Posted by realolman on August 05, 2012 at 14:21:49 from (70.16.83.194):
In Reply to: Kids want to ride posted by SweetFeet on August 05, 2012 at 06:55:35:
SweetFeet said: (quoted from post at 06:55:35 08/05/12) Photo of husband giving our daughter a ride at a friend's place.
My husband always gave our kids a ride sitting on his lap and had one arm securely around them... one child at a time, driving SLOW on FLAT ground. *If more than one child, he put them inside a hog mover he had built for the back of our JD B... it had solid platform and 4 sides made of hog panel with angle iron framing.
We always taught our children that a tractor can do to a person, what a car does to a gopher on the road. Also that they should NEVER EVER go near a running machine of any type... not in front of it, not in back of it, nor approach it from the side because the operator may not see them and they could get run over.
You would teach your kids to swim at a young age, right? People drown everyday. You let them ride in your car or truck, right? People die in accidents or kids get backed over by vehicles coming out of the garage. Tractors are no different, you do the same thing... teach them young -- but teach them a healthy dose of repect for dangerous machines.
I dunno... that's an awfully tender looking priceless little girl there and an awful lot of mean looking old iron around her. In between 180 lbs of man an an ugly looking steering wheel. ... And a sickle bar mower behind. Can you really be sure that maybe that whole 80 year old front wheel assembly won't just break off? Do you really know it won't?
... You just don't know what might happen. Is it really worth the risk? I dunno. I used to always have bad thoughts that my kids might hide in the tall hay beside where someone was mowing, and think it was fun. I told them never to do that and to make sure any one driving a tractor around them knew where they were.
I know it's fun, and I know that probably nothing will happen, but good Lord, what if it did?
This post was edited by realolman at 14:26:42 08/05/12 2 times.
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