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More Hobby Farms Means More Maimed Farmers
Industrial Equipment News ^ | 11-29-2017 | Rick Callahan

Posted on 01/12/2018 7:33:25 AM PST by fishtank

More Hobby Farms Means More Maimed Farmers

The risk of serious injury or death has always been a part of farming.

CONTRIBUTOR: Rick Callahan

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Phil Jacobs was just a teenager when his parents bought a scenic Kentucky farm with hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a view of the Ohio River. Decades later, he still spent time there, maintaining the property as a second job and using its campsite for family getaways.

The Lawrenceburg, Indiana, anesthesiologist was removing dying ash trees in June 2015 when his tractor overturned as he was pulling a tree up a hill. He died instantly, at age 62. The tractor, which dated to the early 1960s, had no rollover protections.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: agenda21; agriculture; fake; fakenews; farming; hobbymillennials
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Followup to this:

"Latest Millennial dream job farming"

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1 posted on 01/12/2018 7:33:25 AM PST by fishtank
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To: fishtank

Why not make your like clickable?


2 posted on 01/12/2018 7:35:57 AM PST by deport
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To: deport

I guess I should spell check

like s/b link


3 posted on 01/12/2018 7:39:16 AM PST by deport
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To: deport

FR has posting nuances where a link is automatically clickable, given no html in the rest of the post.

It took me years to realize this.

Fix your own problems as “links” are copyable and can be dragged to the browzer URL field. Easy peazy.

Get a life.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3621799/posts


4 posted on 01/12/2018 7:40:49 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: fishtank

There are hundreds of freepers that pretend to know about modern US agriculture. Just start a discussion involving the carbon cycle, GMOs, pesticide use and they come out of the urban woodwork as experts.


5 posted on 01/12/2018 7:41:03 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: fishtank
Latest Millennial dream job farming

Little assist for ya to please the natives.

6 posted on 01/12/2018 7:41:26 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: fishtank
The Lawrenceburg, Indiana, anesthesiologist was removing dying ash trees in June 2015 when his tractor overturned as he was pulling a tree up a hill.

At the tender age of 8-years-old, I asked my farmer grandpa what the weights were for on the front of his John Deere... Shortly thereafter, I could have told this 63-year-old anesthesiologist why what he was doing could result in death...

7 posted on 01/12/2018 7:41:49 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: fishtank

That’s it. Too many deaths. Have to stop this.


8 posted on 01/12/2018 7:42:05 AM PST by Parmy
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To: fishtank

More farming is good. At least people are getting out of the urban hell-holes and getting their hands dirty.


9 posted on 01/12/2018 7:42:42 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: fishtank
Yeah, so what's the point of the article? Should we just leave farming to the "experts" because it's too dangerous?

"Who controls the food supply controls the people" - Henry Kissinger
10 posted on 01/12/2018 7:43:15 AM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Parmy

Yes, only vast corporate farms should be allowed. /s


11 posted on 01/12/2018 7:45:32 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: fishtank

Solution: Increase regulations to squeeze out all but the largest corporate farms. Problem solved.


12 posted on 01/12/2018 7:46:49 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: fishtank

I knew young farm kids who were killed or injured including a cousin and a close friend who were both killed as teens. Seems like most everyone I knew had some kind of close call and learned from that.


13 posted on 01/12/2018 7:47:15 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: vpintheak

When they out law tractors only out law farmers will have tractors.


14 posted on 01/12/2018 7:47:22 AM PST by spincaster (That doesent)
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To: Paladin2

Thanks.

!!!


15 posted on 01/12/2018 7:49:34 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: deport

As Paladin2 mentioned, it’s hit or miss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait


16 posted on 01/12/2018 7:50:33 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: deport

I might not have hit [Enter} after the link.


17 posted on 01/12/2018 7:51:17 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: spincaster

Something like that!


18 posted on 01/12/2018 7:51:27 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Parmy

Right! The nannies rushing in to stop a hobby that sometimes involves large machinery, accidents and snakebite. Sheesh. What a nation of babies we are becoming. Seems to me in all the history books and novels like the Little House on the Prairie, farming accidents are part and parcel of living in a big country, lol.


19 posted on 01/12/2018 7:51:40 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: deport

Also, the ding-dong link in the main post is clickable.


20 posted on 01/12/2018 7:51:58 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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