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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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To: IYAS9YAS; fishtank

Also was the front wheels of the tractor “narrow or wide” spaced; i.e. narrow is wheels are not much more than the width of the tractor engine (close to the centerline); while wide is the front wheels are set far out from the centerline to parallel the rear wheels.


21 posted on 01/12/2018 7:55:15 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: fishtank
The tractor, which dated to the early 1960s, had no rollover protections.


22 posted on 01/12/2018 7:55:24 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: BlueLancer

The Fordson was known for killing many a farmer.


23 posted on 01/12/2018 8:00:19 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: deport

The first post of a thread doesn’t automatically cast URLs to links if you include no HTML in your post.

The rest of the posts will automatically do so as long as you have no HTML in your post.


24 posted on 01/12/2018 8:02:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Kirkwood
Seems like most everyone I knew had some kind of close call and learned from that.

What, exactly, can one learn from such an experience? That one should have become a librarian instead - because it is less dangerous?

Regards,

25 posted on 01/12/2018 8:03:04 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: fishtank

Had a few near-misses on the farm myself. There’s a lot of things that are just waiting to kill you if you give them the chance. Particularly near a cotton-picking machine— rows of fast-moving spinning spindles. They got a few folks.
A lot of farmers in my area, who had a propane tank on wheels for burning weeds along the ditch bank, would use that same tank to air up their tires when they were out in the field. Yes, you read that right! One guy was later doing some welding on his tractor, and the rear tire, filled with the perfect mix of oxygen and propane blew to pieces. One of the big rubber chunks flew off an hit him in the head. He lived, but his eyes were about a quarter inch apart for the rest of his life.


26 posted on 01/12/2018 8:05:19 AM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Kirkwood

Corn picker - cousin jumped off the tractor to pull something out while the picker was still running and of course got snagged. Lucky, only mangled his hand and arm up to the elbow but he got it out.

Cost him a few months hospital and rehab.

Those big openings in the hayloft have gotten more than one city kid playing.


27 posted on 01/12/2018 8:13:38 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
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...
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Front weights are helpful, but making sure the load is attached to the factory installed draw bar is the key. The center of pull must always remain below the rear axle or the front of the tractor will wrap around the drive axle and go over backwards when the drive wheels do not break traction first. It all happens in a split second.
28 posted on 01/12/2018 8:17:13 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Paladin2

Thanks a million. Blessed day to you also.


29 posted on 01/12/2018 8:21:09 AM PST by deport
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To: fishtank
While looking for a suitable tractor for my hobby farm, I developed a liking for 50's Ford 8N or NAA models.

A wiser man than I told me to forget those old pieces of junk; you're going to get hurt. Spend some money on a modern tractor.

I haven't looked at an old Ford since.
30 posted on 01/12/2018 8:22:40 AM PST by farming pharmer
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To: fishtank
If the farming goes badly, you can always fall back on a career as a professional baseball player.

From Wikipedia:

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed Three Finger or Miner, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century (known as the "dead-ball era"). Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth (April 17, 1888), Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand,and in the process gained a colorful nickname.

Great pitcher.

31 posted on 01/12/2018 8:22:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: vpintheak

It’s still safer to farm than to live in Chicago.

468 murders in Chicago in 2015.

“In 2015, 401 farmers and farm workers died from a work-related injury, resulting in a fatality rate of 19.2 deaths per 100,000 workers.”

Didn’t cite the links but it’s easily found on google.


32 posted on 01/12/2018 8:24:13 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: akalinin
Old Ford tractors are nice to look at.


33 posted on 01/12/2018 8:29:10 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: iontheball
The center of pull must always remain below the rear axle

Yes, that, too. I remember some footage of an old steam tractor versus a new tractor, they were in a pull-off.

The were hooked together at the hitch location on each, but the steam tractor was so much higher off the ground that it just pulled the load off the back of the diesel unit, leaving it with no weight over the rear wheels to get enough traction to do any good.

34 posted on 01/12/2018 8:29:28 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: vpintheak
When my wife and I retired, we started a beef cattle operation in rural Florida.

We have tractors and other machinery and equipment and big animals which can maim or kill if you don't watch what you are doing.

It can be dangerous living on a farm if you are not careful.

But it can be even more dangerous living in the big city if you ask me.

35 posted on 01/12/2018 8:30:23 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Rebelbase

farmersonly.com


36 posted on 01/12/2018 8:30:53 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Rebelbase

You said something about a tractor?


37 posted on 01/12/2018 8:32:59 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: fishtank

I recently bought a hobby farm, but I have the advantage of my father’s experience. I know, going in, that there are about a thousand ways to kill yourself on a farm, and you will encounter a good portion of them on any given day.

At the same time, you have a tremendous amount of freedom in how you do your work. You are your own Safety Department. There is nobody to look over your shoulder as you hop down from that running tractor or you lean over that Power Take Off.

The bucolic scenery and the seemingly peaceable environment conceal the fact that death can lurk around any corner. The only person who can keep you safe is yourself.


38 posted on 01/12/2018 8:33:31 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Rebelbase
Old Ford tractors are nice to look at.

They are! Especially when they come with expensive 'accessories'!
39 posted on 01/12/2018 8:33:59 AM PST by farming pharmer
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To: IYAS9YAS

My dad had a 55 gallon barrel of cement on the front of his tractor. I have an old 1966 CASE tractor and am very careful about how high on a hill I should go when brush hogging.
Situational awareness seems to be missing in some people.


40 posted on 01/12/2018 8:34:10 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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