Re: Whats your close call on a tractor?

Posted by The Red on December 07, 1999 at 13:46:53 from (12.75.196.122):

In Reply to: Whats your close call on a tractor? posted by Highboyford on December 05, 1999 at 16:42:04:

5 years ago during the 1992 harvest, we used my Farmall H on the field augur to load soybeans in the semi. The voltage regulator points got stuck and ran the battery down. The wife and 2 year old daughter were out in the field. So I took the neighbor's M and chained it to the H to give it a pull. I unhooked the augur drive shaft from the PTO and had wife, with child in her lap (you can see this one already?) drive the H while I pulled with the M. Now the H had a New Idea front end loader on it, so I tried to chain underneath it so it would stay up as I pulled. Well I only pulled about 50 feet and the H fired up just fine and I stopped pulling. However during the 10 second pull, a loader fork caught in the ground and twisted the assembly badly. That pull could have resulted in a death of a young child had something gone wrong.

Nobody was hurt but you could see I did not have the brains turned on that day. I wanted to pass this on to future fathers with young kids. Keep them away from working farm equipment. I learned my lesson that day.

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