Saw a close one today

Tim in OR · Sep 12, 2009

Saw a close one today. I at the BIL's place helping him with a fence line that had a few too many tree's land on it last winter. We had the handwork part of the cleanup done, so he started up the borrowed Kabota with the brush hog on it and started hogging up against the fenceline. He had gotten most of it and was moving out a little, when he went under a tree that was growing horizontal from the side of a bank. His head cleared just fine, but he had forgotten about the ROPS. It snagged the tree, and stood that tractor on its rear end, and the hog. Took all the play out of the PTO driveline. It happened in a flash, but could have been real bad. He got it stopped and backed off the tree. This just shows how you have to be extra careful when using equipment different than what you are used too. His big ol case dosen't have ROPS, so he didn't even think about having to have extra room for it.
Lets be safe.
Tim in OR

bison · Sep 12, 2009

I was doing fence line clearing with a AC HD10 crawler with a baker blade(no ROP) one day,I must have nicked a dead tree with the corner of the blade.The tree stayed up right till I was beside it,then it fell over and landed right in my lap.
I was just fast enough to kill the engine before the forward motion of the cat pinned me solid in the seat. I sat there for a good hr before my son stopped by to lend a hand and found me,as stuck as a cow in the sqeeze.
Yes, an accident can happen in a split sec.

SJ · Sep 13, 2009

Thanks for the heads up,Im gonna be borrowing a tractor for bushogging with a rops.

AcFarmer89. · Sep 13, 2009

Something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJy3zfoT2U

Bob Kerr · Sep 14, 2009

Tractor show last weekend, saw two accidents first hand with no injurys. One a guy left his JD sitting overnight. Someone got on it and had it in gear with the clutch engaged while he had it parked there.. he started it without checking if it was in neutral and off it went with him hanging on the steering shaft trying to knock it out of gear. NOT good! It hit a trailer load of stuff in the sale area before someone ran up and killed the ign switch. The other one was a guy on a larger JD standard sat on the rope of a trip plow and when plow unhitched from hitting something, off flew the seat he was sitting on. He was just a few yards from a mucky water filled ditch about 8 ft deep but got it stopped ok. Both guys were lucky. I am just glad the insurance people didn't see it or show insurance would go way out of sight. Be careful out there folks! This old stuff we play or work with caused many old farmers I knew to loose fingers, hands, legs and lives. Grandpa used to say " The most important safety device in the world sits on your shoulders".

Saw a close one today

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