Never gave it a thought when I was young, but I did a lot of plowing with a WD-45, and now when I think about it, what happens when the snap coupler gets worn enough to release at an in-opportune moment? Looks to me like the plow would flip right up against the seat.
I worked with a guy whose grandfather was killed by an evener pole, like you used to pull harrow sections behind. He was going to go through a gate, so he unhooked all the harrow sections and set them inside the fence. Then he unhooked one end of the evener pole and started to drag it through behind the tractor. The chain was connected to the pole about a foot or two from the end. The pole caught on a rock, or a root maybe, and it catapulted over like a big flyswatter and struck him in the head. They found him dead, still on the tractor, but stalled in the woods on the other side of the field.
You can get hurt or killed by the simplest things.
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