I got one of these, 1955 that I restored. Dangerous as all hell but gets the job done.
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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Called Sustainable Dense Urban Communities. Lib activists protest when we do that to hogs and chickens. FREE RANGE HUMANS Arise!
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Thats a ridiculous bunch. Right up there with those who think welfare subsidised monoculture bank slavery of the last 50 years is modern or those who insult anyone without 1000 acres and 1000 cows as a hobby farmer necause they coulnt figure out how to make more with less.
I own a 1954 Allis-Chalmers WD45. I mow my yard with it. I have all of my limbs and fingers. Grew up on a farm. Started driving tractors when I was 8. I know a lot of farmers who have never lost body parts.
Roll over protection? This article’s author is a snowflake.
The best rollover protection is your brain. Too bad few heed it.
Agreed!
Roll over protection is for people who do stupid things they should not have done and then protect the manufacturer from the inevitable lawsuit. IF you are using your loader it should have some type of counterweight in the back.
It is similar to the circuit that disengages my John Deere when you get off the seat or the PTO when you put it in reverse. Some dumb A$$ probably mowed over their kid and then filed a law suit against John Deere.
My oldest brother ran up to my dad while dad was cutting grass with the Cub Cadet lawn tractor in 1968. My 5 year old brother stuck his foot under the deck on the side where the discharge was. His foot was cut badly. Hospital, stiches, etc. Thankfully, no long term damage. Now all mower decks have a cover that protects against this.
Many machines have been modified over the years to protect us from doing stupid things. Everyone(including me) that has used machinery is guilty. Accidents happen.
I do not remember that story. However, I do remember the story of a logger who cut his leg with a chainsaw. He used his own belt to tie a tourniquet and drove himself to the hospital.
For every ONE story like that there are hundreds where he didn’t make it.
I had similar thoughts to yours as I read this article.
There was no attempt to hide the agenda.
I grew up on a farm. Dad’s side of the family has been farming since forever.
None of my people were ever killed or maimed on the farm, but I’ve known a good number who have been over the years.
Chlorine is good for the gene pool no matter where it comes from.
We need to address this terrible menace of farming. If we can save just ONE life it will be worth it! /s
My wife’s uncle was killed by his own tractor.
He apparently hit a bump and was thrown off and then run over.
He was way out in a field far from the house, and the only clue the family had was when the driverless tractor busted through a fence and went into their swimming pool.
Then they went out looking and found battered his body.
I always wondered if that was why his kids were messed up and not well adjusted. Turns out no, it was just the icing on that dysfunctional family cake.
This occurred in Wise County, north of Fort Worth.
Farming is something that everyone should learn to do. Yeah it’s dangerous. Life is dangerous. If we let the “experts” do ALL the dangerous parts of life for us, we become dependent servants to them.
No thanks.
You Gotta be dang quick on the clutch. I can’t remember how many times I’ve had a tractor rare up on a steep incline.
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It’s a pretty scary feeling when that front end starts to lift. I had that happen in HS using the school’s FFA tractor rototilling a person’s garden.
Yeah, I was trying too hard to explain to the person complaining (at the top of this thread.)
My family hasnt lost anyone directly to the farm in living memory either but there was a farm that scored 1 assist.
The story goes that grandpa had climbed to the top of the silo and fell off. They were sure he was dead and ran over but he got up and said he was fine and went back to work. A couple of days later his back started to hurt. As time went by it became more painful and he could barely move so he went to the DR.
"Just a pinched nerve," says the DR and sets grandpa up for surgery. The drunken surgeon slashed grandpas aorta.
Whats that statistic on doctors?
I got one of these, 1955 that I restored. Dangerous as all hell but gets the job done.
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