A sliver of metal saved me.

[bigford]

this past winter my K.W. kept getting stuck on the ice at work.
I had to put the bumper pull pin in and get the loader to pull myself
out of my parking spot. I hooked the chain to the truck other end to the
loader. I pulled the slack out of the chain set the brakes on the loader jump
out and pop the brakes on the KW. I hopped back into the loader and start to pull
BANG!!!! the lock pin did not lock into the frame of the KW and sent all the parts flying
into the loader bucket. had I left the bucket up the chain would have gone into the
windshield all this a 2:30a.m. and half awake