Posted by PJH on January 06, 2014 at 21:11:24 from (50.40.240.26):
In Reply to: A 63 year old lesson posted by IaLeo on January 06, 2014 at 11:59:30:
On old man in our neighborhood educated all of us about the dangers of PTO driven machinery. He was picking corn in a little field way back away from civilization, when his picker choked up. He got off of his Ferguson and went back to correct the problem. It grabbed him and sucked his hand into the rollers. He said, "The tractor knew nothing about his problem". He was several miles from home, and not expected to show 'til suppertime, so he got out the new Case pocket knife that his son had recently gotten him for his 70th birthday. He carefully cut off all of the fingers that were caught in the picker, and then devoted his attention to unhooking the picker from the tractor, since he knew that he would have trouble getting the tractor/picker down the narrow forestry trails and back to his house. The bolt that he used for a hitch pin had required two wrenches to tighten, but it was in enough of a bind that one wrench successfully removed the nut, and he hammered the bolt out of the draw bar with the crescent wrench. He drove away, letting the PTO shaft hang on the tractor like a forgotten rag. His neighbor knew something was wrong when he saw him speed past his place without so much as a hand wave, and the neighbor jumped in his truck and ran him down, forcing him to stop and explain himself. The neighbor drove him to the hospital, and they stitched him up - minus the fingers that were still back in the picker. A few weeks later, old Bill was in the gas station where I worked, and I asked him if it was hard to cut off those fingers, thinking about the psychological aspect of the situation. "Naw", he said as he pulled the bandages back, "A good sharp knife - you just feel around a little - you can find the joints and off they'll come". I stepped over to the coal bucket and heaved up my breakfast.
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