Re: Re: Tractor Accident
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Posted by Lee(Loaders and N's)!!! on July 16, 1998 at 19:22:52:
In Reply to: Re: Tractor Accident posted by Wild Thing on July 15, 1998 at 05:05:18:
: : This past weekend, a 35 year old fellow who lived about a mile and a half from me was killed while working with his tractor. Apparently, he was trying to uproot a bush with a Ford 8N while his fiance watched. The tractor reared up and came right over on top of him and the steering wheel crushed his head. I went over to see the situation. I noticed that the tractor did not have a drawbar nor any implement attached. I was later told that he had the chain attached to the seat support bracket. I had figured from what I saw that it had been attached to the upper link of the three point hitch. In either case, it was too dang high above the axle. It was a reminder to me that you can never be too careful. Many folks have tractors these days who really have never worked with them. Some old-tractor people I have met fall into this category also - they like the old tractors, but don't know how to use them. When the opportunity arises to use their tractor for some purpose, they go to it. If yall know anybody like this, please teach them the basics about tractor safety. : I don't think experience is a necessary as common sense. I don't think country folk or city folk are any differently inclined. Common sense or the lack of it is more responsible for accidents than anything. I'm not denying experience has it's place, but consider this. It is usually only the people with common sense that get to be experienced people, while the people that lack common sense get to be dead people. Folks: Recently I almost killed myself on my 8N because the RIGHT front spindle
broke off and I lost control of my steering! Yes I have a Wagner Loader on
50 year old metal fatigued spindles! I just driven this tractor on the highway moments later,
when I was driving it across my field when the SPINDLE broke! Lesson here! If you have a LOADER and don't know the AGE or condition of your
front spindle's - REPLACE them! Your life is worth more than the cost of $180 for the
set!! The newer styles available are better quality and THICKER in the middle! Even if you DON'T have a loader I would replace them if you have ANY
reason to believe they are ORIGINAL! Their is a TREMNDOUS rotational force on these spindel every time
you turn that steering wheel! It's amasing they don't break more often! Maybe we should take a POLL here on the N BD?? Lee
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