After a long day of working in the fields, there’s nothing like hitting the lake for some relaxing fishing. Of course, you have to make sure you’re actually done working first, unlike whoever was in charge here. In actuality, it seems that someone wasn’t aware that the local watering hole was getting so close and couldn’t slow down in time to avoid it.
Don’t worry – there’s another tractor on the scene, and it looks like it’s in the process of pulling the unfortunate machine out of the water. Remember, even if you aren’t driving on the roads, always be aware of what’s around you – it will make everybody’s life much easier.
Getting Things Clean
There's no oopsie here, but there is a fun bit of history. What you're looking at is an old version of a street cleaner. Before we had the big contraptions that rinse, soap, and scrub the streets, some places used tractors with a big, whirling collection of brooms set up on the back to brush the street clean of dust and debris.
No doubt the streets didn't stay all that clean, but it's just like vacuuming – feels good to do, even if it doesn't last long. Based on how fast it looks like those brushes are going, we hope everybody knew not to be standing on the right side of the street, or they were going to get a face full of road.
How Does This Keep Happening?
Tractors are big, and they're heavy, and yet SOMEHOW, people are still finding ways to get them upside-down. You have to have very specific knowledge and skill to drive them, so you'd think that those in control would know how to keep them in control. Of course, there is always the possibility that the person behind the wheel was NOT in control.
But the person responsible here was going fast enough to get this tractor with its nose buried in the dirt. Is the driver still in there? No, likely not – there would probably be many more people milling around, as well as emergency personnel.
Untangle the Tractors
Look at all those huge tires. A tractor needs plenty of traction (that's where tractors get their name from) to haul heavy items like cultivators or plows, but even all those wheels don't do a thing to help when they leave the ground and fall into a pond.
How exactly everything landed the way it did is a mystery to us. Also a mystery to us is how the people standing at the edge of the picture are going to get it out. It looks like they could drive it out from what little we see of the pond, but with the wheels stuck, it's just not that simple.
That's Not Where a Tractor Goes
We aren't tractor experts, but even we can pick out a few problems here. What were they trying to plant down there, do you think? Seaweed? That's not even a sea. It feels like we shouldn't be the ones to have to point it out here, but tractors work best on flat land, not forty-five-degree grades straight into a creek.
At the very least, it seems like this one will be a little easier to pull out – as long as they can attach another tractor to the back of the plowing device the first tractor was pulling. Again, we aren't tractor experts, so maybe that's not the way they go about it in these situations, but it's better than some other ones we've seen.