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BobinKY

12-05-2005 17:26:48




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There are a lot of us guys and gals here who are just coming back to farming and equipment usage and could use some guidance from the experienced folks about equipment usage and safety issues. Since it is snowing on a bunch of you, how about sharing some of your horror stories in the hope that we can learn some tidbits of safety and caution.




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Brad Wright of MO

01-14-2006 09:15:18




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
I had a good friend who was unloading big bales from a trailer. he was putting the bales in rows right by each other. When he had placed the bale down he was backing out and got his back tire to close to the other row. his tire ran up on the bale and the tractor flipped over. He died. Many accidents happen simpily because you dont pay attention. Thats the best you can do to help avoid accidents. Just pay attention.

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river rat redneck

12-06-2005 16:41:58




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
last nov 1st my brother was taking down a transport grain auger to repair top bearing it colapsed on him killing him found my brother at 3am left wife and 6yr old son and 12yr old daughter him and i were very close tears come to me as i relay this to you first time i ever talked on computer if it will keep just one from getting hurt or worse then this message will be a success accident no fault of his picture of him pinned under auger never leave god bless you all RR

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jbw

12-06-2005 15:49:40




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
i was standing next to a truck when the trailer got in the power lines. It was arcing to the ground a foot up the tires. we got the box untangled and backed out than a tire blew off the trailer rim and all right over the wedges. it missed me by a foot max and i didnt even see it come off the trailer and i was looking right at it. it flew off a pile of dirt and out into the feild about fifty feet. i couldnt here very good for a while.

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Don BC

12-06-2005 15:41:38




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
Years ago I had an aquaintance named Ace because he lost an arm in a farm accident. He was helping his father by grinding grain with a belt driven feed grinder. He jumped on the seat of the tractor to stop the grinder but before he could touch the clutch he was yanked over backwards by his coat. He had on a long rain coat and it dropped down on the stub shaft of the spinning PTO. I believe that the shield over the shaft was missing. He got one arm out of the coat but the other arm got wound up with the coat. He was able to reach an axe that leaning against the back of the tractor and chop off his arm.

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Zonie

12-06-2005 13:18:36




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
2 years ago I was run over by a 12,000Lb tractor.
I was attemping to start it while standing on the ground behind the rear tires. I "always" leave my tractors in neutral when I park them so i didn't even bother to check it. needless to say I didn't leave it in neutral that time, I had left it in reverse and it sucked me under in a fraction of a second, no time to react.
I was just about killed, completely shattered one of my vertibrea and fractured 3 others, broke most of my ribs on the left side, tore all the ligaments loose in my left knee and broke my left leg in 3 places
now I never start the tractor while I'm on the ground, also I ALWAYS make sure the trans mission is in neutral when ever I start the engine.
I'm permanently disabled with Rods in my back and leg.

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BCnT

12-06-2005 05:32:21




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
luckily i've been spared close calls but my grandfather was shredding and a old piece of barb wire got caught in blade and somehow came up and snagged his ankle...he reached over and turned key off before it drug him completely under...somebody was definitly watchin over him that day...to this day i still walk pastures with a rake before i shred.



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D13

12-06-2005 03:11:42




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
Oliver 1355 (Fiat style), 54HP, handily works a 3-16 trailer plow, but a little light on traction in the muck. Decided to mount my dad's 3-16 3 point plow and ditch out the tight spots in the corners of the field. Dropped the plow, went about 4 feet until all 3 bottoms were in good, then the nose came up. Clutched, liftget the plow, realized I needed about 500# of nose weight. Headed back to the barn, started up a hill, and up she went again. Clutched, let it rool back on the flat, then backed up the hill. Found that 50# on the plow would lift the front of the tractor, it was so well balanced. Never will I put that plow on that tractor again.

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D17JIM

12-06-2005 02:39:24




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
About 30 years ago I was unloading feed into feeders with a feed grinder on a 44MH. As the grinder got empty I reached from the ground to push in the clutch and shut the pto off. The gaurd was inplace but my t-shirt caught in the pto coupler and wound it up. Some how (God's grace only) I survived after the pto took off the shirt and striped my blue jeans by tearing them down the zipper and both inseams and leaving me standing on the other side of the pto shaft. I think my finger prints are still on that seat!!!! All I had on was a cap socks and my boots. Again only God's grace. Carful is a big word around any equipment !!

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J.C. IN AZ.

12-09-2005 21:43:41




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to D17JIM, 12-06-2005 02:39:24  
My Story is similar to D17Jim, I was unloading Corn Silage with a new Unloading Box,Don't remember the name of it now, It was made in Wisc.It had a High front on it and I wanted to see how the Beaters were working so I stepped up on the Tongue with my right foot and next thing I knew I was on the ground with nothing but my left sock and Shoe, My Jockey Shorts and the Collar and two Shirt Sleeves of my T-Shirt on.When they had put the PTO Shaft on the Gear Box they left the Roll Pin sticking out about a 1/4" and my Pants Leg touched it just enough to get wound around the U-Joint and away I went. I was literally in shock for 2 Days.

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old

12-05-2005 21:30:25




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
Seen a number of them over the years. Last year a friends cousin almost flipped an 8N over by brush hogging long a hill side. The only thing that saved him was the fact that the tractor slide side ways till the rear wheel hooked a tree and spun him and the tractor 180 degrees. He did end up in the hospital with a busted up knee since his knee was where the tree ended up at. Took 2 days and a lot of chain and a few come-a-longs to get it unhooked from the tree with out it rolling over.

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730 virgil

12-05-2005 20:37:05




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
i rode on school bus with neighbor kid 4 or 5 years than i . he borrowed another neighbors pto post hole digger . a piece of wire got caught in auger
he tried to pull wire free and pulled into auger
and was killed by it



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Texas Denny

12-05-2005 19:00:30




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 Re: Let's hear your horror stories in reply to BobinKY, 12-05-2005 17:26:48  
I'm as careless as they come.

One day I was digging a post hole with my D-17. I hadn't noticed that the safety cover for the PTO had slid down on the PTO exposing nearly half its length. The uncovered portion was coated with a sticky grease. I put my hands on the back bar of the digger to rock it side to side (always helps in digging). I was wearing a T-Shirt and it was out of my pants. A gust of wind blew the bottom of the t-shirt against the bottom of the PTO shaft. It promptly started wrapping up. I had a good hold of the back bar, my feet were planted and I just held on. The PTO ripped the shirt completely off - not a thread left. I had some significant burns (like rope burns) from the t-shirt pulling apart but otherwise I was fine. My wife was watching from about 10 feet away. She barely got her mouth open to scream and it was all over. She cried for about an hour even though I was fine.

My moral - use pto shields. If they aren't there, don't use the equipment. Don't wear loose fitting clothing around machinery.

A month later, another friend had exactly the same thing happen to him (he didn't know about my accident). He was lucky as well with no serieous injury.

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