Farm accident with bad results.

Farm accident with bad results.

Please remember safety first. Do not get complacent with things you have run for years. Never let your guard down. Always be afraid of machinery like it is the first time you have run it. I new this man and he new better. But he must have got complacent and let his guard down and broke a few rules and just that quick look what happened. I posted a link to the story if it works. As I under stand it was a self perpelled corn chopper. No one knows just what happened or how and will never know.
Farm accident with bad results.

A couple of years ago a 50 year old farmer from around here decided to use his leg to kick down some bridged corn in the tank while it was running unloading. Its a shame because he knew better and lost his life for saving some time.

My neighbor's father was drilling fence post holes to build a hay trap. Apparently got off of the tractor to do something with the auger running. Somehow tangled with the auger and his leg was torn off & suffered a heart attack. He was dead when found, tractor & auger still running.

I just cannot get over people not shutting these things off, pulling the key or battery kill switch, no different than factory machinery with emergency kill switches, 'cept farm equipment does not have these features, its up to you, and is why people make such a bad decision, you have to be right out of your mind to get physically close to any kind of running equipment even remotely similar to this.

When I was a kid, my long time friend/neighbor dairy farmer whom was in full swing as a dairyman in those days had a retired farmer friend on the sileage blower, he chopped all the corn then, baled a lot of hay like 20,000 small squares, and I believe chopped alfalfa too, been a long time to remember, but he planted all of our ground then.

The retiree was loading a silo, got sucked in, caught or what have you, was cut in half at the waist if I recall, if not correct don't matter, it was fatal, and I am not sure what the heck happened, I've never spoke of it or asked him, neither has he, but a good friend of his mentioned it just to me at their 50th wedding anniversary, he lived down the road and was on the rescue squad, was at the scene, we just heard the sirens from our place, ugly situation, and a tragic loss, they were good friends.