Nice parking method...

E.T

Now is this some method for parking tractor into smallest possible space? :p

[url]http://www.kladblog.com/content/html/200801/tractor.asp[/url]

At least you can't get wheelbase any smaller than that! :D:D

Biggles

They broke its neck, the poor thing.

Chaosed

Looks gutted too.
Will they stuff it for some holiday?

E.T

[QUOTE=Biggles;170184]They broke its neck[/QUOTE]You think so?
[url]http://www.pottupellossa.fi/galleria/displayimage.php?pos=-12869[/url]

I think this still wins in parking space efficiency
[url]http://www.pottupellossa.fi/galleria/displayimage.php?pos=-5269[/url]

BTW, Sometimes [url=http://www.pottupellossa.fi/galleria/displayimage.php?pos=-11293]thick just isn't thick enough[/url]

Freejack

[QUOTE=Biggles;170184]They broke its neck, the poor thing.[/QUOTE]

I'm trying to figure how they did it too. That tractor must have been moving a quite a speed when the loader on the front lodged itself into the ground. In the US (which is the location judging by the pickups in the background), most ag equipment has a max speed of 20 mph, so the worst you'd do is tear the loader but a bit. I'm not sure if the tractor was on some sort of trailer or what.

Having spend a good portion of my life around heavy farm equipment, I am unable to figure out how they managed to roll that tractor up in a nice little ball.

Jake

RedAssAg05

Caption in this link says 18mph

[url]http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/weird/weird944.shtml[/url]

E.T

[QUOTE=Freejack;170190]Having spend a good portion of my life around heavy farm equipment, I am unable to figure out how they managed to roll that tractor up in a nice little ball.[/QUOTE]Three words: too, little, steel
That plastic fuel tank doesn't exactly stregthen body and then add trailer possibly attached so that it didn't fell off and prevented tractor from flipping over so it ended to wrapped up solution.

That Pottupellossa ("in potato field") site had pictures of tractor in very similar situation, it had been hauling trailer and loader had lifting spikes. But instead of being compressed it had done only somersault ending on its back. I can't find those so looks like they've been removed.
This one went only off road:
[url]http://www.pottupellossa.fi/galleria/displayimage.php?pos=-2613[/url]

Freejack

I'm not sure about the too little steel part, most of these tractors rely on a combination of the cast iron in the engine/transmission and large mild steel plates for the frame, they tend to be pretty beefy in that regard.

I think you are right about being hooked to the wagon though. Had it been the standard light-duty farm wagon, the tractor would rolled either end-over, or at least to the side, taking the wagon with it. But that trailer looks to be a very substaintial unit, holding the rear of the tractor down or more likely with the momentem it had, continued to push the rear of the tractor forward. judging by the construction, there is a very good chance the trailer weighs a significant portion of the tractor itself.

Jake

shadow boxer

Thats a New Holland, just like my Uncles 'little tractor'. The way the bucket attaches to the frame is the reason for the fold up. they weld a fairly substantial plate to the chassis rails on each side to take the tonne or so of bucket load. As a result, you end up with a relative weakness about where the fold in this lil' tractor is. In additon, you can see the upright posts to mount the bucket have given the forward momentum of the tractor a nice force multiplying, lever to bend the chassis some more. I can attest to this unit being able to do 30kph easily. I'd just be thankful for the rake attachment, it looks like it was the only thing that prevented a rollover.

I'd say the wagon has nothing to do with the accident. It's probably there to begin the recovery of the vehicle. I'd say thew driver was in road gear (C-6), flogging along, with his bucket being carried pretty low, (it needs to be down a fair bit for good forward vision), hit a pothole, or nudged his bucket control lever (which is scarily, very easy to do). Bucket digs in, pulls the loader arm right under the tractor, pulls the loader posts and breaks the poor lil dears back. Physics is against you in a nasty little cascade..:)

E.T

[QUOTE=Freejack;170194]judging by the construction, there is a very good chance the trailer weighs a significant portion of the tractor itself.[/QUOTE]Make it same as that of tractor, looks to be made from truck's trailer.
[QUOTE=shadow boxer;170195]The way the bucket attaches to the frame is the reason for the fold up. they weld a fairly substantial plate to the chassis rails on each side to take the tonne or so of bucket load.
I can attest to this unit being able to do 30kph easily.[/QUOTE]So not enough steel, here loaders have commonly support going also directly to rear axle.
Slow... here all normal tractors go 40kph.
IIRC for some reason EU wasn't very fond of that. (or about normal 60 ton trucks)

[quote]I'd say the wagon has nothing to do with the accident. It's probably there to begin the recovery of the vehicle.[/QUOTE]I don't think so, drawbar is toward this tractor...
And if there wasn't something preventing tractor's rear from rising while front was already doing somersault I don't see any reason for whole tractor not doing the same.

This one happened from full speed and tractor didn't take any major damage, unlike loader which bent "slightly"...
[url]http://www.pottupellossa.fi/galleria/displayimage.php?pos=-2613[/url]
Also in that other case, whose pictures don't seem to be in gallery anymore, whole tractor with loader went directly over and lifting spikes in loader ended to sticking above trailer's drawbar which rose above tractor's front. Not much any damages to anything... "composition" was just crazy looking with front of trailer trying to climb above bottom front of tractor.