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I rolled the neighbor's 350 Farmall, and loader on a silage pile the fall of 63, I was lucky there, I jumped over the low side.
No harm done to the tractor, or me.

A fourwheeler backwards, lucky again.

CJ7 when I was 19yo.
Have had two telehandlers rolled by employees.

Saw a skid loader do a 540deg rear roll. Dude pissed himself literally.

Case 580 C about 1981

Rolled a 4-wheeler with a full 25 gal sprayer over me into a washout. I thought I could save it from rolling and stayed on too long. Wound up in the bottom of the ditch with everything on top of me. Thankfully I had room to tip it over a little and scoot out from under it. Broke a couple ribs.

Walked half mile to my pickup and went and got the loader tractor to fish the rig out of the ditch. After all, didn't want to lose a full tank of Grazon & Remedy!

I nearly rolled mine backwards when unloading it from the previous trailer I had. The ramps were too steep off the deck. It rocked backward off the deck and just kept going... I swear, another inch or two, and it would have gone over backwards. My wife was watching and nearly pissed herself.

A week later, I had a new trailer with a dovetail, and much better deck angle.

Sold the other trailer.

Wife’s cousins was checking cattle on a four wheeler one evening. Never came home that night. They found him dead under the four wheeler next morning. He was in his late 60s.

In my youth I rolled an Allis Chalmers CA hauling silage. Thanks to the short fenders I was able to bail over the side, remember the rear wheel going past me and I was out of there. Bought a new exhaust and an oil change and it ran for many more years.

Nick

Buddy of mine put his semi on it's side, Coming down a steep hill. Claims his load sifted. He won't confirm or deny but I think something else shifted as his girlfriend was in the truck at the time. Been a fair bit of time since they had any alone time.

Multiple times. Have unbuckled my seat belt and fell out at least 3 times.

Scooted a wheeler out from underneath me going up a hill when I was probably 16. It came back down the hill after me. I was sliding backwards and held onto the right handle as long as I could and then at the last moment pushed it as hard as I could. I went tumbling. The wheeler hit, bounced up and rolled and repeated this a few times and fell just shy of where I ended up.

Tipped a skid loader backwards once and forwards many times. Never completed the roll.
Rolled a car one night when I was a freshman in college.
Tipped a truck on it's side once heading up to Malta years ago. Didn't completely roll that one either. But sure as heck totaled that rental pickup.
Had and employee fall asleep leaving SE Montana and run off the road. Dipshit overcorrected and I grabbed the steering wheel to stop him just a moment too late. We went shooting across the road and the tires grabbed. Rolled that bugger a few times. Pretty spectacular.

That's all I can think of right now.