My stepmother's renter lost a child when the cab door opened up and the boy fell out. A neighbor boy was injured badly when a 4020 ran over his leg and pelvis. My wife's brother had the tendons cut in the back of his leg by a sickle mower.
In a parade there's a fine line between who's legaly liable if someone falls off a tractor or float and gets hurt. Is it the driver? Or is it the parade organizers for not implementing safety rules.
With today's laws, the adult driver of the tractor could be possibly be charged with neglegence or child endangerment if the child riding on his tractor falls off and is hurt or killed even if it's his own child. Think of bearing the burden of killing your child and then being charged with a crime besides!
I used to ride on the tractor too, and so did my children and nobody was hurt, but my grandchildren will never ride on an open tractor on my farm and I even feel a little uneasy about them being in the cab. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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