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This happened in Oklahoma, U.S.A in May 2005 when Ben Kerley was working as part of a custom combine crew running 5 machines. Only one month before the accident Ben had helped build the 36 foot headers the combines are running with. The one pictured had apparently only cut a few acres. According to Ben the combine pilot in question was a Ukrainian and while m

These pics have been sent in by Tom Rabbetts, who is a third year agricultural student at Reading University. This accident happned in New Zealand while he was on his gap year working for a contractor. Tom says he was driving too fast round a corner on a gravel road, which forms a dam on a small river. One badly placed wheel near the edge of the road meant there was no going back and the tractor rolled in.

These photos showing a Ford 7610 in a less than ideal situation have been sent in by Seamus Connell, from Newry, Northern Ireland. On his way back from leaving two bullocks to the mart, he was diving down the small gradient approaching the junction and put the brakes on to slow the tractor down. The tractor skidded and the front wheel caught the grass verge, the next thing he knew the tractor had spun in the road and turned over.

Gavin Henderson borrowed a tractor from his neighbour Robin Hosie to tow a fire engine that had got stuck in a flood. After the mission was complete, he headed home to find that floods he had come through on the outward journey had got worse. Regardless he proceeded anyway until the tractor took on water and stalled the engine. Next morning Robin phoned Gavin to see how he got on, to be told that he had abandoned the tractor a couple of miles away, he hadn’t expected the flooding to get quite so bad!

Reputation often precedes agricultural students, who are rightly or wrongly labelled as a bunch of bone-idle beer monsters who are guaranteed to break any piece of machinery they get on

This McCormick tractor came to a sudden stop at the bottom of a ditch when to driver's attention was diverted by a bird...

This little mishap occurred through a combination of a slippery bank and top heavy loader.

On a straight road that seems plenty wide enough its hard to imagine how this Case MX ended up where it did...?

This bizarre photo was sent into us from Kentucky, America, from our friends in Opti-crop.

These pics are sent into us from New Zealand where apparently tractors are often stored overnight with the bonnet open to deter birds from nesting in the engine bay, and, as a rule checking for nests in the morning is as normal as checking the oil level. This fire occurred due to the fact that the bonnet was not left open when the tractor was parked for the night and when it went to work the next morning the engine bay had not been checked. So after a short period of time the fire started and due to the location there was no hope of getting it extinguished. Our thanks to Sean Gallagher, from the Tractor Centre, Pukekohe, New Zealand, for putting the story straight.

It's good to see that this victim of misfortune can still see the funny side of his mishap, even if his Uncle and Grandfather look slightly less impressed.

This Massey Ferguson 135 survived an adventurous maneuver over the edge of a sand-pit.

A Reading university student highlights the perils of a wet beet harvest!!

You just know its going to take hours with a navvy shovel to reclaim all that grain!!!

This operator was just a little too keen to get on with the job ...

Those sink holes arrive when you least expect them.

It's boom AND bust for this unfortunate farmer

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