What, exactly, can one learn from such an experience? That one should have become a librarian instead - because it is less dangerous?
Regards,
That seems to be the idea of the article - that amateur farmers are volunteering for the “good judgement comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgement” problem.Being a librarian is less dangerous. Than a lot of things. I was raised in the suburbs but my parents took us “down home” to visit the family. One of the bad judgements I made was to choose the wrong vantage point to watch my uncle do some work. The machinery was noisy, and I never heard the truck behind me backing up to dump more rock into the crusher. And where I was standing was on the wrong side of the road to be seen by the driver of the truck backing up.
When the truck bumped me I thought instantly that someone was joking, pushing me - I was barely able to wiggle out of being pushed into a chute and having tons of rock dumped on me.
THAT woke me up, I can tell you! My uncle should have spotted that possibility and warned me, but he didn’t, and retrospectively I knew I should have known better.
That was industrial rather than agricultural, but ag is noted for danger. And especially for an operator of a tractor trying to pull something too hard, and having the rear wheels roll forward without movement of whatever the tractor is hitched to. The tractor then has to pitch over backward onto the operator. This can ruin your whole day.