We lifted a tractor to save Dad!

After sisters Hannah, 16, and Haylee, 14, arrived home from school, they were meant to go to their friend’s house.

But for some reason, they had a change of heart and decided to walk their dogs on their rural property.

Strolling along, they heard a chilling sound – their dad, Jeff Smith, 36, was screaming for help. He was pinned beneath his red tractor, which weighed more than 1300 kilos.

Jeff had been trying to remove a tree stump, when his muddy boot slipped off the clutch. The tractor overturned, and Jeff ended up trapped underneath it.

With the tractor’s steering wheel up against his chest, every breath was agony.

‘Every time I called for help it was like a constrictor,’ Jeff told news station KGW.

As Jeff yelled out, ‘Save me,’ the girls rushed to him and called Emergency.

Then, something incredible happened. Powered by love for their dad, the girls called on every bit of strength they had to lift the heavy vehicle.

Remarkably, they managed to raise the tractor just enough for Jeff to wriggle his torso out.

He could breathe, but was still pinned by his left arm.

The girls tried to dig away the dirt around him, but it was too compacted, so while Haylee waited with Jeff,

Hannah jumped on a fourwheeler and went to fetch a neighbour, who used his own tractor to free Jeff’s arm.

Ambo Nick Tyler said such examples of heroic strength in extraordinary situations were ‘few and far between’.

Despite his ordeal, Jeff just had a broken wrist and a few scrapes and bruises.

With the date being April 1, when the girls called their mum, she was convinced it was an April Fool’s prank.

The sisters say adrenaline may have temporarily given them superhero strength but it took its toll the next day.

‘I felt like an 80-year-old getting out of bed,’ Hannah told the Albany DemocratHerald newspaper. ●.