I Flipped a David Brown Once 0
I was cutting grass along the highways for the state–funnest summer job I ever had. I hit a drainage ditch that was completely obscured by honeysuckle with the right front wheel and the tractor went over to the right. I hit the dirt and headed into the soybeans on my belly.
Didn’t know I could move so fast on my belly.
My buddy, who was on a Ford, wrapped a chain around the frame and pulled the tractor back upright.
We continued cutting grass.
Decades ago, a John Deere tractor flipped over on Silas Fralin.
At the time his son Franklin Fralin, now 73, was in his early teens and working the family’s farm in Union Hall.
“It broke him all up and a rib went through his lung,” Fralin recalled. “I had to stay there after that. Daddy didn’t have but one lung. He didn’t have much breath.”
The Fralins, like many other row-crop farmers in Franklin County, often relied on the smaller Farmall tractors manufactured by International Harvester.
And Franklin Fralin’s restored 1949 Farmall Cub was among the antique tractors displayed Saturday during the seventh annual Southwest Virginia Antique Farm Days at the Franklin County Recreation Park.
