Posted by donjr on January 06, 2014 at 16:31:30 from (71.246.65.200):
In Reply to: A 63 year old lesson posted by IaLeo on January 06, 2014 at 11:59:30:
I was teaching at a training session at the firehouse a few weeks ago and this subject came up. I had a uncle who had a stump of a hand- two partial finger and a thumb stump- after an encounter with a New Idea picker way back in the fifties. Easily described as speed. The rollers on a corn picker move about 9 MPH. If you have a good grip on something going into a picker, your hand will enter the work area at about 13 feet per second. It will take you at least 3/4 second to realize your hand is being pulled into the machine and release whatever it is that you're holding onto. If you WERE 4 feet above the rollers when you started, in 3/4 of a second, you are about 4' into the rollers when you start to release whatever you had a grip on. Do the math. You lose.....
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