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jon f mn · Oct 22, 2020

I have some advice for all my friends here, don't drop a wagon hitch on your foot.

paul · Oct 22, 2020

I can add, don’t fall off a wagon onto the hitch and break a rib or two.

No fun watching harvest instead of participating.

Paul

Charlie M · Oct 22, 2020

You're years too late with that advise. LOL

valleview · Oct 22, 2020

Have a wagon that is the exact twin to yours. You can also trip over that little grease fitting that sticks up on the tongue. BTDT
Take care- Rand

ss55 · Oct 22, 2020

Is the running gear a Westendorf?

flying belgian · Oct 22, 2020

Yes and don't drop your glove in the truck box while loading it with corn. By the time you get down from the ladder and shut the auger off and then when the corn slides down from crawling in box, the glove will be gone.

Tom in TN · Oct 22, 2020

Many years ago I bought a house near Atlanta, GA. It had a large lot but the previous owners had let most of it get overgrown with small saplings, etc. I was clearing the lot by hand using an axe and a shovel. I was wearing tennis shoes. I bent a sapling over and held it down with my foot. I struck the "trunk" of the sapling with the axe. The axe slid down the trunk and hit my foot. The axe went through my tennis shoe and cut into my foot parallel to the big toe. My foot/shoe immediately turned red. I went into the house, sat on the side of the bathtub and took the shoe off expecting to have a loose toe in my sock. Fortunately, the toe was still attached to my foot. The axe head had just split the toe longitudinally, right beside the bone. A bunch of stiches and pain pills later, I finally healed up.

Don't ever:

1. wear tennis shoes to clear ground
2. bend saplings over to cut them with an axe
3. hold the saplings down with you foot

Tom in TN

Farmer Rock · Oct 22, 2020

I had a similar thing happen to me 2 years ago.I was digging holes for fruit trees,in early winter (not my idea,and they're all dead now) with a flat shovel,and since the ground was frozen,I was really putting the horsepower to the shovel trying to chop through the frost layer.long story short,the flat shovel went strait through my boot and went strait down to the bone of my toe.I couldn't even walk in the store to buy another pair of boots.

Rock

Steve@Advance · Oct 22, 2020

When I was a kid, probably 10-12 years old, I was trying to hand move dads boat.

It wasn't a big boat, but had a lot of tongue weight, all I could do to lift it.

When I got it up and went to move it, I needed to move it more to the side than roll it, pulled toward me and got tripped up, down it came as I was doing my best to get out from under it.

I didn't quite make it, raked down my thigh and by a miracle I got my leg out from under it!

I was wearing cut-off's, it scraped and bruised all the way to my knee.

Could have been a lot worse though!

larry@stinescorner · Oct 22, 2020

What is it with you CASE guys,,,one cuts his finger,one hurts his foot,,Whats goin on?You guys cant aFORD to get hurt,,,be careful out there!!!

Bruce from Can. · Oct 22, 2020

I have had the pleasure in the past. Lesson I have learned, straddling the wagon tongue helps to avoid this. Making sure the wagons steering wheels are straight, so when you pull out the pin, the wagon tongue doesn’t jump off the tractor draw bar under the force of the pressure from the wagon.. Best way yet, get someone else to hookup and unhook the wagon, only flaw here is the constant need to recruit new helpers, lol. Hope your foot recovers fast jon.

jacksun65 · Oct 22, 2020

What is it with wagons. I was repairing one last month and the dang tongue fell on the ends of my fingers. The middle one still bothers me a month later.

Gary Mitchell · Oct 22, 2020

Why is it that I smell dirty socks? gm

Doug Wi · Oct 22, 2020

I have bad hammer toes. Did the same thing you did Jon. Hitch landed on the 2nd toe. Hurt like the dickens but it flattened that hammer toe out very nicely. Haven't gotten up enough nerve to do the other one intentionally.

504 · Oct 22, 2020

I have gotten to the point I wear steel toes all of the time work or the home shop.

SVcummins · Oct 22, 2020

That looks painful. I dropped the cow ketcher on a semi on my foot in april after a long day on my feet it still hurts and my toes still don’t work right on that foot

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