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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I thought that was a Hoyt Clagwell... ; )
I remember a man who had one of his kids riding on a tractor while he was brush hogging. He hit a bump or rock and the kid fell off right in front of the spinning blades. The child never had a chance. We used to learn tractor safety in agriculture classes in High School. Unfortunately those classes are no longer taught.
We will need a new alphabet agency to inspect all non-BigAgra farms.
Hey man, no rollover protections is a small price to pay to be the envy of all the hipsters with your vintage tractor.
It also depends on where you hitch the load. Above the midline of the rear axle and you’re screwed. Below the midline is safer. It’s simple physics.
Conversely, pitcher Mark Fidrych died in a farming equipment accident.
Actually a chainsaw is probably the most dangerous thing anybody can own. Yes, you can flip a tractor, but if you slip and hit your leg with a chainsaw you can bleed out in two minutes.
>>That’s it. Too many deaths. Have to stop this.<<
UN Agenda 21 is working hard to drive everyone off the land and relocated to urban high-rise efficiency apartments such as those erected by the Communists throughout the old Soviet Union.
>> 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
Learn all about Agenda 21 and you will understand what these Communists have in mind.
Until 1927, no license was needed to build an airplane or fly it. That had not worked so well for pilots or mechanics.
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.
Does anyone else remember the story about the teenager in one of the Dakotas who lost both arms to farm machinery, managed to get back home, dial 911 with his face and then waited in the bathtub for help so he wouldn’t get his blood all over his folks’ floors?
Way back when I was a kid, I used to go to farm auctions with my Father. It did not take too long for me to notice that the majority of the farmers also at the auction were missing parts of their bodies. Sometime a whole arm. Other times a lower arm or hand. Many had lost one or more fingers. A patch over the eye was fairly common. All from farm accidents. Less often were missing legs.
Our safety man at the plant showed us a photo of someone who got tangled in a rotating shaft. It was bad! We only knew it was a human in clothing because one arm and hand still stuck out.
You keep your plow on. Problem fixed with common sense.
Yes, we must not allow people to do anything for themselves. We should all be wrapped in cocoons and fed a liquid diet through a tube so we can’t hurt ourselves.
“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.”
Exactly as I learned it in 1969 at age 14 in the Tractor Safety Certification course taught by the county extension office. It was brand new law/regulation at that time. When I read the article description of the accident, I knew this was the cause. The man killed was exactly my age so I’m sure this course was available to him, too. Perhaps familiarity kept him from following good safety practice. It certainly happens that way in industry, too.
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