I think it was the branch pressing against my rib cage that stopped the lawn tractor from rolling over.
I was mowing along my driveway, there is a short steep slope along the drive. Its mowed regularly with the Ventrac 3000 articulated 4wd tractor and never had a problem. Until today. I didn't take the apples into account. We've got some large OLD apple trees scattered through our woods, well they have been dropping apples and the tractor tires crushed and were spinning on the apples, I lost traction and the tractor just started sliding down into the trees.
My left arm is scraped, but nothing serious. My rib cage on my left side, on the other hand is in some serious pain. I don't think anything is broken. I've got some good abrasions across my side, no doubt I'll have bruises later. Right now its Aleve and ICE PACKS for me.
I had a lot planned for the day, not sure how much I'll get done now!
On the bright side I finished dropping rocks over the top of the fence by my pool. We built a 5 to 6 foot wall adjacent to the swimming pool and then put a decorative aluminum "wrought iron" fence on the top of the wall. The fence is about 18" away from the wall because there is some geotextile fabric behind the wall going into the dirt. So we had to figure out what to do with that 18" of space, planting shallow rooted plants would be reasonable, but deep rooted plants wouldn't work because of the fabric. So we decided on decorative rock. There will be decorative plantings on the other side of the fence. Also moved a few more yards of topsoil into the back yard where we used to have a rock garden. That rock garden was reduced in size and will soon be planted with more grass and some flowers.
But damn, my side hurts
I was mowing along my driveway, there is a short steep slope along the drive. Its mowed regularly with the Ventrac 3000 articulated 4wd tractor and never had a problem. Until today. I didn't take the apples into account. We've got some large OLD apple trees scattered through our woods, well they have been dropping apples and the tractor tires crushed and were spinning on the apples, I lost traction and the tractor just started sliding down into the trees.
My left arm is scraped, but nothing serious. My rib cage on my left side, on the other hand is in some serious pain. I don't think anything is broken. I've got some good abrasions across my side, no doubt I'll have bruises later. Right now its Aleve and ICE PACKS for me.
I had a lot planned for the day, not sure how much I'll get done now!
On the bright side I finished dropping rocks over the top of the fence by my pool. We built a 5 to 6 foot wall adjacent to the swimming pool and then put a decorative aluminum "wrought iron" fence on the top of the wall. The fence is about 18" away from the wall because there is some geotextile fabric behind the wall going into the dirt. So we had to figure out what to do with that 18" of space, planting shallow rooted plants would be reasonable, but deep rooted plants wouldn't work because of the fabric. So we decided on decorative rock. There will be decorative plantings on the other side of the fence. Also moved a few more yards of topsoil into the back yard where we used to have a rock garden. That rock garden was reduced in size and will soon be planted with more grass and some flowers.
But damn, my side hurts