Ok, in the realm of stuff that has left us speechless, this video below now ranks near the top. Why? What you are going to see is a series of tractor crash tests that are illustrating the effectiveness of a roll over protection system. Rather than sticking a dummy in the tractor, there’s an actual guy driving the thing and being tossed around like a rag doll! It looks like this may have been made in the 1970s (ish) and that would explain the lack of advanced technology to take the person out of the tractor but wow.
As if the guy’s toughness were not enough, he could be the bravest man to ever walk the Earth as well. Why? How about the part of this video where he rolls the tractor into a little body of water on purpose? If that thing fails, he is a dead man for sure. Hell, even when it works right the ride is terrible! We are thinking that the driver has to also be the inventor/designer, right? Who else would subject themselves to this level of madness on a whim? You’d have to be really short on cash to actually raise your hand and ask for this job, right?
We’ve seen a lot of things but this series of tractor crash tests caught on tape make take the cake!
Tractors are very unstable. Have turned over a couple myself. Old tricycle ones were much worse witness ban on three wheel ATVs. Without a low and heavy implement (bush hog mower) on the back, it will catch you out before u even expect there is a risk.
Think they were pranking this guy…or he was well paid.
kid at my bothers school in the late 70’s did work experience on a nearby farm..at 14, they showed him how to drive a tractor – hour later he rolled it and died…pity it didn’t have one of these on it
I have had a few scares on my 2N.