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Posted by Errin OH on October 21, 2005 at 17:10:42 from (205.188.117.6):
In Reply to: Near miss report: New tractor owners, read this. posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on October 21, 2005 at 15:46:11:
Haven't hear of to many stories like yours. The most common way is to start the tractor while standing next to it. Only to discover it is in gear. The following account was my first and only experance.... We were getting ready to bale hay. I wanted to get the wagons out, check tires and such. I directed the boy to fetch the NAA to move wagons. It was parked about 200' away pointing directly at an out building. I am not sure why, but when it fired up it startled me. Mostly because he had the throttle set to high. Anyway, I look over to see my son diving (falling) out of the way as the tractor takes off towards the building. I actually thought it got him at first (legs). To my disbelief, he gets up and JUMPS! back in front of it trying to stop it. I was bout 100' way in a dead run towards him. He managed to kill it before it hit the building (by inches) and I got there. My first thought was to complete the job the tractor had failed to do. I was speachless (Thank GOD he's OK). Put my arm around him quietly ask if he was OK (he was pretty shook up). Right then and there we agreed niether of us would ever start any tractors without siting on them. Being young he probably shook it off pretty quick, It set with me for days................
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