Stupid Tractor Operator Tricks

There's always a lesson to be learned. Accidents happen. Just be safe and use common sense.

One of the saddest posts I read here at the board was the Farmer(GA) post. He loaned his 8N to his neighbor. An hour later the neighbors kid came to him screaming that his dad was pinned under the tractor. He was trying to pull a tree down that had fell and lodged into another tree. He was using the top link area to pull from instead of below the rear axle that your are suppose to pull from. The tractor flipped over onto him and killed him. The owner of the 8N had trouble dealing with it.

I told this story to my brother who had just acquired a new 4x 4 JD tractor. He never knew you weren't suppose to pull from a position about the rear axle to avoid a flip over.

Lessons learned all the time.

Tyman

I made this decision after I was using my 3-point scoop with a rope to the release lever. It suddenly occurred to me one day that when I needed to pull the release real hard, I'd tend to wrap the rope around my wrist for a better grip. I noticed that the extra rope was dangling from around my wrist to within an inch or two of the spinning PTO, and that became an INSTANT safety education. It was at that moment that I decided on my new PTO cap policy, and I've stuck with it ever since. And no, I never wrap the rope around any part of my body any more either.

I got the following in email from a friend awhile back:
Common sense is very uncommon.  Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of education.  Common sense is instinct, and enough is genius.  Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense:  no one thinks he need more of it than he already has.  Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
FWIW....don t. ....