Power, LLC) cannot be held responsible for content found in any video. Always reference your owners manuals, use extreme caution, and proceed at your own risk.

[lynchcreekmuzzy]

Best advice i got from my tractor dealer (mechanic was helping load onto trailer) he said " Never get on a tractor without ALWAYS connecting your seatbelt" said he had just recently almost rolled a tractor and he was still spooked by it. People gotta realize that these axles Do Not articulate, so it is very easy to get off balance. Great video and reminder in safety!

[justanotherviewer]

Safety never takes a day off.
Glad there were no injuries.

[PawPaws_Place]

You are a good man always preaching the importance of practicing tractor safety. I would like to add that many compact tractors are delivered with the front tires set inside. I always say the first thing you should do is swap them around so they are set up for the widest stance. Keep up the good work. Great video.

[tomc]

Off topic. A neighbor suddenly passed away a year ago, due to a tragic accident. I didn't know the details, but when speaking about it to a friend I said, if I had to bet, there was a chainsaw, tractor or tree involved. Turned out he was killed when a tree he was trying to remove fell on him as he pulled it with his tractor. Be safe everyone.

[bruushbuster]

I bought a new Kubota LX2610 last spring. I watched countless video’s of people using grapples and using the loader moving gravel. In the build I had the tires loaded, wheel spacers and a ballast box added. I cut down several big trees, dug out stumps and spread several truckloads of sand and gravel. I’ve had no issues with a tire coming off the ground. People spend thousands of dollars on a tractor yet skimp on spending money on items to stabilize their equipment for safety’s sake.

[jacobpage]

New tractor owner here and this channel just in the last month since owning has become a saving grace. Honest people not only looking to make an honest Buck but to also guide you along the way. Dying breeds, such a shame.

[gotchagoing]

The NUMBER ONE THING I see newbees do with a frontend loader is filling up that bucket and raising it up almost all the way, so they can 'see' where they are going. My neighbor asked me about my 1025R/loader etc as he seen me spreading out loads of gravel. So he bought one, and loads of gravel too. I seen him loading up the bucket and raising it up to see where he is going. I went over to him and taught him a number of "what not to do" with his new tractor. I also told him to get his rear tires loaded. My uncle owned a dairy farm and I spent years over there with my cousins working that farm.(hardest job I ever loved). I was taught what to do, and what NOT to do when operating equipment.You want a real tippy tractor, try a Farmall(international) M with a row crop front end AND a FULL manure bucket. If that doesn't put the fear of God in you, nothing will.

[jamieedmunds]

Thanks Courtney. I try to catch you on here as much as I can

[virgilcresswell]

Great reminder Courtney. Never seen that John Deere safety machine before, 👍

[MacBailey]

First two hours I had my tractor and was using bucket to clear weeds under a shrub tree. Suddenly had a 20 ft dead walnut branch across me. Ripped my shirt sleeve by missed my head by inches. Did not see a grape vine snake up into the Walnut tree 20 feet away from where I was working.
I have also lifted the rear of my tractor (35hp) by trying to life a log with forks and the forks dug under a small root. Even with rear ballast.
Finally my neighbor was taking a full size backhoe up a fairly steep hill. The FRONT end lifted off the ground and started to spin sideways and of course you loose steering. I noticed a construction company working on power lines would scoop a bucket full of gravel when they were going up steep hills to keep the front end down. By the way I do have Bora 4.5 in spacers and I told them it was from a reference from your channel. Night and day difference on hills.

[Mike-hbpc]

Another area to be VERY CAUTIOUS of is water. Anytime a machine gets close to water, it just seems to be 'magnetized' and drawn right into it. Many people have been drowned due to falling into the water. Just thought I'd add my $0.02 to this conversation. If it saves one life, it's worth my time.

[josephzuchowski]

Good video! Thanks for putting that information out there for everyone to see.

[raymondrich]

Tractors in the woods with no cage is crazy. Ran a skidder most of my life, those vines will kill you the quickest by pulling trees or dead limbs on you.

[some_Phreak]

I don't have any contact with tractors, but safety for people I may have known facing this issue makes this important to me as well.

[bobnarrus]

Nice to see the Lions doing well!! As always, great safety PSA Courtney!! Thank you!!

[Digidoc]

I note that in many of the examples, the people are operating without ballast!
Backhoe or heavy hitch for loader work or a bucket full of rock for backhoe work.
NEVER attack hills SIDEWAYS; quickest way to flip !

[jasonhewitt]

I just bought a 2032r with a detachable loader. Not two days after getting my tractor, I used it to unload a 6ft finish mower off my flatbed trailer. The second I started to back up, the rear axle lifted and my whole tractor started rolling over to the left. I dropped the mower immediately and barely saved the tractor and myself in time. I’m going to get wheel spacers and rim guard asap. I’ve been running a 5055d with a 512 loader for a couple years, and I never had any trouble. I somehow didn’t realize that there’s a 4, 000lbs difference in tractors. Scary stuff, please be safe out there!

[jameschandler]

Farming is the most dangerous job in the U.S. You are right in that there are so many ways to die on a farm. Too many to list. Great video. My whole farm is on hillsides. I have 45 acres of forest in SE Ohio.

[jonathantaylor]

Truth is these little sub-compact tractors are tippy. I had a close call with mine, going down a hill will a full load of dirt in the FEL and not enough ballast, in 2wd. That wasn't smart. The rear wheels lost contact with the ground and the front wheels being in 2wd had no resistance. I got to the bottom of the hill in once piece, albeit much sooner than planed.

[jeremyj]

Good video. Just want to mention that swinging the backhoe to the uphill side is doable, and I’ve been doing it since I bought mine. If you leave in the boom lift drift pin and leave out the swing pin, all you do is reach behind you and bump the left lever with your right hand to swing the boom left or right. It doesn’t solve stability problems, but it makes a big difference. I’m in a similar situation as the subject here with very hilly property and running a small tractor work business with my 1025r that has me on new properties constantly. I also have loaded tires and wheel weights. Every little bit. For people constantly dealing with slopes, it’s an important thing to understand when you’re able to do it. Won’t apply to everyone though.